 | Visit to Salisbury, Old Sarum, and Stonehenge
2009-03-29, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: eab396 | | So we started yesterday by getting on a bus at around 9. It was a relatively short ride to Salisbury, only about an hour and a half... maybe less. We got to Salisbury and immediately I notice how gree... |
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| My first two days in England
2009-03-27, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: eab396 | | Alright, so instead of emailing individual people a million times telling the same story, I decided to only tell it once and send it to everyone, much easier for me in any rate. The pictures coincide ... |
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 | Love and science
2009-02-04, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | In Oxford I went to the museum of the history of science, and that's where I fell in love.
The object of my sudden passion was a circular golden disc, with mysterious curved layers and curling embe... |
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 | Flight Home/Wrap-up
2008-06-24, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | So today I woke up at like seven am and walked to the bus stop. It sucked because I had all that luggage. It was pretty standard from there. I flew home. I mean, I had to do a lot of stuff in betw... |
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 | Last Full Day
2008-06-23, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | This morning we woke up a little later than we planned, but we forgot about the one hour time change. It didn’t matter though. We went out and got on the first tram available. There was this weird ... |
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 | 21st Birthday
2008-06-20, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today I woke up and did laundry. Because I had a a ton of laundry to do. I was being responsible. Today was one of my last full days in Oxford because of the trips to Stonehenge and Amsterdam that ... |
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 | Lazy Sunday
2008-06-15, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | I'll be honest. I'm writing this a little late, and I can't really remember what we did Sunday. It was pretty uneventful I'm sure. I think I just read Much Ado About Nothing. However, I did join s... |
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| Much Ado About Nothing
2008-06-16, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today we saw Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in the Oxford Castle Yard. It was pretty cool because it was outside and there were seats on three sides of the stage only like a few rows back. I h... |
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| Tuesday: Work all Day
2008-06-17, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | So I've gotten pretty good at this writing before the day of sort of thing. It's not as bad here, because the paper's are more frequent so they don't expect the same thing as in America. But I had t... |
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 | Last Tutorial and New College Dinner
2008-06-18, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today was my last tutorial. I had worked on my paper all night, and woke up at nine to get to the OSAP office to print it out. It was my only one-on-one tutorial and I think it went pretty well. I ... |
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| Jericho Street Fair
2008-06-14, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today Andy and I woke up to get some Pizza Hut buffet. I mean, free refills, you know? But guess what. No buffet on the weekends. Bummer. So we just had to order pizza. But it was still good. I... |
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| "Damn Natalie, You A Crazy Chick!"
2008-06-12, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today we got to go to the Bodleian library to learn about printing. Exciting, right? No! But we also got to see the first folio, which is like the first printing of Shakespeare’s complete works. It’... |
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| And We Were Like "What the!..."
2008-06-11, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today was my third tutorial. I got my paper done on time and turned it in. Our tutor didn’t have our last papers done, so I was pretty disappointed. I almost threw my chair through his window. Jus... |
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| King Lear
2008-06-10, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today I worked on my paper for tomorrow's tutorial. I have to write about King Lear. It's supposed to be one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, but I wasn't really that impressed with it. I think Ham... |
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| Dinner Fiasco!
2008-06-06, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | I’m writing this several days after the fact, but I’m pretty sure Andy and I ate at Pizza Hut for lunch. We were too late getting the buffet, but don’t worry, there were some good deals. Our waitres... |
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 | Skinny Jeans
2008-06-05, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today Andy and I went around town looking for some books for his tutorial. We checked Waterstone, Borders, and even some other bookstore that I forget the name of. No luck. Finally we went to this ... |
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 | Leaving for India tomorrow...
2008-06-09, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: Kathryn | | Hi all,
You've received this email because I've subscribed you to the travel journal that I will be using while i'm in India. If you'd rather not see what i've been getting up to (or i've got the w... |
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| Second Tutorial
2008-06-04, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today was the second tutorial where I turned in an essay. It went pretty well. I didn’t enjoy Richard III nearly as much as the first two we read, but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I was expecting. Ev... |
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| Work Time
2008-06-03, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today I put off a bunch of stuff I have to do for tomorrow, so I read Richard III all day and then wrote my essay. It's pretty good I think, but I haven't seen the grade from my first one yet so I re... |
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| Black Kids
2008-06-02, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | So today was pretty awesome because I got to see an American band in England. The group was called Black Kids and they're relatively new. In fact, they don't even have a full album out yet. We boug... |
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| Saturday
2008-05-31, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today I woke up and got a haircut. I went to this barber down the street, and had to make an appointment to come back at noon. So I did. When I came back, this girl about my age cut my hair. I th... |
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 | First Essay Due
2008-05-30, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today was the tutorial where our essays were due. I worked pretty hard on mine, and actually focused on less than I thought. However, I think that makes for a more distinct and pointed paper, so ho... |
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| Spring Awakening
2008-05-29, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today I woke up and started working on my essay. I actually got more done than I thought, and it was a little simpler than I had planned on as well. I compared the father-daughter relationships in ... |
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| First Lecture
2008-05-27, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | I didn’t do too much today, but we did have our first lecture. It was at ten am on “Shakespeare and his theatre.” It was okay. I mean, I took some notes and stuff, so that’s cool. After that, we ... |
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| Monday- Bank Holiday
2008-05-26, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Not too much happened today, but I’ll fill you in on what did happen just because I’m well aware that you’re dying to know. I woke up to go to that parade but it was raining and I was tired and I di... |
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| Mystery Solved!
2008-05-26, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | I just wanted everyone to know that my house apparently isn't haunted (though there really is no conclusive evidence one way or the other) because Marcus accidentally (?) took my book and I just got i... |
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| Ghosts are Book-Nappers
2008-05-25, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: bradleywk | | Today was a pretty easy day. I woke up and ordered tickets online for Spring Awakening. Then we went out to the bookstore and to look for this poster store. We never found it. However, I did see ... |
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| Regatta
2008-05-24, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: BradleyWK | | Today we went to the regatta, which is a huge deal in Oxford. There are men’s and women’s teams from every college that compete. Boathouses line the river and members of those colleges cheer their ... |
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| First Tutorial
2008-05-23, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: BradleyWK | | Today I had my first meeting with my tutor. It was actually really great. I would say it was better than I expected, but I truly didn’t know what to expect. He’s a lot younger than I thought and he... |
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| Clubbin'
2008-05-22, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: BradleyWK | | Today we attended more orientation lectures, although I have to admit they were pretty boring. The first one was on how people in England (and everywhere else) think differently from Americans. For ... |
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 | Orientation Day I
2008-05-21, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: BradleyWK | | Today we had our first orientation lectures. They were pretty good, the head guy gave us a bit of English history and he was also kind of funny. He really doesn’t like America’s method of education.... |
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| First Day
2008-05-20, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: BradleyWK | | So today is my first day in Oxford. I arrived at around eight am I guess, but we landed in London at like 6:30. I had to do some crazy stuff to find a bus to Oxford. Okay, so it wasn’t that crazy, ... |
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 | goodbye england!
2008-02-17, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: letlozz | | I thought id write a 'before I go' message, firstly cos ive not been having much luck with these travel blog things so far, as I keep starting them and not being able to get into them, and secondly ju... |
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 | August 15, 2007
2007-08-15, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | Hey all,
This is going to be really short because we are all studying hard for our finals. We have one tomorrow and one of friday. Just wanted to let you all know that I have finally uploaded all o... |
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 | August 12, 2007
2007-08-12, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | So I have got to tell you all that the past few days have been packed full of amazing experiences, of which I will now try to explain.
On Friday, our program had the annual party. Each year they th... |
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 | keeping off the grass in oxford
2007-08-08, oxford, United Kingdom. By: kjkerr | | Imagine the scene.... enormous grand buildings - some vast in scale - built from stone in who knows when, long facades and suddenly an ornate door way appears, usually under an ornate arch, and the do... |
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| well here we are!
2007-08-07, oxford, United Kingdom. By: kjkerr | | Hello from sunny England!! sorry it's taken little while to get this page up and running but here we go! After taking off from Christchurch and skipping up to Auckland we boarded the 747 bound for Ho... |
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 | August 9, 2007
2007-08-09, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | So, were back in Oxford now, have been since Sunday, just havent wrote a new update. Jen, Jay, and I just got back from having a drink at a local cocktail bar and then eating a kebab. (kebab=ali baba ... |
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| Tuesday July 31st, 2007
2007-07-31, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | Hey guys, sorry it has been a while. Not too much to type everyday because it is basically the same thing over and over. I will probably just make an update every few days or so.
Last Thursday, Nik... |
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| July 25, 2007 - Walking Tour
2007-07-25, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | Today after class or event was a walking tour of Oxford. One of our student admins took groups of us around town, explaining some of the history of Oxford.
Our college, Jesus College, was started ... |
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 | July 24, 2007
2007-07-24, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | Last nights play that we attended, Bedroom Farce, was very funny. It was a well directed play with some good acting. Everyone seemed to enjoy it.
Today, we got up for class, ate some lunch, and th... |
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 | Hangin out in Oxford
2007-07-24, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: kkulbis | | From now until August 4, I will be hanging out in Oxford, England. While Alex finishes his last two weeks of his program, I will be exploring the town, jogging through the parks, reading the new Harr... |
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| July 23, 2007
2007-07-23, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | Well, we started classes this morning. I got home last night and showered, which is a whole experience in itself. The showers in my staircase are not very personal at all. I know its a dorm, but at UN... |
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 | Arriving in the UK
2007-07-22, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: abanzho1 | | Yesterday morning we all got up at the but crack of dawn, 4:00 a.m., and got on the metro headed to the airport. We had some trouble buying the tickets at the metro though. I will never again complain... |
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 | Ey up, y'all righ?
2007-04-24, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: Lisa | | Hi everybody,
A brief hello from me, now in the UK. I'm writing from the home of Rosemary and Merlin Smith - family friends (and I think somewhat distant relations) from years back, and Mum, Dad a... |
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 | YAY ENGLAND YAY
2006-08-16, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: tonita | | A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to be able to go to England for a weekend, having found MAD cheap tickets on Ryanair. It was quite a trip- I had to take a hour-long bus (or train) to the airport, f... |
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 | The Big Freeze (Oxford, UK)
2006-11-04, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: hrd1977 | | So, we're back and here's our new address:
1 The Green, Oddington, Oxfordshire. OX5 2RA
Telephone: 01865 331469
Hannah mobile: 07899 825162 and e-mail: hrd1977@gmail.com
Mark mobile: 07717 862... |
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 | Oxford
2006-10-14, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: samkateb | | After a number of weekends in London, Loren & I decided it was time to do a little england travelling & booked a trip to Oxford for the 4 of us. It was too be our first Megabus experience (and not too... |
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 | Stratford-Upon-Avon
2006-06-26, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: MrsAris | | There's two more days to go before my husband and I take a romantic Short Break to Stratford-Upon-Avon to celebrate our second Wedding Anniversary.
I am looking forward to our Short Holiday t... |
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