Dreary Weather Can't Keep Me Down

We recieved the tentative itinerary for England on Thursday at the first Oxford meeting.
During the first week our class is going to the Bodleian Library! Let me just say up front, I read the book A Discovery of Witches, and I desperately want to see books come up from the stacks, the wing and desk Diana sat at, and a manuscript. I really love Libraries and going to THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY is like the superbowl mvp Library.
We are going to the Ashmolean Museum the same week, where we get to see all the curiosities that have gathered there. I am pretty excited even without getting to see Ashmole 782.

Been looking up travel tips, I get it England- lots of layers. I am trying to find the best way to pack my stuff to fit in the smallest suitcase possible. Oh, and finding out about how I have to hang stuff to dry. . . ekk.

Wishing for a tea party with all this cold and rainy weather. . .

One of the day trips the Study Abroad Program is taking us to a real English Tea House! I was thinking about how much fun that is going to be. I started imagining all of the servers dressed like Ghost Elizabethan era clothes, speaking very properly, serving tea, explaining how each tea should be properly sipped. . . calling us peasants when we picked it up without a pinky being up! Probably not what it will be like, but it sounds like fun!

92 Days & Counting

I have finished writing my scholarship essays officically. I really hope that I can get help paying for the trip, but I won't let a lack of money stop me. I had to discuss why I want to go on the trip, and it sort of reaffirmed how amazing England is going to be. Just being on an Oxford campus is going to thrill me from toes to the crown of my head. I just keep picturing being surrounded by books, and beautiful architecture.

I have this fantasy, I just got my motorcycle license and I really want to rent one for the day. Just to explore on my own or with a homie, if I meet someone who is ready for an adventure. Going through the country or streets and seeing the sites on a motorcycle sounds like an absolute dream come true. England, ready or not, here I come!