Weekend 1 in Lists and Pictures

Friday

1. Sleep in since you only got back from Bat Out of Hell at 2am.
2. Go to the "Which Jane Austen?" exhibit at the library to examine early editions of her texts, learn about her family and personal life, and see the real letters she wrote to Cassandra.
3. Read Titus Andronicus in the Radcliffe Camera (the fancy circular building that I keep taking pictures of), and be amazed at the spiral staircases.
4. Enjoy a mini pub crawl and end up at both the Lamb & Flag and the Eagle & Child, the pub where CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the other Inklings met for their writing club.

Saturday
1. Take the train to Bath, then start the tour of the city in the ancient Roman baths, which stem from a heated spring underground, and which led the locals to worship the deity Sulis Minerva.
2. Have high tea in the Pump Room, above the baths and where famous scenes from Persuasion were filmed.
3. Visit the Bath Cathedral to admire the exquisite windows while listening to an operatic choir rehearse gorgeous music.
4. Find a cheesemonger. Eat cheese.
5. Explore the Jane Austen Centre to learn more about the authoress's life and times.
6. Take a jaunt around the city, delving into an independent bookstore and wandering past the river.
7. On the train platform, have a picnic consisting of cheese, crackers, wine and Cadbury chocolate.

Sunday
1. Sleep in again because what else are weekends for?
2. Attend mass at the St. Thomas Moore Chapel in the Oxford Catholic Chaplaincy.
3. Read under the shade of the trees in Grove Quad back on campus.
4. Have hilarious conversations about the varieties of cultures within America at lunch.
5. Plan to study in the library, but then run into friends who are going to the Vaults coffee shop, and join them instead, and spend more time talking than reading.

6. Get confused by the English weather, which makes you alternatingly shiver and sweat within 2 minutes.
7. Stay when your friends leave, and spend a bit of time actually getting reading done.
8. When a lovely elderly British couple asks to sit at your half-empty table, say "Oh, yes, please do!" and then proceed to enjoy a two hour conversation with them about, among other things,

• English history
• American geography
• Detective shows
• Classic novels
• Education systems
• Travel destinations
• Sibling differences
• RV sizes

9. After dinner, play cards with your professor and two friends until dusk.