Today we went on a walking tour of Oxford and learned more about William Morris and his many many works. We got to look at a lot of really cool architecture and learn about how the colleges within the University of Oxford work. We also went into an old library where Morris and some friends did some kind of awful fresco paintings - they had no idea what they were doing and they did them super fast. It's amazing that they've survived at all. The walking tour was nice, and our pub lunch was pretty cool. We went to a place called the Eagle and Child, which apparently is where Tolkien and C.S. Lewis used to meet up and eat and talk about big awesome important things. Also the booth we sat in had a plaque on the wall about what I assume is the meeting place of some sort of Doctor Who fan club. I will have to upload pictures and do a little research to figure out what was going on, but it looked awesome and contained the phrase "time streams permitting."
After a class meeting, we had a free afternoon. Cara and I went shopping at a mall in Oxford and I FINALLY got some jeans and a jacket! It was a heck of process due to the different sizing system and a couple of less than pleasant interactions (everybody seemed to be having an icky day - the weather started out nice but then got really rainy and cold and miserable and even hailed at one point), but I finally got some jeans that fit niiiiiiice and a jacket that should repel water. We will see. The jeans were pretty cheap, but the jacket was way more than I wanted to pay once I converted it into my head into American money. Ouch. But with the amount of rain and wind here, it will probably be worth it. Also it should last, so there's that. And I have my super attractive affordable jeans, so that too. So yay!
Tomorrow, Stowe.
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