Oxford Day 19

Today I didn’t do very much, and it was great. I got up and read a few chapters of the book for my class. Then I wandered around the houses and marveled at the fact that pretty much everybody was out of town except me and a few others. I felt a bit lonely, but realized that it would be a good opportunity to get stuff done.

After a while I got hungry and stuck some wonderful Edam cheese in a couple yummy rolls and put them in the oven while I played guitar. After a few minutes I went to check on the rolls and saw that the cheese hadn’t melted very much at all, so I decided to wait a couple more minutes. I went back to my room and started smelling smoke about 30 seconds later. I ran into the kitchen, turned off the oven, and opened the window, fanning frantically to keep the alarm system from going off. I still have no idea how that bread managed to completely char itself in under 30 seconds after having been barely warm for about 5 minutes. Oh well. I ended up eating crackers for lunch. They were yummy, but not quite as satisfying as cheesy bread.

I ended up playing guitar for another couple hours until a few of us went to a pub to watch the England – Ecuador game. It was pretty awesome being in a tiny room full of tons of screaming Brits watching a great soccer match. We got hungry during halftime and left to get a burger across the street. It took a while and England scored before we could get back, bringing it to 1-0. We decided to go get ice cream instead of finishing the game. Then we just came back to the house.

Tonight we had a devo, and I led singing. It was actually pretty fun, and they really appreciated the guitar accompaniment. Tomorrow we head to London to start our final challenge. That’ll be a blast.