Oxford Day 2

Ah, Blogger was down for a long time yesterday. Finally it's back up and I can post.

So we started classes today. It is such a neat feeling to be sitting around casually in a living room of a Victorian house taking an international business course. I love it. It is really neat to have a professor with such extensive experience in international business. I’m sure I will learn a ton in the next month. Both of the professors here are from ACU and are staying with their families with us in the houses.

Today in my international business class we discussed a bunch of things which I won’t discuss since I’m sure you’re not interested. We got to sit outside in the soft grass and 70 degree weather for part of it. Then we broke for four hours to eat and do our project which entailed going to a bunch of restaurants and shops to research differences between England and the States in business. While we were out I bought a really nice soccer ball for ₤2.39 which is less than $5. Hopefully I’ll get to play a ton in the next few weeks. England is getting very excited about the world cup coming up. Everywhere you go you see pendants and shirts and flags with the England colors and logos and such. I’m pretty pumped myself. I’m really looking forward to going to some of the pubs during the games and watching the Brits go wild about the games. The cup starts the 9^th. I’m excited.

On the way back to the house my group stopped by a market. I simply could not resist buying fruit. Fruit seems like an expensive commodity to me in the States, but here it’s extremely cheap. I got two crates of plums, a big bag of those small good oranges, and a tray of fresh raspberries for ₤3. I guess I got a little too excited. I’m not sure how I’m going to eat it all. I guess I won’t have any trouble staying regular…

Oh yeah, the rooming situation. I think there are about 40 of us here, staying in two 19^th century Victorian houses. Each house has 4 stories. The professors and their families have a floor of each house and the owners have a floor of one of the houses. We are split up between the remaining 5 floors. Most of us are crammed into the smallish rooms with 2 to 5 people each. Normally, when it comes to dolling out rooms by alphabetical order, I get the short end of the stick. However, this time, since there were so many of us they had to open a spare one-bed room. I was the one selected to stay in it because my name was last in the alphabet. Score. Sorry it's messy. I'm still in the process of unpacking.

Anyway, I am supposed to be keeping a journal every day that I’m here, so I am going to turn in my blog as that. I suppose I’ll be updating my blog pretty much every day, so feel free to check it out. Also, please ask me questions. Ask me about what I’ve been doing or what I see or something I can find out. It’ll help me use up more space (every entry has to be a page) and it’ll give me something to do. Thanks and have a great day.