Oxford Day 23

Today was long. I woke up and stumbled into the office where my team was assembled, and we worked on our project for a few hours, finishing up our presentation which we gave to our professors at 3. It was so great to be done. I have nothing else to do for the remainder of this trip, except continuing this journal. I suppose I don’t really mind this though, since a few people actually read this and get to hear what I’m doing. I’m not very good at recalling events after the fact, so it helps to put down what I can remember at the end of each day, rather than trying to recall it all later on down the road.

I love it when professors get fatigued. Mr. Winegeart had a ton of assignments at the beginning of the trip that we had looming over our heads. We had a big book to read with a report or exam over it at the end. We had two papers to write, and a final exam covering everything. Today we had a meeting though, and he said that we didn’t have to read the book, we didn’t have to write the papers, and we aren’t having a final exam. So basically, we already have our grades based on what we did in class a couple weeks ago, and we get a completion grade for this journal. So basically I get a fairly easy A in one of my upper level major’s courses. Score! I’m really glad he did it though, because it probably would have been quite a bit too much to ask, since we’ve worked ourselves nearly to death during the past couple weeks. It’s been a blast, but we’re all really worn out.

Now I’m faced with my final weekend in Europe, and my group of 5 guys has no destination. We have no idea where we’re going to go tomorrow. We were planning on Dublin, but when I checked the forecast, it said rain for the next ten days. Poo. We may end up going there, or Scotland, or Wales, or even the Netherlands. I have no idea though. Hopefully we’ll come up with something awesome to do before it’s too late.

Tonight I went out with a few guys to watch Thank You For Smoking. It was a really funny and awesome movie. I love intelligent comedies. I wish I could be a master of words like that fella. Quite impressive.

After the movie, we came back here and sat around in my room for a couple hours, playing guitar and talking about random stuff. It was fun. That’s all I have to say about that. Tomorrow, I depart for the unknown. Wish us luck.