"Americans thrive on failure."

This morning we went to a lecture given by Sir Roger Bannister, who is a very prestigious neurologist but is most famous for breaking the four minute mile back in the 50s. He is an Oxford grad and now teaches a few tutorials. He talked about different aspects of historic Olympic games. We also listened to Bob Schuettinger talk about Anti-Americanism. In the end he claimed that Anti-Americanism isn't actually real because if it was, Europeans would do something about it. Hmm.

We then went to lunch in Hall at Magdalen. That was the first time I had seen the dining hall, and it is so nice and Hogwartian. There is room for about 150 people and a high table where the deans and professors sit. The food was sub-par. I'll get over it though in order to get a meal for 1.5 pounds.

We went to the University gym, which is right down the road from us, but there is a membership fee of about 100 pounds that we weren't aware of, so that's lame. It's a really nice gym though, with an Olympic sized pool. Clean. Very different from the nat at OWU.

Amanda and I checked out the Bodleian Library, which is huge and confusing. And Brits aren't exactly that helpful, so I have no idea where I am going to find the books I will need in order to write my Eqyptology paper for Tuesday. We did stumble upon a room containing thousands of old Latin volumes. We weren't allowed to go far into it though because we had brought our bags with us. Because our motive was obviously to bleed our pens all over the texts...

Then home for grilled cheese and wine. We're classy. To add to it, we watched a cheesy British soap opera. It was hilarious. But worth it to watch the commercials. They are so much more epic than American ads.