No tea with Lizzy

I worked on my Biochem essay all day on Friday, and Rob really liked it. It's pretty unfortunate that I my grades don't count at Ohio Wesleyan because I am doing better here than I do there. I only get credit for the classes I take, if I get a C- or better. That really just encourages people to drink heavily every day and barely do their school work when they are abroad. What is the message we are sending here? Study abroad seems to be an excuse to take a semester off. I feel like I would be shot in the face if I didn't get anything done here. It would at least cause an extremely awkward hour long one-on-one discussion.

Speaking of sending the wrong message... As we were walking back from the boathouse Saturday morning, someone mentioned how inconvenient the Thresher's being closed a lot lately is. Thresher's is the 1/4 convenient/grocery store 3/4 liquor store underneath the Fresher's dormitory. Then someone pointed out the pharmacy that I had never acknowledged. So, alcohol and access to the morning after pill right underneath all the first years. Perfect.

Anyway, after my tute on Saturday, I went to the Choral Evensong at Magdalen Chapel. The organist is retiring at the end of term, and he has been here for about eighteen years, so they had a special service with him. The New College choir sang with the Magdalen choir, and it was quite a service. So many people were there that they had to keep adding seats outside of the chapel.

On Saturday night, a few others from the program came over before we all went to the Magdalen Bop. Theme? "Gritty". What does that mean, you ask? Who knows. I don't think the guys who organized it even knew. They sent out an email saying either dress to the theme or wear black pants, a white tops, a red hat, and eye makeup. Needless to say, it was a flop. There were very few people there, and terrible music was played. We ended up going out for kebabs and then to Tibeault's (British kid whose room I had gone to before) to hang out and meet some new people.

We were supposed to go to Windsor Castle yesterday, but since the weather has been "bad", it was postponed. I was really excited about it. Stratford next week though! It better not snow again, because these people don't know how to handle it.

We had a tank session yesterday afternoon. Then at two the team had a tea party/picnic in the captain's room. It was really nice to go to. Awkward at times just because I have no idea who anyone is that they talk about, but oh well. They are so intense about rowing though. It's awesome. I got an email last night about rowing with W3, so I may have been booted off W2. But I'm not actually sure because I've been told to do things with W2 as well. Hmm.

Biochem lecture in an hour. Then Egyptology reading all day long. Pyramids! I need to go to Egypt. After Europe, that is the next destination on my world tour. The Ashmoleon Museum is a museum in Oxford that has a lot of Ancient Egyptian artifacts, and I hadn't been able to go until last week. But when I tried to go, I found out that it is going to be closed for renovations until November. How disappointing. No worries, the gift shop is still open though. I was just really excited to see their exhibits because in all the books I read, there are photos things in the Ashmoleon. I will go to the British Museum in London, but the Ashmoleon would have been so convenient. Also, there is a lot in the MFA in Boston, and I haven't been there in a while. I'll have to stop there as soon as I get home. Luke: do you get free passes of some sort? Do it, and we'll have an adventure before I leave you for Delaware.