so, this past weekend was what we englanders call an exeat. this means that we boot everyone out of the school for the weekend and bugger off to a foreign city or land. this one was mellowyellow with the gang heading up to Oxford. It's about an hour by train or so which is fine if you beat the rat race and snag a seat, but sucks if you get stuck standing by the loos. when the three of us got there, we met up with two of Schmitty's german friends, Nina and Stephanie. We had a great time hunting down Harry Potter sets and re-enacting parts of Alice in Wonderland. We went to three markets in two days and got chatted up by not one, but two random Polish dudes. (Both had a thing for Steph!!) It was more or less a gong show of expensive chav clubs and decent faux-irish pubs. We also had freakish good timing with trains. we were late for both (there and back) but for some dumb stroke of luck, they were both delayed! it was fated.
i also learned that besides beautiful architecture and a university that is comprised of over 87 separate schools, Oxford had the higheset crime rate in Medieval England. Yupp, couldn't help but feel safe while wandering the streets at night.
lata gata
(code for 'later gator')
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