Mar 20, 2012

Day 3 in Oxford

Monday morning we got an introduction to the library at Univ, and then I had my Shakespeare class. Then I spent 3 hours working in Univ. library writing a poem (felt very intelligent sitting in that library...)

Then we went to this vegetarian restaurant called the nosebag.
I reverted back to my french ways for a night and ordered pate with bread and salad :)
The frenchness continued when we went to coffee after dinner and got a teeny tiny espresso and a truffle.

Then we had a talk by Leslie Mitchell, a graduate, professor, and expert on everything Oxford who gave us the history of the University and the different colleges, followed by a bit on the crisis that has been taking place between the "townies" (citizens of Oxford) and the "gownies" (professors).
Immediately after his presentation was over, the whole of Univ. lost power and we were in the dark until about 12:30am (I went to bed way before that). Oxford is quite scary in the dark.