Mar 20, 2012

day 4 in Oxford

Today I woke up at  6am in order to do work before class, since I wasn't able to yesterday because of the power outage.

at 9 am, my friend Hilary and I went to buy tickets for a tour of the Bodlian library. We had some time to kill until the tour at 10:30, so we wondered around Oxford.

We stumbled upon (actually, broke into) Worcester college, part of Oxford University, and found the most GORGEOUS gardens and grounds.





didn't get to see anything about the actual college, but we strolled around the grounds for about an hour.

Then we went the Bodlian library, which is the really old huge library in the middle of Oxford. Now mostly used for graduate and fellow research.
The trinity school, one of the now un-used rooms in the library, is where.....the infirmary in HARRY POTTER was filmed!!
I kind of blanked on the rest of the tour because I was so focused on this amazing concept.

Afterwards, the library held a free exhibition on manuscripts of the Middle Ages, and on display were ORIGINAL manuscripts from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Morte d'Arture, On the History of Kings of Britain, The canterbury tales, and a first folio of Shakespeare's As You Like It. I was in heaven.

Then I had my Jane Austen class and spent the afternoon doing homework. Jenna and I had a cheap (Mcdonalds, hehe) dinner and watched a movie.