2. It's probably easier to make friends when you don't spend the majority of your time holed up in bed watching West Wing and hacking up a lung (I have caught the dreaded "freshers flu").
3. English food makes me crave fresh fruit and salad.
4. The heating system in my room is completely nuts. Both radiators are turned off, yet the entire room randomly gets very warm. I have two windows open and it remains a comfortable temperature inside though it is pretty chilly outside. The fluctuating temperature has led me to panic multiple times that I have crazily random fevers which obviously means I have SWINE FLU.
5. I have not had to explain where Portland is located as much as I expected. One guy I met spent a summer driving up I-5 with his cousin who is a trucker, another said "Hey that's where Luke's family moved on The O.C.!" and another connected it with Modest Mouse.
6. I literally don't have enough stuff to fill all the space in this room. If only this had ever been an issue in any of my previous dorm rooms...
7. Pants = not common for girls here. The preferred going-out outfit seems to be a long shirt over tights. I don't know if I can join in/support this fashion choice.
8. Nothing is more than a fifteen minute walk from campus. You can also get from one side of campus to another in five minutes or less. This is a new experience.
9. This town was not built for cars, thus the fact that they're on the wrong side is not as much of a problem as it could be. Many streets are only one way. However, just to be sure, I have developed a strategy of slyly looking both ways because I am never sure where they're coming from. Either that, or I just follow people across the streets.
10. The Harry Potter references never. end.
Eeebs TOTALLY agrees with #7, much to her disgust at the whole idea. Personally, I am jealous of your view on #1. That's awesome.
ReplyDeleteLove the page header!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I use the same strategy for crossing the street in Paris (look both ways, even though I probably look dumb doing so).
1. My view overlooks a dumpster and a currently-being-built roof. Most days I wake up at 8:30 am to the sound of a blowtorch.
ReplyDelete2. Fuck the fresher's flu. You contracted that even quicker than most.
6. You can buy an air mattress for me to fill that space if you'd like.
7. Screw that, I like pants and I still wear them often. Also, nobody wears rainboots, even though it rains every day.
9. I look both ways about 7 times before crossing the street, and I still almost die every time. Seriously, they don't value human life in London.
Given the age of Oxford, shan't you diagnose your maladies proportionate to the age? Typhoid? Consumption? The Plague? Get well soon, Phoebe!
ReplyDeleteWell in London they put the direction you're supposed to look right on the street, and I still look both ways just as to not be killed.
ReplyDeleteI'm used to a 6 minute walk to anywhere on campus and am now faced with a 45 minute walk to school every morning. What now? Serioualy?
I miss you.
That is all.
Well not quite--I may visit you at some point. If you're ever in London, give me a holler and we'll have lunch, etc.