A Little Of This, A Little Of That

Ok- so just really quickly answer the question from my lovely father: Yes, some of the local Brasenose students stay here during the summer. The people who actually who are kinda like our guides and put together the program, our waiters, and the bartenders down in the school Pub are all students. They get room and board for the summer for entertaining us as their guests!

So fun story- yesterday was Bastille day apparently. And like I mentioned, we have some French guests joining us here. Well, they decided to come in to our dining hall while we were eating and serenade us with their National Anthem. It was actually pretty fun! At first we were really confused at what was going on, but it definitely is a story!

Our first reading in our Shakespeare class is Julius Caesar, and yesterday some of our class decided to get together to recite it out loud. It was probably the most fun I've had since I've been here! I think we might have had a little big of a wrong interpretation... of a twisted love affair between Caissius and Brutus (c'mon, read it again and tell me it isn't there!). In class we discussed the government of Rome and the history of British Monarchy and how Caesar was actually an analogy for Elizabeth I! It was a lot of fun to just discuss some of that stuff.

Well today we're going to Blenheim Palace to see some stuff regarding Jane Austen, and then afterwards we're going to Stratford to watch a performance of Julius Caesar. It's our first field trip so I'm pretty excited, and will come back with lots of photos!

Sorry I haven't written lately, just been really busy. But I hope this will do for now.