Week 1 DONE (almost)

I am almost done with my first full week in Oxford. It has been an eventful one. I met my tutor and I am incredibly excited about my tutorials. I am taking Renaissance literature and

Milton. She assigned us our first papers for the week. I definitely had to buckle down and write them. It meant 2 nights of little to

no sleep but they are done! If anyone is interested (which I doubt unless you are an English major), I wrote my Renaissance one on power and self-destruction in 3 of Marlowe's plays and my Milton paper on the idea of conception and the womb in Paradise Lost. I was fairly pleased with the results and was excited about discussing them in class. Unfortunately, my tutorials were canceled because my tutor has the flu. We are going to reschedule.

I also have been going to some lectures at the EFL (English Faculty Library). We go to them to supplement what we are learning in tutorial. I loved the one I went to on Milton and it gave me some good ideas for my paper. The EFL is a little ways away, about a 15-20 minutes walk but it's been fine because the weather has been so nice. I was expecting rain every day but it

actually has been beautiful.

A group of us went out for Rachel's birthday on Monday. Happy birthday, Rachel!!! We went to the Duke of Cambridge which was a really nice bar. We were the only ones there for a bit but had a great time and took some fun pictures.

One of my favorite things I've done this week is join the Oxford archery team! I am SO excited about it. I'm going to have my first practice on Thursday or Friday. Wish me luck! Hopefully I won't be too awful/ shoot anyone.

Tomorrow we have the freshers' photo where we all get dressed up with robes and take a huge picture of all the new students at Pembroke. It's right before matriculation but visiting students don't get to take part in that because we are not actually getting a degree from Oxford.

I'm off to get started on some more reading!