Just some random and ridiculous stuff about Oxford

[lathriel]

I forgot to mention this after the walking tour of Oxford, but this is Oxford's May Day tradition:

-the night before, all the college students drink (surprise!)
-all night long. It's the only night of the year the pubs are open all night.

"May Morning"
- the Magdalen College Choir ascends to the top of Magdalen Tower, and sings a hymn, the Hymnus Eucharisticus
- all the people gather below and listen
- the (very drunk) college students try to jump off the Magdalen bridge, into a shallow creek
- festivities ensue

I am SO excited for this. ;D

Plus, I'm hoping the novelty of this poster that I'm going to pick up tomorrow will encourage my friends here to go to more pubs and less clubs (hey that rhymes!). One of my brother's friends told me about it. Did I mention Aaron and two of his friends from London came to visit yesterday? They did, and it was fun. We "did a crime" as he said by not putting money in the donation box when we toured Magdalen college. Karmically I paid though, because my little point-n-shoot camera promptly stopped working, so no pictures until Aaron's friends send them along.

And for your enrichment, the Oxford instances of "Magdalen" are for some reason pronounced "maudlin." It's probably Gaelic or something.

Yay, already in a better mood!

Comments

[margueritaa.livejournal.com]

Hey, I hope this is not too wierd haha, but I read that you were an exchange student to England on the literary tattoos community. I went to Ireland to study for a semester in High school, and I want to go abroad again, but i dont know any good college exchange programs, which one did you go through?

[lathriel.livejournal.com]

Lol, no it's not weird ;D I'm a student at the University at Buffalo, so all the SUNY school exchange programs are open to me. I'm going through Brockport right now, but I can't say it's the best program necessarily. I would as at your school to see if they have "partner schools" around the world, because those usually are the more affordable programs. Where are you thinking of studying, if you don't mine me asking?

[margueritaa.livejournal.com]

Well when I went to Ireland I also went on a trip to London and I loved it, So I was thinking there, or I have always wanted to go to Australia.So most likely one of those to places.They both speak english too so thats a plus! haha.
I just want to find a great program thats affordable.
The program I went through in Highschool, Ayusa,

[margueritaa.livejournal.com]

Okay it cut off on me, haha.
But that program I also went through was not that great either.