Noodle Nation - July 21, 2009

Just another usual day in Oxford. Ha, yeah right. Like there's a usual day at all.

Got up early this morning, and unfortunately there were a few issues with tracking down my key...so that was fun, but I made it. Class as usual, then exciting afternoon adventures.

Sarah, Bobby, and I headed to this place everyone has been raving about...NOODLE NATION...for lunch. Oh my goodness. Discovering The Mission and this in one week is just too much. It's chinese food, but not really like we have at home...but close. Oh, so delicious. You don't even know.

Afterwards, we headed to the Oxford Union to view the Pre-Raphaelite King Arthur paintings in the library. Basically, these guys went in and painted these fantastic huge murals all over these walls, but didn't prepare the walls correctly first, so they faded. It's actually really difficult to see them because they are so faded now, but it's kind of cool because you have to try harder. Like, you have to walk all around to see where the light gives you the best view. And the paintings are gorgeous, of course, so it's definitely worth the work.

After that, Sarah and I walked around a little bit and found the Oxfam Bookstore...Oxfam runs all these thrift stores all over England. So of course we ended up spending a while in there. You know how I feel about books. Mmm....

When we finally drug ourselves away from the books, we walked about in Oxford looking at some of the different colleges, trying to pick a spot to write our English papers. We had to pick a place where collegiate architecture and nature interact and write a response to it. We both chose places within Exeter College -- if you look at my facebook pictures, there's a picture of a big domed building and it looks like it's rising out of the garden, right along with the plants and flowers. That's what I wrote about. We ended up sitting around and talking for a while, before finally heading back to the college to start our epic amounts of homework we constantly have.

Since GA tech had formal hall tonight, we got to have bagged lunches for dinner. It wasn't too bad, but I miss healthy food so much. I feel like all I eat are sandwiches and chips. I mean, I eat fruit whenever I can, but it's tough, ya know?

After dinner and homeworking, we decided to head down to the pub for a little while and hang out. Everyone was busy and tired, so we decided to just hang out there instead of going out out...I played some darts and billiards and overall it was a fun night. I really like hanging out with a lot of the GA Tech people, and the Oxfordians who are around are always really fun to hang out with as well.

Called it an early night...around midnight or so, haha. Hey, you can sleep when you're dead.

I am already thinking about how sad I'm going to be when I have to leave here. It's so beautiful and amazing...there's just something about Oxford that can't be captured in words. But now, whenever I read where others have attempted to do it, I understand that spirit or feeling that just can't be described...only experienced.