Definitely didn’t want to get up this morning, but had to so that I could rewrite the final draft of my last English paper, as well as write some Arts of Oxford responses. I wasn’t really irresponsible on the trip…I mean, I turned all of my assignments in on time every time, but I still did a lot more “waiting until the last minute” than I usually do. Oh well, I am going to have a really busy semester, so I’m having fun while I’m here.
Last day of classes! Well, really just English for me since Arts of Oxford has been going on excursions all week. Today we ventured out to Keble College to see their beautiful chapel and the original Light of the World painting – a very famous painting. It was quite beautiful.
After our journey, Sarah and I ate at Noodle Nation for the very last time. So delicious but so sad. I shall miss Noodle Nation a lot.
After lunch, we did some flea market shopping at the Gloucester Green open market. We didn’t really buy anything (although it was very difficult to resist an early edition Alice in Wonderland), but browsing was lots of fun.
We finally made it to our goal for the afternoon, the University/Pitt Rivers Museum. The University Museum is this awesome natural history museum, and Pitt Rivers is an anthropological museum. Both were awesome, but naturally I was obsessed with Pitt Rivers, as I am an anthropology major. The University Museum had lots of dinosaur fossils, and a dodo skeleton, which was quite cool. The architecture of the building was awesome too – if a train station and a cathedral had a child, it would be this building.
The Pitt Rivers Museum was totally different though. It was about as far from the type of museum you would generally imagine as it gets. There was tons and tons and tons of stuff crammed in to standing display cases, and it was dark and things were tagged with handwritten tags….none of the sterile lighting and neat organization of most museums. Everywhere you turn you’re looking at different artifacts of culture and human history – I was looking at religious icons, turned around and was staring at shrunken heads (which were really really really creepy). It was awesome, to say the least.
I was exhausted after all of this, so I headed back to the college to take a quick nap. Then I headed to Primark to grab a dress for Molly that I really thought she would like, and just do my last bit of shopping in Oxford. Oh, I’ll miss it.
Headed back to the college for dinner, then had an open evening, since we weren’t going out because of exams the next morning. Bobby still hadn’t been to a classical music performance for Arts of Oxford, so I went with him to a concert at the Sheldonian theatre, the official theatre of the University where they do graduation and such. It was absolutely awesome. We sat in the cheap, nosebleed seats, but it didn’t matter. We had a good view, and the sound was what mattered anyway. We had a really awesome time.
After the concert I was supposed to go meet the girls in the pub to hang out, but it was 10:00, and no joke, I was exhausted. So off to bed I went – had to rest up for my last day in Oxford!!
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