I’ve been living on the wrong side of the country! Shit!
Copy/Paste April 18, 2007
Because I’m not willing to explain myself over and over again:
My flight got into London about 10:15 on Sunday night, and I was ‘home’ in Oxford a little after midnight. Not too bad, save for having lectures Monday morning starting at 10, and organized alternate lectures/social interludes that ran until 3ish in the afternoon. I was tired and hadn’t even unpacked, so while the lectures were fascinating (always are) the social time was a bore. I haven’t yet decompressed all of the things I’ve seen and done, and haven’t spoken to my parents since I got back, so questions like “What was your favorite part?” are currently answered with “I loved Berlin” or some kind of grunt of agreement when someone else is talking about the bridges in Prague. I’ll figure out a way to process it all eventually, so I can say more than “Yes, Europe was great.”– but I don’t know how long it will take.
I’m uncertain of how long it will be until I can talk about it/share stories/post pictures because I’ve already been thrown in to this term’s classes. I had my first meeting this morning, with Susan, and my first assignment for my Greek philosophy tutorial is to critique Socrates’ speech in the Apology- the one where he’s (ostensibly) arguing for his innocence, and therefore his life? One of the most famous speeches in history, and my topic is “What do you consider to be the weaknesses in Socrates’ defense? Where should he have argued differently, and perhaps saved his life?” Yeah, like that’s no big deal. The meeting, which involved three other students (one who is learning Greek, another who’s reading Ovid, and the last who will be starting Celtic Studies), consisted of more amazing conversation with the most knowledgeable person on the face of the earth– and lasted an hour and a half. At least this time the class is in English.
There is a link to pictures of the first couple of days in Paris under the “more” tab.
