Hahaha, Mom and Dad told me this was the thing I HAD to see when I went to the Ashmo. The Alfred Jewel...made by...KING ALFRED! It was beautiful, very old, dating from the 9th century. I don't really understand why it's such a big deal... hmm... Wikipedia didn't give me any hints, so if anyone knows about its significant (Mom? Dad? You told me to see the thing) let me know!
Hahaha, I died laughing when I saw this guy. Look at his face. Hilarious. 
Hieroglyphs! Tons and TONS and TONS of Egyptian artifacts... I've got to go back and look at it all again.
This is SO cool, Powhatan's cape. Just sitting there.. Crazy.
This is an Egyptian carving of a head. I just thought it looked creepy.
Tomorrow I'm going to Cambridge (Uh oh, the competing school) with Katie, Kate, and Matt, other students in the program. We're staying with Katie's friend who is doing a similar summer program, so that will be cool. My Lonely Planet guide book introduced the city and followed it with this controversial comment:
'While you'll find all these qualities (mentioned in the intro) and more in 'the other place' (as rival Oxford is referred to here), Cambridge is the more concentrated of England's two great university cities, and in our humble opinion, far the prettier.'
We'll see about that. I'm going to attempt to be an objective observer, and I KNOW Cambridge is supposed to be gorgeous, but COME ON. Ok, I am not even a legit student here and I can feel this intense rivalry... Nothing can really compare to the Clemson-USC rivalry (haha), but I think, maybe, just maybe, this ancient rivalry comes close.
The best thing about Cambridge is that Stephen Hawking is there. As my friend Helene says, we're gonna be 'Stalkin' Hawkin''... hahahaha...
So after the weekend I'll have lots of beautiful *but not AS beautiful* pictures of 'the other place' (which for me is CAMBRIDGE!).
Love,
Emily
'While you'll find all these qualities (mentioned in the intro) and more in 'the other place' (as rival Oxford is referred to here), Cambridge is the more concentrated of England's two great university cities, and in our humble opinion, far the prettier.'
We'll see about that. I'm going to attempt to be an objective observer, and I KNOW Cambridge is supposed to be gorgeous, but COME ON. Ok, I am not even a legit student here and I can feel this intense rivalry... Nothing can really compare to the Clemson-USC rivalry (haha), but I think, maybe, just maybe, this ancient rivalry comes close.
The best thing about Cambridge is that Stephen Hawking is there. As my friend Helene says, we're gonna be 'Stalkin' Hawkin''... hahahaha...
So after the weekend I'll have lots of beautiful *but not AS beautiful* pictures of 'the other place' (which for me is CAMBRIDGE!).
Love,
Emily
2 comments:
oh have fun at cambridge and good luck stalkin'... although i dont think you'll really need it... you can prob run a lot faster than he can roll.
Not sure which made my day more:
- the photo of that sarcophagus
- Stalkin' Hawking
Love it!
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