Georgie, A Minnesota Christmas, and Oxford's First Snowfall
The last week has been a good one, my final week of relaxing before I hand in my dissertation in September. We went out with Rich's coworkers from Trailfinders and had a good time, I got my first paper back (I got an A!!), Rich went out for curry night with the boys while I went to girls night at Miruna's, I read a fantastic book by Lisa See called Snow Flower and the Secret Fan about a Chinese woman's experience getting her feet bound and learning the secret written language for females (called 'nushu' ) which is now nearly extinct (for more info about the book, go here: http://www.lisasee.com/snowflower.htm), a very large box arrived from Minnesota with plenty of unexpected Christmas gifts (thank you very much!) and we got 2 of the last 10 tickets available for the Jamie T concert on Tuesday. (If you want to watch a few of his music videos, you can go online at: http://www.video-c.co.uk/watchsearchedvideos.asp?vidref=jami014).
This is a pic of some of the women from my MA program: me, Alia, Heather, Miruna, and Marcia.
It also finally snowed. Though it had all pretty much melted by mid-day, it was nice to see. It made it feel a bit more like winter and a bit less like some make-believe world; it really has been such an unusually warm winter for me.
One day, I went for a walk with our camera and took some pictures of unusual things around Oxford.
The first one is of a painting on someone's house near the Tesco's metro on Cowley Street. If you zoom in on the picture, you'll be able to read the words that are in white paint. (Before the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realise that we cannot eat money?)
The second is a of a bicycle that has been hanging in the tree off of Cherwell Street for the past month or so. I do wonder how it got up there and whose bike it is... I'm sure there's an interesting story there somewhere!
The last picture is of Georgie in our apartment.
It's perhaps my favorite picture of her. She likes crawling into small spaces, and I have to say that she looks pretty darn cute doing so... wouldn't you say so?
This is a pic of some of the women from my MA program: me, Alia, Heather, Miruna, and Marcia.
It also finally snowed. Though it had all pretty much melted by mid-day, it was nice to see. It made it feel a bit more like winter and a bit less like some make-believe world; it really has been such an unusually warm winter for me.
One day, I went for a walk with our camera and took some pictures of unusual things around Oxford.
The first one is of a painting on someone's house near the Tesco's metro on Cowley Street. If you zoom in on the picture, you'll be able to read the words that are in white paint. (Before the last tree has died, the last river has been poisoned, and the last fish has been caught, will we realise that we cannot eat money?)
The second is a of a bicycle that has been hanging in the tree off of Cherwell Street for the past month or so. I do wonder how it got up there and whose bike it is... I'm sure there's an interesting story there somewhere!
The last picture is of Georgie in our apartment.
It's perhaps my favorite picture of her. She likes crawling into small spaces, and I have to say that she looks pretty darn cute doing so... wouldn't you say so?
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