First Day of "Class"

The trip has been amazing so far and the weather even better! OnWednesday, we were introduced into our first class over here: The Principles of Marketing. That morning was a little rough and it was difficult to get to the classroom at 8:30, but everybody made it on time. After our morning session, we headed out for some lunch at On the Hoof, which serves freshly made pitas, then it was time to return to class for our afternoon session. To my surprise, right after we were released from class, almost all of us, roughly 25 students, walked over to University Park to play some 7 on 7 footbol (a.k.a. soccer)! On a side note, since I love to play soccer I also would like to mention that the World Cup will be in sessionwhile we are here - more information later to come. But I digress, we had fun playing soccer for hours until we finally reached a stage of exhaustion from site seeing and intense soccer games. The rest of the afternoon and night were very relaxing, and going to bed never felt so good.

Thursday was similar except we went sight-seeing through the rest of downtown Oxford and got to see more of the history this city holds. Also, we ate at a Kebab’s vanthat night, which serves kebabs off Woodstock Street, and then proceeded back to the room to study for our first test Friday.

The test wasn't too terribly difficultand the afternoon class went by decently fast because we were all ecstatic about leaving at 5 to take our first trip to London. We boarded the train (hint going in groups can get you cheaper tickets then online) and met a couple of students from Wisconsin studying architecture and had a great ride talking with them on the way to Paddington Station.

Once in London, we headed for our hostel, which was not that great especially because my group booked it a night or two in advance, but we had a great time anyways seeing all the sights at night. The next day,we took the underground (was very cheap) all around London and to see the Changing of the Guards, which everyone should see(starts around 10:45 a.m). Sunday was a similar experience with running around town like Saturday. I could talk all about the different sites of London, but I will save you the hours it would take me to explain everything and just give you my top 10 favorite places I recommend seeing: The Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, the Old Texas Embassy, Piccadilly Circus, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, and a play at The Apollo Victoria Theatre. Now these are only a few places that are special to London and and aren't even close to being the entire city, but our experience in London was so thrilling that itwill be hard to top it, but maybe our trip to Paris on the 10^th just might. For now signing off, Jeff Bartosh.