The Adventures of the Unadventurous: November 2010

So I will be leaving Nottingham soon. I still have backlog of blogs to update but was feeling rather emotional so decided to write something today.

At the moment I have 4 essays due- to end my university life. I am waiting to go to hk to start working for a month...I gt my work visa sorted today so God has given me peace in terms of that.

I am gonna miss this place- at this very moment im itching to get out of uni, but Nottingham just drew short straw cuz of my five year stint, not cuz of itself. I would have loved to have been here for all of my uni years.

I learned heaps while I was here- God dealt with me specifically abt not running from life, taking care of myself better in terms of health both mentally ad physically. It was tough at first when I got here n everything unraveled but now I am sure I can continue my walk w God even when I stumble. Gosh it's hard to write on iPhone.

Anyway it's a gratitude note for God in a way ad I know some o you don't believe in God so just ignore those bits but just get a sense of how happy and blessed I feel have been able to come to notts.

So went to Oxford on 23 October 2010 with Travel Society. This was not a well-organised trip on their part- we had until 2:00 in Oxford, then from 2:30 to 5:30 at Bicester Village which is the place where there are outlets of well-known brands. ANYWAY.

OXFORD! I seem to be going to all the places I have already been to..

Just some pictures around the town.

Pretty yes? but the water was not that clean lol.

We were on our way to Ashmolean Museum.

Ashmolean Museum. I believe it is part of Oxford University

- The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum. Its first building was built in 1678–1683 to house thecabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.

Me and Renae at the Museum!

Me being me. AGAIN.

We got to Oxford at about 10 so we didn't have much time- so Me and Renae went our separate ways from Yun and Kat- which was okay by me because I've been to Oxford before. It was funny, I remembered the streets below from when STCC went on history trip before...:) Ahh.. good days.

We set our ways to a pub called "the Eagle and Child", a pub CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien frequented when he was a student at Oxford Uni.

Oxfam shop next door sold a lot of JRR Tolkien books.

The PUB!

The Eagle and Child is a pub in St Giles', Oxford, England which is owned bySt. John's College, Oxford. The pub had been part of an endowment belonging to University College since the 17th century. It has associations with theInklings writers' group which included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.

About the "Inklings" from Wikipedia:

The Inklings was an Oxford writers' group which included C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams and Hugo Dyson. From late 1933, they met on Thursday evenings at Lewis's college rooms at Magdalen, where they would read and discuss various material, including their unfinished manuscripts.These meetings were accompanied with more informal lunchtime gatherings at various Oxford pubs which coalesced into a regular meeting held on Mondays or Tuesday lunchtimes at the Eagle and Child, in a private lounge at the back of the pub known as the 'Rabbit Room'.

The formal meetings ended in October 1949 when interest in the readings finally petered out, but the meetings at the Eagle and Child continued, and it was at one of those meetings in June 1950 that C.S. Lewis distributed the proofs forThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

So of course we had to have our pint where the greats did. It was good. Mmmm.

Movenpick!

Then we set out to Christ Church College. The entry fees about 4.50 for a student.

Christ Church (Latin: Ædes Christi, the temple (æděs) or house (ædēs) of Christ, and thus sometimes known as The House), is one of the largest constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As well as being a college, Christ Church is also thecathedral church of the diocese of Oxford, namely Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. It should never be referred to as "Christ Church College" or "Christchurch College," mistakes commonly made in the media and elsewhere.

The college is the setting for parts of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, as well as Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. More recently it has been used in the filming of the movies of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series and also the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel Northern Lights (the film bearing the title of the US edition of the book, The Golden Compass).