saturday at fourteen hundred

It is early Saturday afternoon and we found a cool upstairs section to where we have been using the internet. Just discovered that the update I wrote yesterday didn't post, so I'm rewriting it now.

The bad: we won't have internet until Tues, so no skyping or massive picture uploading until then. Expect a lot of pictures starting Wed. 

Everything else is good. We have been slowly accumulating apartment goods. Today we finally found an alarm clock and a watch. This is very important since we need to be somewhere for church at 8:30am tomorrow. We are visiting two churches tomorrow. Both are Anglican, but one is high church and the other is lower from what we hear. For lunch we are going to a food and garden festival at one of the colleges.

We have managed to upload some pictures from our journey and first walk. They are each in a set on our flickr page, but check back to the journey page since we have many more to add once we get online.

Our apartment is not exactly old English style, but it is nice and clean and ours, which has been very nice after long days of walking. We are very happy with it and it is starting to feel like home. Pictures in due time.

Speaking of walking, there is a lot of it here. We are probably going to get bikes, but are trying to check our options before we do. Thursday, our biggest walking day, involved 7 hours and probably 15 miles. The addition of carrying a lot has caused sore feet and backs, but we should get used to it soon.

I started my serious study of Aquinas yesterday. I think I have something of a method of study now, but it takes a lot of time. The pace should pick up a bit, but right now it is at about 30min/ article. For Tuesday afternoon I need to ready something like 45 articles. Yikes. A wise 90+ year old Princeton Professor's advice is now looking very wise - get ready to stay up late. Don't worry, a coffee maker was one of our first purchases.

We also visited our first pub the other night. It was nice, the beer was delicious. The tap beer is different here. It is hand pumped instead of pressurized. This means it is less fizzy than US tap beer, which I much prefer. Andrea even finished her pint.

The other students and I went to the college to tell them we have arrived and were given a brief tour. Our ID cards are one the way - cool. In case you are interested, we are at Wolfson college.

That is all for now. Please comment here and on our pictures, it will be a great way for all us to stay in regular contact. Cheers.