ticking

sometimes i wonder how time works. why is it that when you are having fun, time whizzes past you like nothing else, but when you are doing something annoying, it stands still and the clock face laughs in your face? anyways, the point of this is that my time in charlbury is slowly winding down, but instead of feeling this slow winding i feel like it's going like the wind (without elizabeth taylor). i'm excited about the upcoming 4 weeks though. we have lots of excitement behind ourselves and much more to come. this week is a case in point. after a brief affair with the glamour of acting and hollywood (our play... and we watched she's the man), this week has been a return to normalcy here in charlbury as we went back to oxford and had our classes once again. thank goodness for quality professors/lecturers/tutors or whatever we should call them over here. it's been a good week with good plays and good learning. good.

however, there has been much to do besides learning, and oh boy, have i done it all! i feel like i've been excited for everything we have done all week. time for a list.

purchases:
£15 oxford hoodie, £5 hat from a thrift store, £6 shirt from primark, and £1 cheesburger from mcdonalds. the list is actually longer if you include regular groceries. i haven't really done any shopping thus far so i don't think that's all that bad.

plays:
as you like it, a student production, which was . . . adequate. but that day included more chocolate than is humanly possible, so it made for a good day.
guards, guards!, a CADS dramatic production, which made us canadian students burst out laughing and the more subdued english chuckle.

sports and sports related activities:
(now, i am far from the sporty type, so this is actually a big deal)
-morning walks with sharon and one time with gabrielle. having walked all over rome and florence, i feel the lack of exercise now that i'm back in charlbury.
- soccer and then soccer baseball and then playground time in the rain. always great fun. always dirty. always injuries.

weekend fun:
friday- wine time at sharon's, then a boggle tournament/movie night/bonding time with everyone except tim and beth. they are in dublin. for st. patty's day. luckyyyyy. then jodi slept over
saturday- breakfast time with jodi, then soccer on the field, then i am sam with bethany, jodi, mark, gabi, alisha, ree and me at my house, then a wonderful breakfast dinner at jodi's, then pub time with ree and jodi. solid.
today- church time, chili and doughnut time with jodi, then cleaning and party-setting up, then reading and sleeping.

the best food week of my life:
chocolate, cheeseburgers, fries, sundaes, bacon, sausage, pancakes, doughnuts, hashbrowns, yogourt mousse, hot chocolate with whipped cream, fish and chips, curry, pizza, veggie tray, fruit tray, nutella toast, chili on rice, babybel, etc. etc. needless to say, it's a good thing that i chose this week to do some exercise.

so that is a bit of what fun it is here. oh joy. and tommorow, we are having a st. patty's day party, complete with poem reading, storytelling, irish games, and most importantly, a reading of the history of our beloved st. patrick, patron saint of green. i'm pumped.

and this weekend, we are going away to stourhead, where i will stand on the same place that darcy and elizabeth are during the ever-so-romantic rain scene in keira knightley's version of pride and prejudice.

oh. yes.