Stonehenge, Sheep, and Stones

Okay folks, I know it's been awhile, so I'll make up for some lost time.

Let me start by introducing a new and shiny segment on my blogstravaganza: TEXT RECAP

Text Recap involves me catching you up on like a week of stuff ALL IN 180 CHARACTERS OR LESS.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand GO!

Mettutorwrotefirstpapershelikedithooray!gladshedoesn'tthinki'mstup
idatemorepretgotdrunkontequilapassedoutonthelawn.

115. Not bad. YEAH I CHECKED IT ON WORD. WHUT. YOU DON'T KNOW ME. But yeah, in all seriousness, it's been pretty laid back the last few days. My tutor set me an essay earlier than all the others since she's going to be at a conference in the States one week during term, so we had to tack an extra week on in the beginning in order to compensate. It's been wonderful to just bond with the people here. They really are an impeccable bunch. I couldn't have asked for a more ideal set of people to experience this with. :)

We all decided we'd go see Dorian Gray last night. I don't think it's reached the states yet, but it was kinda fun. Suspenseful and tittilating but pretty poorly acted and a little over the top. Whatever, there were lots of naked people and that's ALWAYS okay in my book. Unless they're ugs.

Today, we took a really cool tour of some of Britain's really ancient historical monuments. Okay so MOST of it was interesting. The first "castle" we went to was like 5000 years old or something ridiculous like that (I really have no concept of time when it comes to world history) and at this point it was basically just like little piles of rubble where walls used to be. So basically like looking at a medieval floor plan. It wasn't that cool. However, we then went to Salisbury which is the town the "castle" looks down on. (Though in my opinion that castle didn't deserve to look down on anything. Severely unimpressed. :P) We saw a cathedral and the oldest still-working clock and then a couple of us found a pub for lunch. Apparently pub lunch is a big thing here and I got this thing called "Hands of Bread" which was basically a huge hunk of bread covered in melted cheese and your choice of two toppings. It. Was. AWESOME. We also ordered some cheesy fries (called chips here) for the table to share and slathered them with malt vinegar. More than anything else I'll miss malt vinegar when I come home. I can't even explain to you what this glorious nectar does to fries. It's just ambrosial. I'm gonna get so fat.

After Salisbury, we all hopped in the bus and headed to Stonehenge. Pretty frackin' amazing. It was a gorgeous day and so we all took a lie-down on the grass and took some cute/funny group pictures. All in all an amazing little hour spent at a British national monument.

After that we headed to Avebury, which is very similar to Stonehenge. Apparently there are a whole slew of standing-rock monuments like Stonehenge all around that area. The cool thing about Avebury is that you can go up and touch the rocks/walk through them etc. Oh, haha, how could I forget. The entire field of rocks is populated by tons and tons of SHEEP. SHEEP EVERYWHERE. GLORIOUS FLUFFY SHEEP. We tried to pet one, but they're sly little devils. After spending about 20 minutes or so wandering around and watching the sheep poop and pee and giggling like TRUE Oxford scholars we all popped onto the bus and headed back home. And so now here I sit, and since I don't really have anything else to say, I guess I'll wrap it up!

PEACE.

Ian