Year 2, Term 1, Week 9: Oxford – Work = ?
Why, I hear you asking, is there a Week 9 post this term, when it is very well known that Oxford terms only last for 8 weeks? Fear not, I haven’t suddenly taken leave of my mathematical senses – I stayed in Oxford for a week after term ended with Charlotte in her house. And what a fun week it was.
After getting some well deserved rest following our trip to Cambridge, we set about doing nothing useful whatsoever – and it was awesome. Simply because we didn’t have to worry about problem sheets etc. making our lives a misery as they had done for the previous 8 weeks. This week, we cooked for ourselves (gasp), bought Christmas presents, made colourful rubbers (erasers) out of clay and watched many, many movies on the projector. As a result, Charlotte has now seen all of the Star Wars movies, and we made it a good way through Season 2 of 24.
On the cooking side of things, we managed to make a surprising array of dishes: cottage pie, lasagne, toad in the hole (ahem…), pancakes, and many more wonderful delights that would be just too numerous to list here. On one night we battled the cold and went to the First Floor restaurant on Cowley Road – only when we got there we discovered it was a Chinese / Indian / Thai buffet, which made for a very scrumptious dinner.
On another night, we braved the cold once again and took ourselves ice skating! Something which I haven’t done in years, and so within the first 15 minutes I found myself bottom-first on the ice. Oops. Charlotte managed to cheer me up by allowing me to go to Pizza Hut afterwards though! I haven’t had Pizza Hut pizza in such a long time… *drools* Other outings in Oxford included getting hot chocolate for Charlotte at the Oxford Castle, and going Christmas shopping for friends / family, which wasn’t very useful for me as my flight bag was already 20kg on the dot, and couldn’t afford any extra weight.
On Saturday, I got the train to Birmingham and then the plane to Belfast City. Uncommonly, no travel issues – my hold baggage was 20.0kg… yessss!
So, that’s another Oxford term out of the way. This one wasn’t too stressful, but let’s see what the next one will bring…
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