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When I heard I was going to live in Oxford for two years I was prepared for a diet of sausages, fried fish with chips (fries), and buttery potato dishes. And to wash down this heart-stopping and hip-expanding diet, we’d have a choice of warm beer or Earl Gray tea. But as the days of

I’ve been spending my days alone and I’m finding myself desperate for conversation. In fact, I took up a lengthy debate with a park statue on the pros and cons of pigeon hunting. I’m embarrassed to say, I lost the debate but decided to join some social groups. My first group is Toastmasters. Toastmaster’s is

I’m told people are people the world around but my experiences so far are that showers are not all created equal. I’m not making a judgment on the entire country but I have experienced three showers in our college tour and I have yet to understand the logic behind their design. Our first experience with

We have a flat! After participating in our version of an Oxford tour of homes, we have started the process of renting. The decision was simple. We decided not to take the flat with the incredible view of the deer park because the landlord lived upstairs and requested we make no noise. She clarified this

It may sound cliché but the weather was cold, dark, and there was a hard driving rain that never seemed to stop. That was the night we left Atlanta.  Oxford has been sunny and delightful. We arrived on a Monday afternoon with all of our most cherished possessions, which according to Delta weighed 140 total