Something Different

I wish this layout attached the date to my blog entries...and I like the background too much to change it so i guess I'll just have to write it myself.

May 19th!....well, in america...here it is 1:17 on May 20th...

either way, I'm exactly one month out from returning to the states. A scary thought really. so i'm going to put off thinking about it.

Today Alanna woke me to go play Rounders witht the Regent's students. It was a form of softball except the ball was very tiny, the bat was tiny, the field was tiny, and you only hit with one hand. The rules of this game were nothing like I've ever experienced. Apparently you run even if you don't hit the ball.....a very good thing for me. So after the ball has been thrown 20 times however many "rounders" you've gotten (which is someone gets all the way around) is your score. They don't have bases either...instead there are skinny poles shooting up from the ground that I wanted very much to hang on to as I ran past.

The sky was perfect. The temperature was just great...and it was just a great something different to try out. We played the girls from Christ Church college just for fun, i think they beat us but I don't guess I paid very close attention...mainly I just ran when people told me too. It was fun.

This evening I had dinner with Ula. She is my Polish friend who lives in Italy. She made Ragout (pasta and bolognese sauce) for us and shared some of her amazing Jasmine tea with me. She uses real tea leaves, so I was impressed...

After dinner we went to the Natural Science / Pitt Rivers Museum for a night event called "In a Different Light"....The highlight was watching Tibetan Monks do a dance and a prayer chant. I've never seen anything like it and their clothes were just amazingly ornate and their hats were huge! As I obviously am having a hard time describing this well, I've just included pictures....and here's an article from the Oxford website