4:30pm on July 4th 2003

4:40pm GMT
I still can't get this to connect to the internet. Feh! I will have to wait until tomorrow to post this. Jess and I went for a little walk around Oxford. There are shops everywhere and it is really easy to find your way around. Also it is totally designed for pedestrians... no one even tried to run us down. We wandered around for a few hours then decided to actually look for something and couldn't find it. Jess wanted some kind of cheap radio and I wanted an alarm clock radio thing but the only ones we saw were like 20 pounds and we were thinking more along the lines of five. The money here is kind of hard to get used to. It is just weird having pink bills. I was accosted by a pair of cows and we saw this cool Guiness time sign. There was also this really interesting band on a pedestrian only street. They weren't too bad; I haven't taken a picture of them yet but the day is still young! I have not changed the time on my computer yet and I don't think that I want to. It is just weird that it is 11:46am at home. I am still not sure what the meal schedule is here yet but I think that we will find out about it tomorrow when everyone else arrives. I did at least mangage to call home... I was dialing too many ones. I think I might buy a calling card but I might just keep using my credit card. It is a pound a minute which is a lot. The internet cafe thing is like a pound for half an hour so I think internet it is for today. This sucks that I can't post yet! Tomorrow it will be straightened out, I hope. Nap time again because we must have walked about 3 miles just looking for a phone card.

We will probably stop at an internet cafe tonight so this will end up being posted out of order but that is ok. :)