Formal Dinner

Last night was the formal dinner. Everyone got dressed up and then went out into the grassy courtyard in the picture of my view. There we were served Champangne and the wine guys kept filling the glasses. We talked with all of the other summer school people and the intellectual property people and also the teachers and presidents and all of those people. After about half an hour we were told to go on to the chapel for the lecture. Climate change as it affects the poles or something like that. It was kind of interesting but my contacts were bothering me so I was kind of distracted throughout most of it. After the lecture, I had about ten minutes to go take out my contacts and go up to dinner. This was a formal dinner so we sat and were served by the very nice undergraduate oxford students who are working here over the summer. Cold vegetable soup, then smoked salmon on a bed of lettuce, then lamb with turnips, greenbeens, and carrots, and then lemon ammoretto cheesecake for dessert. White wine, red wine, and port also. While at dinner, we discussed going out to a pub afterwards and so we tried to get a group together but they didn't seem to realize that the pubs close at 11 and it was 10:15. Three of us finally just said to heck with them and went down to O'Neils on the corner for a Stella. We had fun and when they started to close up we took a walk around town and passed four or five Chip Trucks. These are vans that come out on the street and sell greasy food to people after 7 when all of the food places stop serving. Today I have classes pretty much all day. Tuesdays are nuts for everyone. I will probably get a chance to post some more pictures soon though. I wish you all were here and I will be buying the first round of postcards this week so if I don't already have your address please email it to me!