I'm Alive

Yea so this trip is ridiculous... The English riverside is sooo pretty. Boats, Bridges, and Trains. I filled up my camera in one day, it's only 72 pictures, but luckily I packed my computer to reload it. Ugh I'm going to be so sore by the time I get to London, much less Dover, and Paris... Yesterday I made it to Goring, which is 27 miles down river from Oxford, last night at about 8ish and ate dinner. Then I got directions to the campsite, couldn't find it and ended up setting up a camp near some trees behind a tennis court. Well I slept there until about 2 when I noticed it drizzling. So I whip out the trash bags and coat my sleeping bag in them. I go back to bed and then wake up at 3 because my face is getting wet (I have a mummy sleeping bag). Realizing that it was really picking up fast and a down pour was emanate I loaded everything back on the bike and headed back into Goring. I found a covered arcade and set everything down. It started pouring and I was glad to be dry. I set out all my stuff next to a wall and wrote a message on the ground with some chalk I brought for some reason. Saying that I'm sorry for sleeping there but there was a big storm late last night. Sleeping on concrete sucks... anyways today has been great weather and I'm making good time.

I'm in Henley now and still have about 4 hours of daylight! Well my pictures are done so I need to save battery.

Cheers!

Oxfrod --> Paris

So I'm starting a bike trip to Paris tomorrow and lucky me the last half of the week is just rain... Oh well it should be ridiculous none the less.

My route is going to be down the Thames Path from Oxford to London, then from London to Sevenoaks, in Sevenoaks I get on the North Downs Way and take it past Canterbury towards Dover. Once I'm in Dover is the moment of truth whether I get on a ferry to Calais and then ride from Calais to Paris. I plan on taking a train or bus back to Oxford with my bike and should get back in late April.

Pictures will be taken letters will be written.

On another note photobucket is trying to upload my pictures but is miserably slow... So you'll probably have to wait for pictures to get up when I'm back home... Sorry this blog has been kind of a fail, because I'm not one for a routine and thus it got updated only like 10 times... Anyways I'll be in touch. Weeee!

Gowahhhh

So Saturday I went to a skate competition and sucked... It was really embarrassing I kept slipping off the board and getting stuck on things. But it was still a good day, just not as good as I'd hoped.

Right now I'm packing up everything in my flat to go into storage at the OSAP office. I'm leaving either tomorrow or maybe tuesday to go to Paris... by mountain bike. I'm trying to leave tomorrow and I'm overwhelmed by being really really nervous and excited about it.

Also last night was really sad because I realized all the friends I've made here I'm most likely never going to see again and got the same sad overtone of when I was leaving Erskine to come over here.

On an awesome note I've almost finished editing and uploading all my pictures!
Here's a slide show of my first trip to London!

(PS the pictures are backwards so if you want to start from the bus station to the National Gallery click "reverse order)

I am a slacker

So I've been really really procrastinating doing anything except reading books and webcomics, skateboarding tons, and going out to clubs... But this weekend is going to be amazing!

Friday I'll be skating and taking lots of artsy pictures in London. I bought a cheap tripod here so I could do what I've been wanting to do so it's real exciting. And I've been to London 4 times now, but without a skateboard, so double exciting.

Then Saturday is truly going to be epic. A big skate competition on two half-pipes with a spine in the middle that's actually sponsored by Nike! Wow... it's gonna be insane! I'm not planning on even getting to the podium, but seeing as how my board is about a foot longer than everyone else's and I've been learning new tricks like mad (4 in the last two days) I'm hoping to walk away with some prize. Also its going to be a big graffiti event too and I've cut a big poster sized stencil for it. I'll take my camera and put pictures up eventually. On top of all that there's gonna be free barbaque! Mhhm! I know it's no mustard-based-carolina-orgasm, but it's free and still should be pretty good.

We'll I'm out to run some errands and finish editing all my England pictures to but them up some how...

Wow today was beautiful!

dang another slack update that ill have to expand on...
hiking around rural oxford today and it was amazing
im making plans in my head for the future over here after the term

i have to go down the street and win some money playing poker... im surprisingly good

Another sad escuse for an update...

Sorry but things here seem to escalate in their intensity every week. I have lots of pictures to put up, but I've had 2 papers due a week since last time i wrote. Man, the days just melt away... but I have a personal journal that will accurately recount everything from that first week here...

I still need to write about London, Pete the Juggler, England's Skate subculure, Steve the Bookworm, Shakesphere's birthplace, getting in fights, God, Science, Human Consciousness, Avoiding the Proverbial Wolves at Night, Multiple Crash courses in living with out institution, Pubs, Clubs, Growing, and just looking as an outsider and learning about Britain and thus, through comparison the US.

Paper due Tuesday Morning, Lecture on Wednesday, and Paper on Thursday morning.

I'll try to write during my lunch breaks starting tomorrow with London and pictures from that.

Wow... what a week

So it's been snowing and raining since Superbowl Sunday. This last Monday I had a very busy day and generally enjoy feeling the rain, but I forget its cold in jolly Ol' England... so spending most of the day walking around in the rain and being wet, surprise surprise, I get sick. I spend all Tuesday in bed wishing I'd eaten more vegetables the week before, but alls well that ends well. Or however that goes. Anyways 2 papers beasted this week when I discovered that to sit down and write I need to be in a really busy place like a starbucks-busy coffee shop on the street I live. Got an Oxford A! But yes this weekend is more playing hard for the hard working, even though I still have plenty to tell about that has remained untold... Sorry for the anticipation I hope that the product will live up to the wait.

Plans for this weekend: (just because i figured you'd want to know?)
~Fri~
Get caffeine 7am (15 minutes from now)
Go to tutorial 10am
Get more movies from library
Go to a 90s themed party (luckily most of my cloths look like costumes for this party...)

~Sat~
Rest, read, and work
Go to the Mardi Grais Bop

~Sunday~
Skate for multiple consecutive hours (if it rains ill weep)
Read more
Go to Church
Go to Bed early