Oxford

Amazingly I am still working on uploading pictures from spring break. I just put up pictures of Oxford, which reminded me that I completely forgot to tell you all about that. Oxford was ok, but we weren't there for that long and it was kind of a crappy day. But the coolest thing is that some of the Harry Potter scenes are filmed in Oxford! We got to see the Great Hall, and the wall where Dolores Umbridge hung all those silly rules and regulations when she was in charge of Hogwarts. All the relevant Harry Potter pictures have captions in the slideshow, so enjoy.

And thanks to all those who gave me input for the sermon. I'm pretty much done with it (it is due at noon tomorrow, so I am just editing at this point). It was an adventure to write, for sure. I actually ended up only spewing on about friendship because otherwise I would have gone over my word limit. I'm contemplating sharing it, but it is embarrassingly corny. We'll see. But here are the songs I used:

"For Good" - Wicked

"You Raise Me Up" - by Josh Groban, because I felt like it

"Friends" - Elton John, from the movie Friends

"You've Got a Friend in Me" - Toy Story

I just hope the sermon makes sense when the professor reads it...

In other news, my plans to go to Munich last weekend got killed by the volcano that erupted in Iceland. I'm very sad about this, because it would have been a blast to get to Germany. And we were going for a mini beer fest. So that didn't work out, but plans for a longer trip during reading week are currently being hammered out. We're contemplating a trip to Amsterdam, Brussels and Bruges, with hopefully a quick detour to The Hague while in Amsterdam.

Lots of papers to write, so apologies in advance for the lack of updating. Enjoy the Oxford pictures!