Michelle Enters Harry Potter Land :D

Life has finally gotten a little bit serious here in London, which explain my lack of blogging. However, it's my obligation to keep my fans informed (well at least the few I have)! As for busyness, I had my first presentation this week. It was actually a little bit stressful as I was suppose to lead discussion, along with my other two group members, for the seminar of my International Relations Theory class. Also, as a side note, the British seem to have a problem with the way I say class. Apparently is typical "ditsy American." Oh well! My presentation actually ended up going very well. The professor was very impressed with both the discussion questions we came up with and with our knowledge of the subject at hand, which was Liberalism. The class also seemed to enjoyed discussing the questions we came up with. So, basically it was a win, win.

The week was a fairly quite one in terms of partaays. This was due to a certain incident that occurred the weekend prior. The incident I speak of was when I twisted my ankle when I walked back from a fail at an attempt to go clubbing. I have to say it hurt. A lot. This happened last Saturday, and on Monday I went to the health center to get it checked out because it hadn't really gotten any better. They told me that I had inflamed tendinitis and that there was some bruising on the muscle behind my achilles tendon. It sounds a lot worse than it actually was. They wrapped my ankle up, put something like icy hot on it and told me to "take it easy." Yesterday it pretty much felt back to normal, apart from a little pain when I went up and down stairs. Due to the fact that I was feeling good, I proceeded to go out for a friend's Birthday. Coincidently, this girl happened to go to high school with Joe! What a small world. We went to Roadhouse, a club/bar in Covent Garden and got our groove on. The only sad part was the cover charge, seven pounds, which I guess isn't too bad.

Last weekend wasn't all a lost cause! Before I twisted my ankle on Saturday, I went on a day trip to Oxford. It was a beautiful day, which complimented the little town very well. I pretty much felt like I was in Harry Potter land the whole time. We went to a Castle, Christ Church College, which is where Harry Potter was filmed, a botanical garden and a Cathedral. I learned that Oxford University doesn't really have one main campus but is made up of 36 different colleges!

Christ Church College

The Cathedral

I would have to say the coolest part was entering The Great Hall. That is where they dine in all the Harry Potter films and where the sorting hat does it's magic! We also went into what they call The Divinity Room, which is where the dance scene was filmed for the 4th Harry Potter movie. My real traveling adventures start the coming Thursday when I head to Frankfurt, Germany! Joe has family there, and they invited me to tag along, which, I have to say, was extremely nice of them. I've been to Germany before with my family, but we only went to Munich. So I'm super excited and planned to squeeze as much adventuring in as possible even though I'm only there for three days. :D  

Me jumpin' jumpin' in the Divinity Room

The Great Hall!

Lastly, I have to go on a little rant. In response to Joe Patterson's, AKA smarty pants, know it all's, latest blog post:
I'm sorry if the people in your class are unintelligent imbeciles, but COMM MAJORS KNOW THEIR STUFF. I apologize for the banter, but I have to stick up for myself and fellow Comm majors.

Peace!