Election Night: Literally 200 people from around the world crammed into our common room, watching CNN, and eating Haribo gummy bears. It was fantastic! Such a great memory for so historic a night! I felt very proud to be American (and a Floridian). It is definitely a moment that will make it into textbooks, and I will get to tell my grandchildren I watched it all from England.
Appropriately, American Night with the Rotary Scholars was held on Friday. I helped make fried chicken, sweet potatoes, green beans, and peach cobbler (yes I cooked!), and we listened to country music - quite southern because nearly all of us are from that region. John and Gyll attended too, so I enjoyed sharing a bit of my culture with them!!
Our Sunday trip into London was postponed, but I went to an outdoor, multi-faith service around the WWI and II Memorial in Oxford, just a bit down from the college, for Rememberance Day. It was a beautiful event with moving prayers for all those affected by conflict. It's quite humbling to think of how secure our lives are compared to most.
Now we are into Week 5 - ahhh! Lots of work to do, but I am enjoying almost all of it :) Thank you all for your prayers and thoughts.
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Glad to hear American Night went well. I would have loved to join you. Sounds like you had real Southern food. Yum! Anyway, I just booked my flight home for Christmas and just wondered when you would be leaving. I'm entertaining the possibility of seeing a little of the Christmas lights in London before I head out on Monday the 15th and wondered if your flight might put you there around the same time. Let me know your plans. It would be great to see you again and catch up before going home.
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