First things first. Sorry I missed posting last week. I haven’t died (as should be patently obvious to you by now) and am doing quite well. Classes have started and while I don’t feel swamped by the workload yet, I have felt a little overwhelmed by the British (or is it just LSE?) way of doing things. Most of you will be familiar with the North American approach to university education where things are fairly well defined and self-contained. A student at a Canadian university will have registered for all of their classes (and perhaps even bought all the assigned textbooks for those classes) well before the first day. Not here! We’ve been allowed, and even encouraged, to ‘shop around’ by attending the first few lectures of any class we may be interested in before submitting our final class choices. Soooo, I’ve been running around to a bunch of different lectures, trying to make sure I get into good courses so that my astronomical tuition fees don’t go to waste. (you chuckle, I cry…and starve. Well not really, but let’s just say that I wouldn’t turn away money, food, or even credit card numbers should you be willing to part with them.)
Shifting gear entirely… I went to the London Temple yesterday. For those of you not familiar with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, temple are places of worship that we consider to be more sacred than regular meeting houses. We go there to learn and to perform ordinance both for ourselves (e.g. marriage) and for those who have already died (e.g. baptism). In any event, it was a beautiful day in a beautiful place. The building itself is about an hour by train South of London so it was nice to get out of the city to see the countryside. It really is gorgeous, especially when juxtaposed with the concrete jungle that is London.
Shifting gear entirely… I went to the London Temple yesterday. For those of you not familiar with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, temple are places of worship that we consider to be more sacred than regular meeting houses. We go there to learn and to perform ordinance both for ourselves (e.g. marriage) and for those who have already died (e.g. baptism). In any event, it was a beautiful day in a beautiful place. The building itself is about an hour by train South of London so it was nice to get out of the city to see the countryside. It really is gorgeous, especially when juxtaposed with the concrete jungle that is London.
I’m really looking forward to having the opportunity to travel around, even if only here in Britain. This is such a wonderful place with so much to see and experience (above and beyond the main attractions). I’ve seen some of it as a child but it seems different and (understandably) more vivid now.
Well, I’m waxing nostalgic so I’d better end for this week but keep those comments coming!
