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!
3 comments:
I'm glad to see that you're still committed to this endeavor. Anywho, I can part with a few credit card numbers, but they may or may not be mine, and I may or may not have gotten them through illegal means.
But you know, if things ever hit the fan, you will always have this option of Credit Card Fraud and Identity Theft. Sure beats actually starving.
I still can't believe how much nicer the weather is in London/Southern England than it is here. Something about that just doesn't seem right.
Keep these posts coming, and I'm sure we'd all like to see more pictures of your handsome mug painting London red.
Lincoln
"looking for work, or credit card fraud. what do you expect from us; we came from abroad." Pet shop boys
anyway, the temple is the right place to go to get away from it all. were you there alone or with the YSA? It's a fabulous 14 degrees today with the sun shining on all the orange leaves. it's likely the last of the t-shirt days here so I was sure to ride my bike. think of me sometime when you slap the oyster down and hemorrhage some cash.
Ben
ps; I like the class survey system you have there. we could do well to encourage that kind of connectivity here.
Hey Graham,
The temple looks nice.
=)
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