Arrival to Oxford

My roommate (Kasey) and I just got back from walking 1.5 miles with tons of groceries. Welcome to Oxford!
We arrived at Oxford around 1 pm on Thursday. First we arrived to our flats and got our bearings on the rooms, then we made our way to Oxford! The city is beautiful with architecture jumping out at you in every directions. The people: busy. There were a ton of people around the shops and sidewalks. I was surprised at the amount of people on the streets because the term has not started! I wonder what it will be like next week.
Kevin gave us a tour of Oxford and we ate some pasties (past-ee). It is like a shepherd's pie in hot-pocket style. These are by far the yummiest street food in Oxford! Mine was of lamb and mint but the traditional is made of chicken, leeks, potatoes and celery.

After our tour of Oxford, we were able to walk around the area on our own and later meet with the other study abroad students who had just come in from the US.

On Friday we had our first of five days of orientation. We had one guest speaker who explained to us about the architecture of Oxford and we also learned about Margaret Thatcher, a PM of England in the 1980s. We later had a tour guide lead us through Oxford and show us several of the colleges such as Jesus College, Lincoln College and All souls College. There are 38 colleges, 32 of the colleges are undergraduate. In total there are about 20,000 students at Oxford.
On Thursday I was informed that I was accepted into New College! Most of the students on the program are in either New College or Trinity College. And guess who else is in New College? Richard Dawkins...I might have lunch with him randomly if I eat in the dinning hall ;-)

After the tour our group went out for some Fish and chips at the pub called Eagle and Child where the "Inklings" would meet. This was C.S Lewis and J.R.R Tolkien's most frequented pub!

And today-we had sun and it was nice after the rainy weather of yesterday. My roommates (Jody, Jacquine, and Kasey) and I went around the town with the guys (Jeremy, Jordan and Stephen) to check out the pretty buildings and take some pictures. It was such a nice day, I think we even made it up to 50 degrees! Then, since we have not bought any significant amount of groceries, Kasey and I went to Aldi for food! The prices are cheap, but when you convert it to USD, it comes out to being the same or a little more.

It is great here and I like my roommates and the flat.