Short and Sweet

So, I have been feeling guilty to have not posted anything this week, so here is a little bit about what I have been up to.
Last Sunday I went to London with the other study abroad students from the US. Here we are called the "WISC" students. That day we saw most of the tourists sites of London, walked around Buckingham Palace, saw the change of the guards, and got our pictures with some of the guards as well. It was great to talk with the other WISC students and get to know where they are from and what they are studying here. I feel a little bit like an outlier when I tell the other students that I am studying International trade markets and entrepreneurship.
We also went to the Cabinet War Rooms, which were the underground headquarters of the British Government during World War II. This also included a museum about Winston Churchill. As much as I like learning about the past, sometimes museums can be overwhelming, but this one I really enjoyed. It was cool to see all the rooms and how they looked during WWII, hear about the different people who were living in the rooms for four years!
After the tour of London, Monday brought great joys of studying in one of the older Libraries of Oxford, the Radcliffe Camera. It is such a pretty building from the outside and quite museum-looking from the inside. I learned that mornings are the best time to go to the Camera because there are not as many students. It is a bit funny seeing and change of how many students there are from the mornings and between 2-5pm. On Monday I also went with two of my roommates (Jody and Kasey) to Evensong at the New College church, which is an evening service with a choir. The women choir is one of the top three choirs of the world, but we heard the men who I thought were very good.
The rest of the week consisted of me reading and writing, however, on Thursday night I went to an Oxford debate called the Oxford Union upon my tutor's request. The topic was on raising the amount UK students pay for education. The change will be from $3,000 to $9,000-it is a big jump, but I think I would take that amount over the tuition of the US any day. I had a great time hearing both sides of the debate and realized that the composure of a person who had a good point was more relaxed and easier to understand than someone who was only playing on emotions and had no solid information.
On Friday, the Summit Oxford group once again met at the Bywaters' home and we shared dinner with the family. Later that night, Kasey and I had some long conversations with Kevin and Angela about US health care and compared the tuition for education between the US and the UK. Angela and Kevin were able to inform me more about what health care is going to look like for the US and how bad it is going to get within the next several years.
Other than that, I went to London again today to go to church at Hillsong. Two other Summit students and I went and had a great time. After church, which felt like a concert and a message, we grabbed something to eat and then went to stand on the prime meridian in Greenwich. The prime meridian is in a large part and at the top of a hill. Since we were there later in the day, we were able to see the green laser beam that shoots across the park and 15 miles away to point out the direction of the prime meridian. It was pretty sweet to see a laser beam vanish into the distance. By the end of the day, the three of us were tired. It was a great way to end the week.
I will try to post pictures tomorrow as a study break! Till then, cheers!