Oxford is Flooded!

I'm getting slightly worried about my roommates not responding to my emails. These past few weeks large portions of England have been flooded due to the heavy, persistent rain. The Thames river runs right through Oxford, so several neighborhoods in the city are flooded. I am fairly sure that the house that I have arranged to let for the next year is still on dry land, but I don't know if it has electricity or water at the moment.
Hopefully, by the time I arrive on September 1st, it will be back to semi-normal. Or maybe I should buy a rowboat to commute to school!

Getting Prepped to Go

As crazy as it seems, in only a few weeks I will have moved to the other side of the globe, to a damp foggy island northwest of the European Continent. Since so many of my friends have been enthusiastic about keeping in touch, and since I am not one of those people who sends lengthy and boring mass emails, you can check my blog as often as you like (or as little as you like) for the latest Oxford photos and stories of my humiliations and small triumphs as I attempt to navigate that foreign land known as Britain. Wish me luck!