Updates from the not-quite-as-wet-as-New-Zealand uh.. Island.

Hey all,

Happy Guy Fawkes’ Night!! I hope you all lit something on fire. Last night JF & I went out to see the “region’s largest firework display” which was quite nice. More interestingly, apparently some 25,000 people turn out for these.. in a town of only 100,000 permanent citizens! It was quite touching to see everyone so excited about the fireworks. It was, again, disconcerting to see everyone drinking in the streets, which is apparently legal. I’ve even seen undergrads walking the streets with the pint (glass) of beer that they took from the previous bar, still sipping away. Odd!

As promised earlier, here are some “scenic shots” of Cambridge… and they’re only about a month and a half old! ☺












Those are all the kind of "prerequisite" Cambridge shots, so, there you go. But here are some more:

Our house, Herrick House. Trust me, it's better with the tree in front. Trust us to get stuck in one of the only ugly buildings in this town!!


Trinity Hall!! That's the library, which is actually very new ('99.. uhm, 1999, since the college was founded in 1350)


Really neat-o and non-Cambridge-looking new maths complex


King's College, from the back.


Tonight I got a craving for cinnamon rolls (really, anything to avoid the homework that looms for tomorrow morning!!) … I didn’t have much time or yeast or frozen bread dough, which is what every recipe I found online required. And then, after cleverly googling “no yeast cinnamon rolls” I found this one… ( http://gilly.ca/?p=9 ) and gloriously prevailed!!! Huzzah. Now, I command you all to go forth and bake quick & dirty cinnamon rolls!



Huh, in uploading the photo of the "glory rolls" from my camera, I found some other ones on there you might enjoy seeing...

The English idea of an "EXTRA-large pizza"



Grad Hall, which is a formalish dinner held every Wednesday night, and to which "smart dress" and gowns are required. JF and I both managed to blink, because we were so embarrassed about being the dorks taking pictures at grad hall like tourists. All in all, though, very fun. (But the food mostly sucks.)







Apologies for any crazy formatting, I've been struggling with this thing for too long!!! Now I'm off to eat cinnamon rolls and draw syntactic trees. Woo hoo!