So it begins...

Well, after a beautiful little jog around the Oxford Sporting Grounds I finally feel that it is the time that dirtysnell.blogspot should be underway. I know many of you have waited with bated breath for me to leave the country again so you can feel close to me again. I have this feeling as well.

First impressions of Oxford: pubs have low ceilings, the skies are usually gray, the people almost all talk with a funny accent, the age of the buildings can be felt and seen no matter what part of town you are in. Since Hilary Term has not yet begun not many people (students) are around. Today however seemed to be move in day as I sat in the St Anne's Library window. It brought me back to 1998 when I was dropped off and moved into Lipscomb Hall to begin a four year Athens adventure. Though this period may be abbreviated I do still have the first day of school butterflies and a sense that there is a new chapter of my life to be written. I suppose we shall see...