St. John's

   While waiting for the gears on my bike to be fixed, I took a few pictures down by St. Johns. I must say, this is about as classic Cambridge as it gets.

There aren't no ties in basketball!

    So its a gloomy Monday morning here in Cambridge (see pictures below). Yesterday the Churchill team had its first basketball game against St. John's and we ending up in a tie, 31-31. I am not quite sure how one actually ends a basketball game in a tie, but honestly the result was a fair bit better than I expected. As for dance, we have been working hard getting and learning our routines. For ballroom we have waltz and quickstep, and for latin we have cha cha and a bit of jive. So much to learn!

Societies!

    So I have joined a couple of societies now that I have been here. I made the Cambridge University Dance Team after a day of tryouts, and I have already had a number of practices... they take it serious here! Quite unlike this next group...
   I have joined Churchill's intramural basketball team. Games will be on Saturdays, likely starting in a few weeks. Its an interesting group of guys, most of whom have never played on a team before, and a few which had never touched a basketball before. Its an exciting time. I fear that we would make MIT and Caltech guys look pretty good...

Fresher's Week and Punting

    So all of the Churchill scholars are now here, and thus begins the adventures of all 14 of us as a group. Last night we went on a "Hostel Crawl," hosted by the senior graduate students, we participated in many merry-making games (most involving copious amounts of alcohol). Today we went punting as a group, which is basically a bunch of long boats propelled by long rods! The adventures have begun!

Grantchester Meadows

   I went on a walk today across town to some green areas!  The park was quite lovely, and I even passed within a couple of feet of some cows that were wandering on the path... feels a bit like Northfield again : )

Oxford Road!

   I get such a kick out of there being an Oxford road in this town... to be fair, it is fairly tucked away and I only saw it while getting lost on the way to a primary school for dance, but I am a bit surprised anyone here lives on it! Speaking of dance... boy are people good here. I feel like I am basically starting all over with it again, not that its not good for me : )

Wandering the town in search of dinner!

   A friend from Carleton is here in Cambridge working in a biology lab, and last night we went out in search of food. Getting lost resulted in finding a number of cool spots, and these pictures are some of what we found!

Supposedly Isaac Newton built that bridge...