We've Arrived!

This is where we are living. Ours is the one with the light on.

This is a lawn mower with a Taz doll on it. The interesting thing about it is that at Cambridge only Fellows (professors) are allowed to walk on the grass. So, I am not allowed on but Taz is on it.

Well after about 9 hours in the air, 4 hours on a bus, and 3 minutes in a cab we have arrived in Cambridge. So far, England looks fairly similar to the US. There are some minor differences in asthetics. One of which is that there seem to be cows in very random places. We passed a small grouping of them in Cambridge. No classes are going on right now (other than ours), but Cambridge is still bustling. The weather is in the high 50s and low 60s pretty much throughout the day. It rains a lot here. It is mostly light I have yet to see a heavy rain. The accommodations are Spartan. We share 1 shower with the entire house. When we signed up for the program we expected to share it with at the most 2 other people. Some people have showers in there rooms, yet we all paid the same fee for rooms. Oh well. The food is not that bad especially for cafeteria type dining. What they call bacon looks and tastes quite like country ham. For lunch I had chili con carne. It was pretty good since I never expected to see that in England. It was however the first time I had eaten chili with clove in it. Finally, the people here are very polite. Those of us from the Hospitality State have nothing on them.