It makes me sad when I think that I only have a week and a half left here. I don't want to think about leaving all the people that I have meet and this city that I have fallen in love with. I have determined that the best thing is just to not think too much about it, but still fit as much as I can into the time I do have left. Unfortunately, I also have to fit four papers into the mix as well, while still trying to be as social as possible and fitting in the sights I still haven't seen. I wish that we throw the papers out the window, so I could just have fun! But I guess the main purpose of a study abroad program is the academics. Oh well.

Well, I face faced the great and mighty Bodley several times now and lived to tell about it. For all the fuss they make about security and everything, they don't even really check what is inside your bags on the way in and out. However, you do have to present your card simply to get into the building. I have been having books for my papers sent to the Lower Reading Room in the Radcliffe Camera, which is the picture on this entry. It is as beautiful on the inside as it looks on the outside. Although it is a little dark on the inside, the stonework is amazing. Studying inside a building this old is mindblowing. It makes me feel special to have the honor of studying there when the building is so beautiful and entry so restricted. I think I am getting a hang of not being able to take the books out of the library. Having to take notes on the sources right away actually cuts the stuff that's not going to be useful to my papers right at the beginning.

We had the exciting experience of having one of our lecturers sharing with us new scholarship that hasn't even been published yet last week. His book is going to be about his discovery about what he believes is the message behind the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis. Ever since they were published, scholars have tried to explain the connections between all the seven books of the series and the symbolism found in them. He believes that they are connected in that each one represents the qualities associated with one of the five planets and the sun and moon. All of us were excited that this the man who discovered this connection was standing before us and one of the guys took a picture of him when he was answering questions, which set everyone off to laughing. We also felt honored that he was sharing this knowledge with us before his book was even published. All of us said we are going run out and buy it when it comes out. Okay, maybe you had to be there, but we all were very excited. Maybe we are just all nerds.