Hiya!
It was my dad's birthday yesterday - we celebrated by having dinner and buying him a cake. It wasn't much, just a family and close friends thing.
I also went to Cambridge today, specifically Corpus Christi College. We took the coach there, which took a few hours. Most of it was spent talking about the clouds or discussing how, to me, Cambridge is classical music whereas Oxford is dubstep. I don't know why. But every time someone mentions 'Cambridge', I have the image of a string quartet playing Pachelbel's Canon in a giant hall.
Once we had arrived, we were split into two groups for lectures. There were only twenty of us, so two groups of ten - one group listening to the biology lecture (which I was in) and one group listening to history. We had a one hour lecture about cancer, which could've been a little more interesting... The history people got to look at real ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts, and the real signatures of King Henry VIII and Elizabeth I. Lucky them!
We then had lunch in the main hall. It was amazing. It felt awesome because it reminded me of the main hall in Hogwarts, with the chandeliers and long wooden tables, but at the same time I felt like I was eating lunch in a church or cathedral, so it kinda felt wrong. And loads of Cambridge students stared at us, but it was alright.
After lunch, we had a tour around the college. There was a funeral going on, however, so there were loads of people and we had to be quiet. After, we spent the last few hours getting a chance to ask questions to a few undergraduates, which was cool.
We left the college then and walked a little bit to see a special clock which has a giant 'time-eater' bug on it. And we waited for it to turn 3 o'clock so we could hear the rattling of chains, which represents the sound of a coffin being lowered into the ground. Dark, eh?
Anyways, after that, we ran back to the coach and headed back home.
Overall, a very fun trip (made fun by my friends too - it would probably have been more boring without them) and a wonderful experience. It was a great opportunity.
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I love y'all, and goodbye!
