Time Flies

The pic to the left is of Laurel and Jessie in the courtyard at King's College after we went to Eucharist. These two in addition to Ashton Botts came and visited me last week, and it was soooo good to see them. They made my week....On an unrelated note, I swear that someone has pressed fast-forward on life in general because we started the fifth week of term this week....ahhh! School work has been okay, but it has intermittently been interrupted with choir rehearsals. We perform in London tomorrow, and I will be in London from 9ish in the morning until lateish at night. I really look forward to it though. The philharmonia chorus and the royal philharmonic orch. both sound great, and the opera is to die for. The bass soloist is a Welshman that I think could single-handedly conquer the rest of the U.K...Tonight I am continuing the weekly ritual of going to Taj Tandoori which is our favorite local Indian restaurant. It is half-price on Monday's for students, so myself and my English compatriots take advantage of it. A pint of Cobra and a lamb Ceylon...my mouth is already watering. I think that it is finally done snowing here, but you never know. I am told that Summer is much prettier, but I'm waiting for that one to come to fruition before I believe it. Life is soooo wonderful despite the occasional busy spell, and I am still having the time of my life. This place is really starting to grow on me, and I am going to miss it tremendously when I leave it despite how much I miss the U.S. and everything and everyone I left there. I miss you all, and cannot wait to see you in March!

Cody

P.S. The pic to the right is Sarah Percival, myself, Briony Jones, and Josh Jowitt in the college bar after a formal.

Old Friends, Old Town, Old Country, New Experiences

I hope that all of you are still having a jolly good time without me to enrich and fulfill your lives, but fear not...I shall return eventually. My time here has made me realize how much I mean to all of you, and has fill me with a sense of great humility...alright, maybe not, but you miss me and I miss you and we will leave it at that. Nothing extraordinary has been going on here, but I have had a ton of rehearsals recently to prepare for the upcoming opera performance with the choir as well as a recital I have to do soon. The essays keep coming as they always do, but I really like the classes I am taking. One of them is on the Mighty Handful and its Legacy (Rimsky-Korsokov, Balakirev, Mussorgsky, etc..) and the other is on Early Sacred Music. They take their choral music here very seriously since all of the early choral music in English IS English (Tallis, Byrd, etc.). I really like it, and I wish we had an equivelant to it back home. Their chapels here are pristine. They hold evensongs weekly, and the one that I sing in is going to start a Compline service once a fortnight (compline is the oldest still practiced service in the Catholick church, not to be confused with Catholic). Going to a friend's birthday tonight in black-tie, so I'm sure I will have cool and suave pictures to post for next time. Oh, it snowed A LOT Monday and I took part in an enormous midnight snowball fight! Watching the snow-deprived English was a hoot! Good pictures from that will come later too. Love all. Miss all. Talk to you soon.

Cody