Catching up as usual...

Hey yall...So, the beer festival was AWESOME!!! Myself and the four other guys I went with reverted to six-year-old-boy-in-toy-store mode when we entered the tent with over 200 beers...we spent 5 1/2 hours there! Most of my friends are starting their exams, so I am left to entertain myself, but I haven't felt too good the past couple of days, so it's not like I could do much anyways. However, immediately before I came under the weather, my friend Josh Jowitt suggested that we have a Pimm's afternoon...so we did. Look up "Pimm's Cup" on wikipedia if you wish, but imagine sangria based on gin with citrus fruits, strawberries, and cucumber slices on ice on a hot summer day with the sun out. We had a great time. Also, when my choir records in a couple of weeks, we will wind up on iTunes, so you will only be a click away from hearing our angellic voices! Enjoy the pictures, and I will try to update this after this weekend since I will be in St. Ives all next week. Much love,

Cody

The week ahead...

Not too much exciting this past week, but I did go to St. John's College Chapel yesterday morning for the sung Eucharist (that's communion for all you Baptists out there). It was a beautiful and very insightful service...more than I can say for the preacher at Queens' Evensong last night....she was a bore. Anyways, tomorrow is Cambridge's Annual Beer Festival! It actually started today, but goes on until Saturday, and we are going tomorrow...Over 200 real ales, 80 ciders and perrys (that's pear-cider), and local wine too...website: http://www.cambridgebeerfestival.com/summer/. Enjoy, I do. Also, Thursday at 1:00 in the neighboring town of Ely, the William Jewell Concert Choir is going to have a concert as a part of their tour of England and Scotland, and I can't wait to go to hear and see my friends from school. After the concert, I intend to show them around Cambridge before they go to evensong at King's College. I have my own evensong that night, so I can't join them, but we are singing great music at the sung Eucharist for Ascension Day. I have really enjoyed getting to know the High Anglican tradition...I promise to update this later on this week with pictures of the beer festival and the choir if they will let me take pictures, but until then I leave you with a gratutitous picture of friends and joy (from left: Luke, Tobias, Me, and Josh)...Much love to all.

Yo! So I have to say that the English Springtime is absolutely wonderful. It has been a cool but sunny 60 or 65 most of the time since I have returned. I have gotten to catch back up with all of my friends here who are starting to stress out about exams (I don't have to take them until the end of my senior year, so although it is nice now, my time will come). Choir has been great so far this term with absolutely wonderful music, and great times with my friends in choir. I have become rather proficient at the game of croquet, and challenge any of you to beat me upon my return. I am starting to prepare for next year, so I am already looking into graduate schools and fellowships (coming back to Cambridge maybe?). Picked up a GRE prep book, and already feeling the pressure to succeed again in that all-too-American fashion. You can take the boy out of America...Also, per my mother's request (happy Mother's day again btw, since I know you will read this soon), I have posted a couple of pictures of the more common streets in Cambridge...what the Brits would call the "High Street." This is very similart to our concept of "Downtown," which they don't understand because it is not geographically "down." I hasten to point out that the "Highstreet" is not "up," and they scamper away in shame in their red coats. As seen in the picture here, The Mitre is one of my favorite pubs in Cambridge...It is right on the river and has an incription inside that reads "Here, many drinks and food rended upon the river once depended." Enjoy the pictures, and I hope to hear from all of you soon. God bless!

It's been a long time...

Dear Everybody,

I know that I have been really crap at these posts ever since I went home, but I'm back, I'm busy, and I am in business...sounded catchy didn't it? Anyways, ever since I have been back, I have just been trying to get used to things again. It is amazing how much you can forget about in a few short weeks. I loved being home, but I also love being here. It is incredible to be taught by the people in this university who quite literally wrote the book on their subjects. The academic atmosphere here is astounding, and it encourages me to look beyond my small little world that seems exponentially smaller as time goes by. I haven't taken many pictures since I have bee back yet, but I do have a few more from France...so here's one of them. This is the choir singing with the cathedral choir at the cathedral in Angers (pronounced "On-sjay" for you French unsavvy) I am slowly coming to terms with the fact that I am here for less than two more months, and am facing the reality of having to face reality when I get back. If any of you reading this feel like giving me a job that doesn't require a sledge-hammer or shovel for when I get back, it would make my life a lot easier :). Much love to all of you, and God bless.

Cody