SADLY, THIS BLOG IS NO MORE, BECAUSE I DON´T HAVE THE TIME TO UPDATE IT.

there´s like 15 computers at the school for 52 people, and it´s only open a few hours a day.. so I don´t have enough time!

Amy

Cambridge England January 13th 2007

The second day in Cambridge, we went punting down the river and saw more of the university. It´s pretty much a boat you stand in the back of and push with a big long pole - a lot harder than in looks or sounds. In the picture, Anya´s attempting to punt, and that´s me and Kat sitting down. Dave´s not in the picture, cuz he got stuck being the photographer :P

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And that pretty much sums up Cambridge. There isn´t much in the town other than the school, but apparently the school is quite large, and there´s a number of bars and things to do on campus. All of the stores and everything else in the town are only open from about 10:00-4:30 or so.

And it was sooo good to see Anya and Dave!! Since there isn´t much to do at night there, we just hung out with them in their apartment, played games and watched TV (and tried to get some rest to get over our jet lag!!)

Cambridge England January 12th 2007

I know I´ve been slacking on updating this thing, but I´m finally settled in in Spain, and have time to do this!

So before I go on to talking about Spain, I´m going to talk about my UK trip. My original plan was to visit my friend Anya (and her husband Dave) who graduated from RPI and is not at Cambridge for her PhD. Then Anya´s friend Kat decided she wanted to visit too, so Kat and I traveled together, and split our time between hanging out with Anya and Dave, and running around seeing other parts of the UK.

First thing that I have to say is that Cambridge University is GORGEOUS. It was built I think in the 12th century, so it has a bunch of amazing old architecture.








Also, the university had a ton of crazy stuff - like the original copy of winnie the pooh, and a some of Newton´s original documents.

To the left is a picture of a descendent of Newton´s apple tree, growing below what used to be Newton´s dorm room when he was at Cambridge.