The Adventure begins! Ryan and I took off from Chicago at 5:50 CST on a loaded 767 plane headed for London Heathrow. The plane trip went really smoothly(except for the landing, which was surprisingly rough and frightful) - I was able to get a good deal of reading done as well as fall asleep for about 4 hours or so. After arriving at Heathrow, Ryan and I were able to navigate to the Oxford Airline Bus Service Station and arrived in Oxford: Gloucester Green by 10:30. We then began our mile and a half (plus) trek up Banbury Street to our temporary lodging at the Adams' Guest House. We will be here tonight and tomorrow night before we travel to Eynsham to begin Summit Oxford Orientation. The SO orientation will last approximately six days, after which we shall return to the city of spires to become familiar with the layout while settling into our flats(apartments). The Oxford Study Abroad Programme orientation will then begin and continue for five days. Our official time of tutelage at the University of Oxford begins on January 13th. As the date comes closer and closer, I can not wait to see what the Oxford experience has in store, not only academically, but also culturally and spiritually.
Cheers!
-Sp
~ Colossians 1:9-14
"For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you. We continually ask God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all the wisdom and understanding that the Spirit gives, so that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and giving joyful thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of his holy people in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins."~
Excited for you Sam! What are you by up Banbury?
ReplyDeleteMy flat is located at 2 S Parade(tentatively) which is a cross street on N Banbury. :)
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