3rd Week

I just came back from an amazing and exhausting experience learning Scottish dances. Imagine, 2 hours in an enclosed room with 50 people sweating and breathing passionately. King's College hired a Scottish band and a dance instructor to teach some of us Scottish dance routines. Wow. With dances like "strip the willow" (basically I danced with 20 different ladies by swinging them around), and 8-step cave...I am thoroughly exhausted. I planned on initiating the outline process for a paper on risk aversion and wealth, but I think I'm going to rest instead.

So, what have I been up to these past few days?

During the weekend I watched The Rock, I am Legend, and National Treasure 2 in the basement of my apartment. I also went punting, failed to catch a train to Stamford, watched a meager 20 minutes of USA basketball shown by BBC, and ate an amazing brunch at Pembroke College. During the week I have had 2 failed attempts to play basketball (bloody rain...I've never experienced such mercurial weather), made further progress on planning for my backpacking adventure in Spain, and discovered a financial book that I have been buried in for the past 3 nights. It's called Money Game, and the first 2/3 of it is actually pretty fascinating.

This weekend will be quite busy with High Tea, Formal, London, and two extensive papers I need to write. I'm meeting with Professor Vlamis tomorrow to brainstorm on my risk aversion paper (I basically want him to say "well done, that's bloody brilliant...now find your sources"...and then he'll help me find sources to cite...citations can be tedious, but credit must be given where it is due).

I'll probably be updating again after London, so until then
cheers!

By the way, there is a girl at King's who is the most beautiful young woman I have seen in England. I'm quite shy, so when I see her I find myself awkwardly making the hi motion with my hand with no words coming out of my mouth. Yeah, so there's a peek at my shy and trivial romantic life in England.