Snow and Snow

Location: Harlaxton Manor
Mood: Grinning
Tue, 13 Jan

Ok, I love it here!

The manor is so cool. Unfortunately it’s been snowing NON STOP so I haven’t explored the grounds yet. But the place is just amazing. It’s actually the hardest thing about my classes so far. They’re fascinating and great and I WANT to pay attention but I keep getting distracted by all the neat architectural detail. There’s a carved medusa flanking the doors in my British Studies lecture hall, a cupid fresco in the seminar. World classics is in a room located in the midst of labyrinthine staircases (so confusing!). The Psych classroom has family crests everywhere. The Shakespeare class has me staring at the fauns on the fireplace.

The snow has everyone really perplexed. It’s apparently very atypical. Dr. Snow, however, who teaches my British Studies and Shakespeare classes is not perplexing at all. She’s VERY into her teaching and it’s fun to learn from her. (Not QUITE as into it as the choir director. The choir is like elementary music class on speed. Major blast!)

She’s also my head of house. That’s right. We are in houses. Four of them. I’m in Dr. Snow’s Dragons. The other houses are the Harpists, Lions and Unicorns. Everyone has been making the expected Hogwarts jokes.

I won’t bore you with the details of my classes. I’ll just tell you the most exciting thing so far: my Shakespeare class is going to see a production of King Lear. Performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. In Stratford-Upon-Avon.

This semester is going to be so awesome I can’t stand it!