Just returned from my first field trip with my fellow MSc students from Environmental Change & Management (about 40 of us in total).....
The field trip was great! It went like this .... Friday we drove for 4 hours to the south coast of Britain to stay for the weekend at an environmental research and educational centre.
Saturday we went on nature walks and had mini-lectures outdoors about environmental mangement issues in a local nature reserve. We got rained on repeatedly, got our feet wet (repeatedly, despite our wellington boots), and then went to the pub in town - repeat the same for Sunday (except this time we stopped at a pub for lunch and it didn't rain as much) and then back to Oxford.
Probably the best part of the trip was spending time getting to know the other students on the trip.... We are a very diverse group, the average age in the course is about 27, many already have multiple degrees from backgrounds as diverse as Engineering, Enviromental Science, Business, and Law. As is generally the case with graduate students at Oxford, we are a very international and well travelled bunch....many are from the USA, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada (4 Canuks in total)....others are from parts of Europe, China, India, Ghana, Israel, Brazil, Peru, and so on.....
Saturday night we decided to jump into the Atlantic together.....it was fun, but very cold - no pictures provided.
This coming week are more orientation programs and welcoming events (for my department and for Linacre College) ........ so when does school actually start around here? I think it might be a bit of a shock when it does.
2 comments:
Man that looks beatiful. your life is hilarious right now, I'm jealous!
If I'm in the neighbourhood I'm visiting. . . that's all there is to it.
righto chap! well done!
pop on by whenever, we'll have a blasty blast!
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