Wanna be back in Oxford!
I just got the Old Members' email (who wants to be Johnny Foreigner's Latin alumni when you can be good old English old) from my old college and it's full of tantalizing tidbits. I normally say that the weather in England is always strictly worse than in Berkeley but currently we have rain and they have...
Oxford has been covered with snow and it really does make everything look so beautiful. It has also brought out the child in nearly everyone with an increase in snowball fights and a rather impressive array of snowmen (or in reference to the example that was in Front Quad, snowwomen) dotted around the city centre.
Also, I leave the college choir and suddenly (well... three years later) they have all these fun things happening:
On Sunday 11th February 2007, BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' will be broadcasting a live programme at 8.10am from Jesus College Chapel. Sir John Houghton, former head of the Met Office and Old Member and Honorary Fellow of the College will be articulating why Christians should be at the forefront of concerns about climate change.
For those of you who prefer a bit more of a lie-in on a Sunday morning or are in a different time zone, you can hear the programme throughout the following week, at any time of day by going to the BBC's Listen Again service
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As well as the usual services, Jesus College Chapel Choir are leading eight other colleges in a Corporate Evensong in the University Church, and broadcasting live in BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' programme (see above). On top of all this, the high point has to be the up-coming choir tour to Rome. For six days in July, the choir will stay in Rome, and sing services and concerts in many venues including Santa Maria Maggiore, All Saints' Church, and St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
We only every got to go to Oxfordshire villages and Wales!
That said, we have some good stuff coming up at Newman choir-wise in the next few weeks, so I shouldn't moan too much. I don't think they'll furnish me with snow, though...
[Italisized quotes used by virtue of fair use. They're probably copyright Alison Profitt-White, Old Members' Officer, Coll. Iesu, Oxon.]
Oxford has been covered with snow and it really does make everything look so beautiful. It has also brought out the child in nearly everyone with an increase in snowball fights and a rather impressive array of snowmen (or in reference to the example that was in Front Quad, snowwomen) dotted around the city centre.
Also, I leave the college choir and suddenly (well... three years later) they have all these fun things happening:
On Sunday 11th February 2007, BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' will be broadcasting a live programme at 8.10am from Jesus College Chapel. Sir John Houghton, former head of the Met Office and Old Member and Honorary Fellow of the College will be articulating why Christians should be at the forefront of concerns about climate change.
For those of you who prefer a bit more of a lie-in on a Sunday morning or are in a different time zone, you can hear the programme throughout the following week, at any time of day by going to the BBC's Listen Again service
...
As well as the usual services, Jesus College Chapel Choir are leading eight other colleges in a Corporate Evensong in the University Church, and broadcasting live in BBC Radio 4's 'Sunday Worship' programme (see above). On top of all this, the high point has to be the up-coming choir tour to Rome. For six days in July, the choir will stay in Rome, and sing services and concerts in many venues including Santa Maria Maggiore, All Saints' Church, and St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
We only every got to go to Oxfordshire villages and Wales!
That said, we have some good stuff coming up at Newman choir-wise in the next few weeks, so I shouldn't moan too much. I don't think they'll furnish me with snow, though...
[Italisized quotes used by virtue of fair use. They're probably copyright Alison Profitt-White, Old Members' Officer, Coll. Iesu, Oxon.]