My plan is, of course, to wring absolutely as much out of this fellowship as possible. So I'm having an extremely English Afternoon today. I'm going to a Garden Party, and then I'm Dining In College. Veddy posh!
The garden party is a fundraiser thrown by the Cambridge Jewish community for the Israeli version of the Red Cross. After that, I decided to let Corpus cook dinner for me, since I'm heading out to Leeds tomorrow and didn't want to leave any food in the house for a week.
I have two more academic years left. Three-year research fellowships are a tremendously sweet deal.
Dining in college is more like a meal plan than a restaurant, although the fellows' meals are certainly restaurant quality. As a fellow, I'm entitled to seven free meals a week in college, and they can be either lunches or dinners. The lunches are informal, buffet style, and you don't have to dress up. You just show up to the dining hall, which looks a lot like Hogwarts, sign in, and there's lunch laid out for you. Usually a couple of salads and cold plates, a warm main course, a warm pudding, and a selection of fruit salad, cheese and crackers, and yummy little pastries on another table. Dinner in college is a whole nother beast. And I think it might deserve a whole nother post.
It has been a wild ride! The best part is that now I'm really starting to feel like I know the place, and I've seen the way a typical year works . . . and I don't have to leave just as it's all getting familiar. I can experience it again and really be at home.
I do stay all summer! I have Moved To England for the duration. This is excellent, because not only do I get to enjoy a nicer summer than parts further south, I also get to keep doing my work over the summer, including going to a big enormous Jewish music fair in London in July, which is going to be SO COOL.
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The garden party is a fundraiser thrown by the Cambridge Jewish community for the Israeli version of the Red Cross. After that, I decided to let Corpus cook dinner for me, since I'm heading out to Leeds tomorrow and didn't want to leave any food in the house for a week.
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How does dining in college work? Is it like a meal plan where you're entitled to a certain of number of meals or like a restaurant or what?
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Dining in college is more like a meal plan than a restaurant, although the fellows' meals are certainly restaurant quality. As a fellow, I'm entitled to seven free meals a week in college, and they can be either lunches or dinners. The lunches are informal, buffet style, and you don't have to dress up. You just show up to the dining hall, which looks a lot like Hogwarts, sign in, and there's lunch laid out for you. Usually a couple of salads and cold plates, a warm main course, a warm pudding, and a selection of fruit salad, cheese and crackers, and yummy little pastries on another table. Dinner in college is a whole nother beast. And I think it might deserve a whole nother post.
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