oxford in winter

winter
Christmas light

christmas shop
winter

Summer Eights｜牛津夏日赛船盛事

Keble's Boat House
Cute sun glasses
Keble MCR member
Ready to start
Jonathan is in Queen's M2 team. They got hit/bumped?
sunny sunny sunny





fun just began after the competition

Scotland | 风之谷，苏格兰

With the news of Swine Flu
On the way to the Scotland

The wind was strong
The air was fresh
The view was breath taking
And the journey was so different: you never know what kind of weather in the next five minutes

Scotland
Scottish

York, nice city in north England | 约克的美丽春天

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Volunteer work in the Museum of the History of Science | 牛津科学史博物馆

During the break of Hilary term, I tried several things I planned but never found time to do. Volunteer work for the Museums of Oxford is one of them. April 4th, as the volunteer for a special event, I worked in the Museum of the History of Science.

This museum locates on the broad street, the centre of Oxford, neighbour to the Sheldonian Theatre and the Bodleian Library. Compare to the Museum of Natural History, this one is much smaller (that's why they require all visitors with backpacks put the bags in front of the bodies) but also provides rich collections and events.

The collections are not just in the exbition rooms but everywhere. For example, along the stairs there are huge equipments. Upper is an inner of a huge clock.

April 4th was a special "Astronomy Day" of "the English Telescope from Newton to Herschel" exhibition. The visitors can enjoy Sun Observation, special guided tour and talks provided by many experters.

I visited the museum again to watch The English telescope exhibition. The exhibition was in the underground. See from the structure and the wall, this room was quite old. But the conditions of the old telescopes it showed were much nicer than I thought. It was a good experience to learn how people develop the telescope gradually thus led the descoveries of outer space and micro space.

Besides special exhibitions, the regular collections are interesting too. Like the "Einstein blackboard".
Finally I want to show you one special thing-- a sophisticated huge lock It's the lock of the door of the museum and normally you can't see it as a visitor!

Nuffield College | 牛津，Nuffield学院游

Though the Nuffield College is only five minutes' walk from SBS I never walked in. But each time when I pass it, the pond attracted my attention. At the end of March, right after the exam of Hilary term, I decided to take a look there. Like the St. Cross, Nuffield is a graduate college too and is also a cozy one. It took me less than ten minutes walking around.

There is a quite special plant, all the leaves are symmetrical!

St. Cross College | 牛津，St. Cross学院游

There are 39 colleges in Oxford. It's always a interesting journey to visit a new college. Though all the colleges belong to the Oxford university, each of them has its own character. Like the Wadham, founded in 1610, has a very modern libry! While Keble, founded in 1870, has a much older, traditional library.

I went to several colleges during this Spring term break (most colleges are closed to visitors during break, but a member of Oxford can enter freely to almost all of them). But some places of the colleges, like the library, the dining hall, the MCR...only the member of that college can show me. Lucky I had JB show me St. Cross College this time.

St. Cross, locates on the St. Giles road, looks very old. But I didn't know till that day that it is a newly founded college: was formed on 1960s. What a "young" one in Oxford!

St. Cross is a graduate college which means no undergraduate members there. It's quite small but cozy college combined with two parts: old front yard and modern back yard.

Very comfort Common Room with many newspaper, magazines and a very "Chinese" gong.

Happened watched young students playing ball game. A quite interesting one.

Wish all of you have nice days in this Spring, a peaceful mind and a strong heart.