STUDY ABROAD AT OXFORD UNIVERSITY

I remember my preconceptions about England before I made my way across the Atlantic Ocean to London Heathrow airport. I imagined everyone would be very proper, that I would pick up the accent after a few months, and that Oxford—the university at which I was studying abroad—would be full of people too brilliant to have time to speak with me. Well, contrary to what some Americans believe, many of the English are not very proper at all! This is especially so at Oxford, where the students tend to work hard for a couple of days and then dash off to the pubs and nightclubs to relax. Granted, most of the pub conversations included a lot more philosophy than I was used to hearing in the bars of San Francisco, but amongst students, these "conversations" often turned into passionate debates, with very little thought given to being polite [...]More at Transitions Abroad