Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful....

It's so cold! But, it's also been snowing! Apparently this is much colder than it usually is at this time of the year, but after buying some camping socks and finally seeing SNOW, I can't complain. We haven't had any snow days, but how could we when we have a Christmas play to plan! Somehow I ended up choreographing our class dance to Take That's Shine...let's just say my dancing skills are comparable to that of a typical five year old.


We are trying to check off every part of NY Times 36 hours in Cambridge to-do list. So, we went to the Fitzwilliam Art museum and while the Sussanian coin section was of little interest, the British, French, and Italian rooms were amazing. Then we went to Ellie's Russian symphony where we heard the world's youngest (not really) pianist whose Justin Beiber haircut bounced along with every note. On Sunday we finally went punting! Although it was negative degrees (still don't really understand what that means in celcius...) we bundled up with blankets that may or may not have stolen from another punt. Although soaking wet and tired from punting all day, our guides told us a lot about the colleges we were passing, 90% of which they said was true, 10% purely entertaining. Definitely enjoyed the 10% the most.

Then, we went to a Candlelit Carol Service! Because the students are leaving this week, the church essentially had an early Christmas Eve service for the students. Candlelit was an understatement. There were candles everywhere. Seriously. We sat in the balcony and there was teeny ledge with tons of candles on it. It felt like if we breathed too hard they'd fall and we'd burn the whole place down. Anywho, in spite of the fire hazard, and the speaker (I'm not going to go there, but there were children and he said something terrible about Santa) it was a beautiful service!


Yesterday was Emily's birthday!! We woke up to a beautiful, birthday-filled dining hall, with a cake on the breakfast table...had some more biscuits at class, went to dinner and then back to the B&B to eat cake with Pete! And because you asked, Katherine -


Apparently December 1 is the traditional first day of the Christmas season, it's snowing (!!!!) and we have dress rehearsal for the Christmas play tomorrow!!