First day of real classes done!

Today I had my first day of the semester! In the morning I went to a class about reading Medieval documents. We jumped right into it and began reading documents. It was quite hard, but seems like a lot of fun. I'm just going to the class because I want to. I can't go to that many because I have compulsory classes for my program which happens at the same time most days. I know I promised a post about my classes and I'm getting there! It's just when I work on it I realize how much I have to do and I go do that instead!

In the afternoon I had my first History of Medicine Seminar. The presenter, Dr. Mark Honigsbaum, talked about Karl Friedrich Meyer and his ideas on disease ecology. I found it interesting but a little hard to follow because not being a mainly medical historian or a doctor I didn't understand all of the medical talk and words. It will probably be something I pick up as this course goes on. At least I'm hoping I do!

This sign is on the road opposite the Natural History Museum. I just really like it and I don't have any other pictures to show you right now.












Today is the first semi-formal dinner at my college. We wear normal clothes under our gowns. I'll try to take some pictures of myself in my gown and post them in one of the following posts. There'll be pictures of me in full sub-fusc (formal dress) after Saturday because we have matriculation that day.

Last week was quite busy. I finished my pre-term Latin on friday which was nice and a little horrifying. Horrifying because it meant that the rest of my classes were about to begin. Last week I also met other people in my program. There are 16 of us! Most of them are doing medical history and I'm pretty sure I'm the only person doing the History of Science in the Medieval period. I also got to meet my supervisors. They seem really awesome and like they'll be a lot of fun to work with! They were really interested in my application letter. They wondered why I took Norwegian and why the Bog Mummy exhibit when I was young effected me so much and how I got to be interested in Medieval Science. They made me feel for the first time like I'm actually going to do well here and that I belong. Since I've gotten here I've had that feeling that I ended up here by accident. I don't think that feeling will go away anytime soon, but it's nice to have people who are interested in me and are excited to work with me.

That's it for now! I have to get to writing two papers and preparing an oral presentation for Thursday!