Colloquy, Confessions, Codex, Cross

Today has been a really good one, and it's not even 5:30 yet! I woke up at 7:45 and had a great breakfast (bread, bacon, apple, eggs, and water) with Mary Beth. Then I had colloquy. Colloquy wasn't the best because I was still really, really tired and didn't contribute much, but the discussion was good to listen to as well. After that, I went back to the room and took a 2 and a half hour nap. THAT was heaven. When I woke up, I went down to the Blue Room and started the reading assignment, this time from St. Augustine's "Confessions". We had to read sixty pages, and I read about forty. It's really, really good. He reminds me a bit of me in terms of how he writes and what he says to God. Except he's got the Psalms down WAY better than I do.

After reading, I went back up to the room and bummed around on the internet a little, getting through another batch of QC and some other stuff. Then Adam and I went to the British Library for the last part of our weekly MAG (Museum and Gallery assignment). We got off at King's Cross (more on that later), and found the library with relative ease. The British Library is a mammoth building that's almost like a museum. Our assingment was to look at the Codex Sinaiticus, which just happens to be the earliest manuscript of the complete New Testament from the 4th century A.D. So that was really impressive. Right next to it were papyrus fragments of the second oldest copy of Paul's letter to the Hebrews. After we looked at that, we wandered around the exhibit a little longer, finding a whole bunch of stuff including an original page of a play written by Shakespeare in his own handwriting.

After the MAG, Adam decided to go back to the Highbury Centre. I, however, fully intended to check out King's Cross. Now we had all been on the Underground part of King's Cross many times. I mean, we go through it every time we take the tube because it's the first stop after the Highbury & Islington station (the one we use). We had even left the tube and walked through the Underground part of King's Cross to transfer onto different lines, like the Piccadilly line. But I've never been in the actual station before. So that's where I went after Adam and I parted ways. And oh my God, it was one of the coolest things I've ever seen! I went all the way back to the platforms, right next to the actual trains! I could've gotten in one if I wanted to! The station was massive and loud and busy, and whistles were going off and it was just nuts! There were no steam engines, of course. I think they use all-electric now. But they're still trains! I wandered around like a kid in a candy shop for about 10 minutes, just walking up and down the platforms, looking into the trains, watching people load their luggage onto trolleys. I even found Platform 9 and 3/4 from Harry Potter! (I didn't try walking through it, though.) It's not in the same location as the movies, but it IS between Platforms 9 and 10, and it even has it's own official sign! I'll take a picture of it some time, but I wanted my first visit to the actual King's Cross to be all to myself, so I left my camera off. That's going to be my policy with all of these big landmarks: first time there is for me, second time is for you.

Well, I've got 25 minutes to do some more reading, and then it's dinner. Then I'll finish reading and maybe watch a movie. Today was really fun and productive. I love/miss/will talk to you later!