My Semester Abroad

This week I visited Borough Market with some friends from my floor. Borough hasn't got anything on Pike Place Market, since it sells only food, but what food! I got a jar of raspberry preserves and a bag of dried strawberries (way better than they sound), and sampled exotic fare like orange-flavored olive oil from Italy and feta cheese and olives. The market is near the London Bridge tube stop — convenient because I was able to dash off and just make it to Frisbee practice in time to practice dodging drills.

In my Roman Republic class we just held a mock trial and convicted Julius Caesar of power mongering. The student who played Calpernia kindly asked the prosecutors to refrain from insulting her late husband who had just been stabbed to death, and bristled when they asked about his affair with Cleopatra in Egypt. Cleopatra smiled smugly, and the jury furiously wrote in their notebooks.