Once arriving in Cambridge the first item on the itinerary was a tour of the city by Rosie, OCSS coordinator and Cambridge Alumna. This tour included famous bridges, colleges such as King's and Trinity, the Union and Rosie's own former college, Jesus. The students learnt local nicknames for landmarks and colleges, as well as many anecdotes and trivia (apparently you could walk from Cambridge to London on land owned by Trinity College!). Students were also able to explore Jesus College in more detail, and hear about student life from Rosie. The college also was displaying its biannual sculpture exhibit, so the grassy quads were adorned with weird and wonderful art pieces including a fire truck and a series of wrinkled bronze umbrellas!
After some free time which was spent exploring Cambridge's many shops by many of the students (including Joanne, Johanna, Reika, Yuval and Dimy who proudly showed me their purchases), the city was explored via river! Everyone went on a punting tour which included the Backs, the grassy banks onto which many colleges back. Some tour guides let the students have a go - on our boat Jace had a try. He discovered first hand the difficulties of steering when first starting punting! Hopefully this practice will put the students in good stead for punting themselves back in Oxford later in the week.
On the coach back home students kept themselves (and staff) entertained with Liz's new ukulele. The whole bus sang "Wonderwall" by Oasis accompanied by ukulele, followed by a newly written song about activities coordinator Alasdair and his "bad hair", finishing on a rendition of "Happy Birthday" for the other activities coordinator, Isobel.
Rosa, Jace and Lauren on the punt!
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| Nina, Konstantinos, Emma and Jean-Luc enjoying Cambridge |
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