The Fifth of July

It's interesting to be in Britain on the Fourth of July for the second year in a row. We have actually heard fireworks both times, so I guess the British don't mind their colonial cousins and their independence as much as they used to. Also, we heard music for most of the night, muted in our bedroom, and hopefully also in the bedrooms of others. I don't think it was coming from Saint Chads.

Students continue to trickle in, while those of us who came in on Friday get oriented. Chris did her practical walking tour of Cambridge yesterday for about 10 students. Since I forgot my camera, I have no photo record of the tour, which I realize I haven't recorded since we started doing the program.

Besides our students from ASU, we have at least two students from NAU, and one student from Whitworth University (that I know of so far). Besides that, we have a graduated returning student from ASU and Boston University who has elected to go on the program once again. I would say "ironically," but instead I believe "interestingly," this student last attended the program in 1997, when both Diane Facinelli and I were teaching, as well as Paul Hartle. So he felt as though little had changed (except my specific subject matter).