Sarah's MindSay Blog

The Conclusion

britlit — 2006-07-21T10:07:29-05:00

So I realize that you thought that this blog was finished, and for good reason—I haven’t written in months. At first the time and effort involved in settling back in at home kept me away from the computer, and thus...

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Finding a Bed in Florence

britlit — 2006-06-05T09:06:02-05:00

I prepared for my trip to Florence by reading EM Forsters A Room With A View, but the book, however much fun to read, was misleading because it implied there would be rooms to sleep in in Florence. We've had a...

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Pisa

britlit — 2006-05-31T10:05:01-05:00

Greetings from Pisa. Everybody I spoke to while I was planning this trip wrinkled their noses when they heard I was stopping in Pisa for three days. "Pisa is a hole," one of my friends put it bluntly, "there's nothing...

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A Sneeze and a Smile

britlit — 2006-05-30T09:05:24-05:00

Writing from Bologna, where the keyboards are erratic at best, much like the busses. My hostel is located slightly outside of town, and there is a special bus that runs to the center of the city every two hours. When I...

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Venice

britlit — 2006-05-24T01:05:52-05:00

I had to take a final exam last week on eighteenth century literature. The entire thing took me two hours and involved writing two essays--one on Fielding and one on Johnson. That was my final exam for school, but this...

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Churchill's War Room

britlit — 2006-05-22T10:05:15-05:00

So it's been ages since I've written, and I feel guilty about that of course, but I have a decent excuse. My father came to visit me from the US last week and I had a great time taking him around London and showing all...

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Robot Elephants

britlit — 2006-05-15T10:05:44-05:00

There are some things that are cool about London, but you see them every day and slowly become inured to their coolness. Those red phone boxes, for instance, or the phrase “mind the Gap,” on the Tube, these things...

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A Lonely Jew in London

britlit — 2006-05-12T09:05:48-05:00

The nice weather we’ve been experiencing recently has taken me not just to the city parks, but to the suburbs as well. After I posted that seemed to be no Jews in London, I got a bunch of posts from family and friends...

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Sunny London

britlit — 2006-05-08T09:05:54-05:00

What is better than anything else in the whole world? London in the sunshine. I discovered this when we were blessed with an entire week of London sun. Suddenly I was incapable of doing anything—cleaning my room,...

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Bath: The Visual Tour

britlit — 2006-05-04T10:05:16-05:00

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