the Earth-bound adventures of the Lost and Found

21 to 23 November 2008. After a horrendous week of coursework deadlines (gave a presentation on the 19th itself, stayed at the library till 5 a.m. that night to finish my chemistry paper due at noon the next day, woke up early on the 20th to proofread my paper, reprint and submit, then practice for another presentation at 1 pm), I finally got to properly celebrate the last year of my 20's on a tour of different villages along the English Jurassic coast (a UNESCO World Heritage site) in the county of Dorset. This year, though, I had the improbable (and ironic) surprise of actually having a classmate who's exactly my age. We found out we had the same birthday because we were groupmates for that presentation we had on our birthday :P So what's the probability of celebrating your birthday with someone exactly your age? Very small, I'm sure, and probably never again, so this was a rare gift. Because we both had all our November deadlines over last Thursday, we decided to do...

Start:      Nov 5, '08 6:30p Location:      Plymouth For Guy Fawkes Day--remember, remember the fifth of November....

01 November 2008. The magnificent church right beside the Roman baths--with live music from a choir that happened to be practicing when we were there :)

01 November 2008. It was a typical cold, gloomy day, but we were all set to see the lovely city of Bath with its 2,000-year old Roman baths. What I didn't expect was that Bath also had a Fashion Museum, which we got discounted tickets to with our tickets to the baths. I was with my Russian classmate Vera, and Polish friend Dorota, who readily transformed into models once we were inside. Though I wasn't too interested in the displays (it wasn't as comprehensive as I was expecting with such a grand name), at least I got some pretty good pictures of the two. Afterwards, we dropped by the Jane Austen Centre (but didn't go inside), because most of Jane Austen's novels mention Bath.