Week 10 - Wednesday

I awoke at about 8.30 when Helena, my landlady, went out. The alarm of the house (all the houses in Fenham have alarms!) always makes this funny noise when the door opens. No problem, let’s read some more Vergil. Aeneas has left Dido and wandered about on the Mediterranean for a while. Now he has come ashore in Italy. In Book seven, king Latinus wants to marry his daughter to Aeneas, but her fiancé Turnus is not quite happy with that… At ten I fell asleep again and had wonderful dreams (however, I don’t remember them) before my alarm clock officially started the day at eleven. Normally I had a Jane Austen lecture at 10 but it was cancelled. Took a quick shower, suddenly realising that I still couldn’t use my bike and had to reserve half an hour for walking to the uni. This walk takes me through several park greens (some with paths, some very muddy…) and is quite enjoyable! Prof. Moles said loads more about book 7 of the Aeneid than I did above. Interesting things, really! He knows an awful lot about it. Moreover, I really like his style of teaching: he nearly always has hand-outs for us on which the trail of the lecture is out-lined as if it was in his brain: just words and phrases one after another.
I quickly checked my emails in the library and then did some Latin. In the evening I reprogrammed the television at home so that Helena could record ‘Love Actually’ for me. I was going to the social, tonight in Enigma. Talked to Pierre again, evaluating the recovery of our limbs from the weekend. I met another French guy and practised my French for a change! Anyway, it was a very agreeable evening. Too agreeable to futilize on the Internet by some necessarily dull phrases.