How I almost went to Amsterdam, got hit by a car, and finally started having adventures in England

I've been excited about studying abroad with the honors college in Oxford since Dr. Snyder and Dr. Anderson mentioned it would be a good way to supplement my grad school application. Of course, going to live in England has nothing to do with my excitement at all.
When I got on the plane Monday in Gulfport to meet my connecting flight to London in Atlanta, I thought everything was going to be fine.
I was wrong.
Because a thunderstorm formed over the Atlanta airport, my plane was diverted to Augusta. Where we were held for an hour, which lead to me missing my flight in Atlanta. And then Delta decided my best option was to fly to Amsterdam at 10:40 that night and then catch a flight from there to London, which would keep me from getting to Oxford until at least five o'clock on Tuesday. So I wasn't exactly happy. Luckily, after reaching Atlanta and calling and begging Delta, I was put on the standby list for an 8:45 flight to London. By then, it was eight o'clock, so I ran to the terminal. And, thankfully, I managed to get onto the flight. (Although my luggage did not, and my best guess is that it went to Amsterdam without me before meeting me in London. But that's another story).
After talking to my neighbor (who was a really interesting guy with a lot of good stories), I managed to fall asleep to "When Harry Met Sally" and didn't wake up until we were supposed to land. It turns out, I was in for more bad luck because my plane didn't land on time. We were an hour late. And my luggage wasn't due to meet me for another hour and a half. So, because I assumed the rest of the group had already left, I decided to wait for my luggage. And I happened to meet with Casey and Melissa, two girls from my group who had also lost their luggage.
We finally found our luggage (after going through security again. Except through the staff security). But then when were supposed to get on the train to terminal five we got on the train that goes to Paddington. Which costs money. So, devoid of sleep and exhausted from running around the airport, I lost what common sense I had left. So when the sales representative came around asking for tickets I didn't know what was going on. He told me that the tickets would be for the bus to Oxford. And I bought a round trip.
Yeah, that ticket was totally for the train. And I wasted money. But, I can now go from Paddington to the airport for free. Because I totally need that.
So after we finally made our way to terminal five, we got on the bus, nothing else bad happened, and we made our was to the OSAP (Oxford Study Abroad Programme) office. And, after catching the end of the welcome party, we took our luggage to our flats (which are very nice).
We went to the Red Lion Pub to get food and basically called it a night and walked back to the flats.
And that's when the car hit me.
Well, it almost hit me. I moved to the side so it just clipped me. So my right side hurt a bit for a day. It could have been worse.

For the record, the walk back (as you can see above) is really, really pretty. And, for once, the weather has been really nice.
Tuesday was a busy day as well. We woke up early, had orientation sessions at the OSAP office and then went to get our Bodleian Library cards (which is the University of Oxford's library).
As you can guess, I was super excited about my library card and going to the library. In order to get our cards, we had to recite an oath promising to follow the rules of the library (including not bring in or lighting a naked flame into the library).

Fun fact: Charles I was denied permission to borrow a book from the library. He actually later moved his court to Oxford during the war.
After leaving the library (which we did, unfortunately), we went on a walking tour of Oxford. A really short walking tour.

Which included Trinity College, which most of the MSU students are members of (I'm a member of Christ Church instead). According to our tour guide, walking in the grass is a hanging offense.
We went to a few other places and then headed back to the office. And then we found food and a grocery store.
Today came earlier than any other day for some reason ... and we again attended orientation lectures at OSAP. We were inducted into our colleges, which meant visiting (for me) Harry Potter sets and another library. But I didn't take pictures because I didn't want to look like a tourist. Fun fact: Our dining hall is the same on in the Harry Potter movies.
After we finished at Christ Church, we went to Blackwell's (a huge bookstore). And, amazingly enough, I walked out with only a few photos as souvenirs (mainly because all the rare books cost thousands of pounds, and I doubt my parents would be happy if I came home with a book too valuable to use).

As you can see, there are a lot of books. And that's only part of the basement level. I didn't want to leave.
We had our first day of our Tolkien lecture with Dr. Snyder, and it seems like it's going to be a really fun class.
And we ate Indian food. That was delicious. And something new ... because they're like two Indian restaurants in all of Mississippi.
Our table kept moving our discarded dishes onto the table next to us and for some reason, they didn't notice. For some reason, this was very amusing.

But you haven't even heard the best part yet: Tomorrow is London day.
Know what that means?
Shakespeare. At. The. Globe.
How is that not exciting?