oxford, pierce brosnan, and harry potter

well this past weekend i had the wonderful opportunity to go see the pretty town of oxford. it was absolutely beautiful. i went with my class, british life and culture, the one where we take killer fieldtrips. anyways the day that we chose to go was matriculation day for all the students. i am not sure what this means but its a cermony for all the new students where they have to dress up in their robes and wear black and white. its real crazy, they all look so old fashion. anyways so a lot of the colleges were closed but we still got to see a lot of the city.
anyways so we always go about the city with our prof. phillip, who is so cool and he is my favorite ever, on a walking tour and he tells us really interesting things. but we were walking through one part of the city and my flatmate, amaya, and i were walking ahead of the group and we noticed this very dashing man who looked JUST like pierce brosnan. it was so crazy we thought it was just a guy who happened to look like him, cause you know they say that everyone has a twin...BUT NO IT WAS HIM. IT WAS PIERCE BROSNAN!!!! HOW CRAZY IS THAT????
he didnt really look like this picture cause he is not that young anymore but he had some grey hair and we was tall. he is about 6'1 ish. yes mama he was a tall one. so that was pretty cool. my guess he was there to watch a kid go through matriculation...but i dont know. so that was my brush with fame. and it was amazing!!!!!

after pierce and i caught up on the old times my group continued on our walking tour. and the walking tour brought us to christ church which is the main college in oxford. see oxford university is made up of 37 different colleges all with their own different buildings. and most of the colleges you dont see unless you go that particular college since they are usually behind tall walls or hedges. but the ones that you do see always have giant courtyards and they are so pretty. but christ church is not only the biggest college but also the place where they filmed some of the scenes for all the harry potter movies. they filmed some scenes with professor mcgonagall waits where she is waiting for some first years to come up the staircase and then the great hall/dinning hall is at christ church as well. so that was really cool to see both of those!!!!!


but besides that we just tootled around and looked at a lot of really old buildings...but thats what you do when you are in england, you look at old buildings. but anyways that is pretty much my oxford experience. OH WAIT no there is more i also went to the eagle and child pub where c.s. lewis and j.r. tolkein met like every tuesday for like 20 years discussing their work. so that was pretty cool.