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July 16 – August
14, 2018 – “The London 15” – OBU Student Abroad in London, England
This summer, I had the privilege of spending a month
in England with a group of 15 students from Oklahoma Baptist University. Dr. Lindsey Panxhi (an English faculty
colleague) and myself, along with our respective spouses, conducted a
faculty-led Study Abroad that spent four weeks on the ground in London teaching
OBU courses to OBU students while being immersed in the culture and history of
Great Britain. These are our stories!
Wednesday,
August 1 – Oxford!
Early morning – 6AM departure! As expected our young lady whose sister
attempted suicide did not come – she was finally sleeping and getting some
much-needed rest. Vanessa had already
planned to stay behind, and offered to do laundry for the team: 4 bags of “gifts”
were left outside our door for her to take care of. 
The rest of us … on to Oxford! 6AM departure to the tube to Marble Arch,
where we caught the 6:30AM “Oxford Tube”—a double-decker bus from London to
Oxford City Center. The bus took about
90 minutes altogether. We got there in
plenty of time for our 9AM tours—Lindsey took 4 students on a guided extended
tour of the famous & extensive Bodleian Library; the other 13 of us did a
walking tour of town. Our guide was
young – a 2nd-year history major.
She knew her stuff, and was very cheery and pleasant. We learned some about the town history,
including its use as a
