Hi everyone,
this is Ashley here,do you remember me,my wife Karen and son Gary from the 5th July cruise.
Anyway i would like to share some good news with you.
our son Gary got straight A's in his final school exams ,in fact getting one of the highest marks in the UK in Physics.
He was offered a place at Cambridge University,Emmanuel College Where he started in October.Cambridge University is currently rated top in the UK ,even ahead of Oxford.
Emmanuel college was founded in 1584 ,and many famous people have attended there ,including John Harvard(who founded Harvard,the first american University),and also the governor of the Bank of England,so Gary has a lot to live up to.
They have quite an interesting web site and Webcam if anyone is interested.
http://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/
The students there get all their meals provided,their rooms cleaned for them and even their laundry is done for them.There are also beautiful grounds and immaculately kept gardens surrounding the college.so not a bad life.(If Disney ran a University it would be like Emmanuel College Cambridge).
There is a lot of history surrounding the College and they get a lot of tourists,and gary gets quite a buzz telling them that he actually lives in these historic buildings.
He has also taken up rowing ,so I think he may be hoping to train hard for the Boat race with Oxford (I dont think so).
Sandy i have also discovered that the rules for soccer developed for the football association were invented in Cambridge on a green field called Parkers Piece ,that is next to the college.I think some amateur teams still play there today.
I am sad we will be unable to go on the cruise on 7th August,but we have not yet decided what we are doing this summer and the dates would not fit our schedule.
I hope you do not mind me posting to this site,and I must admit that I have been following the goings on from the sidelines.
Ashley