Museums

Yesterday we went to the Natural History and The Pitt Rivers museums. Both museums were different but very interesting and impressive.

In the National History museum the main exhibitions were about dinosaurs, insects and many sorts of animals. Human's evolution, fosils and minerals from all over the world.
In the Pitt Rivers each of us had one specific topic to investigate about.

Adrian and Pablo's theme was about the use of smoking and stimulants throughout time: The Mayans were the first culture to use tobacco. Drugs were mostly used for religious rituals, medicinal purposes and connecting to different dimentions.

Melissa's investigation was about magic, witchcraft and wizardry. It was very interesting because it showed the different beliefs from different cultures around the wolrd. Their ideologies had things in common although they lived far appart. There were many sorts of objects used for magical purposes like amulets for protection and talismans for good luck, and healing.

Miriam's topic was about ships and boats. Boats stareted in Mesopotamia as a way of transportation, they evolved into trading and commertial ships. There were  many kinds of vessels from cannoes, to rafts, to big war ships.

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Museums and literature

In the last couple of days we have visited a couple of museums and some of the most important places for literature that Oxford has to offer, all of this places seem to have a strange mist that takes you to a different time and a place beyond imagination.
Just the architecture of the colleges, churches and museums starts giving you this magical feeling, and even if just for a while, when you enter this places you forget your problems, and everything seems unreal.
The museums are all stuffed with knowledge and history collected throughout time.
The colleges and churches are all magestic and very peaceful and beautiful.
All in all, this is a wonderful city filled with knowledge, mistery and magic.

Literature around Oxford

On a really nice and sunny day we visited: Christ Church College, Alice Shop, Magdalean College & Bridge. We found the architecture most impressive, because it has been preserved for hundreds of years. We discovered that one of the towers was constructed in the norm gothic style. When we entered to the Great Hall, where Harry Potter was filmed, we thought it was going to be more spooky, but realized the contrary. Still it's fascinating and dazzling. 
To conclude our tour we went to Alice Shop where we found ourselves dragged into the magical world L. Carrol created.

Montse, Miriam & Maria