Thursday, 1 May 2008

May Day

While Germany celebrates Labour Day and Ascension Day, the British celebrate May Day and in Oxford especially May Morning.

I thought that the fact that our flat is only one minute away from Magdalen Bridge where everyone meets on Max Morning would give me a big advantage, but it turned out that the bridge was not only closed for cars this morning but for everyone.





The reason for that is, that over the last years quite a number of drunken people jumped from the bridge into the River Cherwell which is so shallow that they got seriously injured.

So I had to wait till the singing was over and the bridge was opened before I could meet some of the other MBAs. Ok, there would have been a way around the bridge but at 5:30 in the morning it was way too early to decide quickly enough to not miss the choir :-)


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