{"id":4264,"date":"2014-10-06T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=4264"},"modified":"2014-10-06T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T14:34:26","slug":"postcards-to-the-core-from-london-fall-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/10\/06\/postcards-to-the-core-from-london-fall-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards to the Core: From London, Fall 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Frances Gossen — stalwart Core office staffer, campus lit mag editor<\/a>, and all-around positive personality — is currently immersed in her study abroad program in London. However, she’s gladfully finding time to travel, and took time out of her gallivanting to send us a briefkaart<\/em><\/a> from Amsterdam.\u00a0An excerpt:<\/p>\n

Hello from Amsterdam (technically London, but life has been a bit hectic)! I don\u2019t think I could describe how exciting and new everything is here even with ten postcards, so you must be assured that whatever I write encapsulates only half of what I feel. Monday, I was privileged enough to see a play, My Perfect Mind<\/i>, a modernization of King Lear<\/i> connecting the madness and rejection of Lear\u2019s final days with an actor\u2019s life after a stroke. It was a wonderfully energetic and heartrending play; hopefully my life here will consist of many more.<\/p>\n

The news in London is all of the Scottish Referendum; the British have a strange way of viewing their colonies, if one could consider Scotland a colony. There\u2019s a sense of pride there, it seems, that leads them to be sensitive. I have to say, I\u2019m more interested in the elaborately beautiful, hundreds of years old edition of the King James Bible I saw today at Hampton Court. Along with every other part of Hampton Court, especially the gardens.<\/p>\n

Best, Frances<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Core loves postcards. If every you’re abroad, don’t worry about the address: “Core Curriculum, Boston University, Boston MA 02215” will in most cases get to us.<\/p>\n

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