NORTH CAROLINA - Provincial Life

Small American towns tend to be the same: seeing as how they were mostly built at the same times and along the same design. So there isn't a whole lot that needs to be said about Greensboro. It has a nice bakery, and both a YMCA and YWCA. There's a victory for equality. It also has pubs which serve something approaching proper ale and Earl Grey tea (not *quite* good enough to be described as decent, but close)


Isaac plays pool. Every good tea shop should have it. The Green Bean in Greensboro is one of the few that I know. I won, incidentally, despite only having one and a half arms.

Guilford College, meanwhile, had a weekend like any other. Some concerts, more questionnable food items in the cafeteria but this time for a shorter length of time and people bashing each other about with foam swords. I repeat my earlier feeling that I need to spend some time away from students, this stuff just doesn't have the allure it once had. Although the swords looked cool.


The sword fighters of Guilford College duke it out. Now wasn't there some Quaker tenant about pacifism somewhere? I forget.

Back to New York in a day, and although it's not my favourite place in the world it'll be a novelty to be back in the big city, especially since I'll actually spend some time there for once rather than just be using it as one giant airport lounge. Well, after I've made a return trip to Rhode Island, that is...