Lunch at St Edmund’s College

Chong insists that we should try lunching at different colleges, to see what other colleges are like, but really, it’s the cheap meals he’s after. A good course meal costs less than 3 pounds, a much better deal than cold sandwiches from Sainsbury or M & S, plus, free drinking water too. We’ve been to 2 other colleges for meals, - Hughes Hall (Chong’s college) and Wolfson College (a Singaporean friend). Both served reasonable food but not this one today.

Chong’s course mate, an Italian brought us there. The meal was horrid. The rice Chong bought me was practically uncooked, with some miserable portion of minced beef sauce. Chong volunteered to exchange his with mine, not much better, I ate it up anyway, cos everyone else on the table did, though no one really enjoyed the meal, we cleaned the plates.

The fellowship was better, the largest group of whites we came in contact with thus far. A French student doc in his 5th yr, another Italian undergrad and a German girl. But we’re probably not going to see this bunch of people very much more. Some more acquaintances , eh?