Wales

On Wednesday past, the program went to Wales for 3 days/2 nights. It was amazing! Wales was beautiful, it's very similar to the Pacific Northwest with trees and foliage everywhere plus rain. Though the weather held out until the last day for us (Yay!!). Martin and the visiting professor, Cheryl, went with the students. Martin planned out full days of sightseeing for us, most of the time acting as our tour guide (he's incredibly knowledgeable about the history of the UK). We got to see Cheltenham an old Regency spa town, then on our way to our hostel for the night we visited Highnam Church, a small Gothic Revival church that had been entirely painted by its patron. the next day we went to Chepstow Castle and Tintern Abbey and celebrated one of the program girls' birthday. Then, on the last day, we went to Gloucester Cathedral. The tour of the Cathedral was great, it was really interesting, plus the tour guide pointed out the different parts of the Cathedral that had been used in the filming of the Harry Potter Movies. The whole trip was a lot of fun and really interesting. Plus, Wales and England are just very beautiful places so driving around to all these different places was a lot of fun. This half of the term is really busy both with program excursions and with my own trips to different places. next week I'm going to 2 plays, Parliament, and then to Paris for the weekend, the week after to Hampton Court Palace, Bath and hopefully another play. Then, it's already June and the end of the program looms ever closer. It doesn't seem like I'll have enough time to go and do everything that I want. I still want ot see Tower Hill and a football match plus I want to see at least 3 more plays before I go, and then I have to remember to go to classes....