These are two of the planes hanging in the hall of the Imperial War museum. Dad I hope you can confirm what they are, I am hoping the far one is the sopwith, it was either this one or the one next to it that is not in the photo.
This is me and the sopwith (hopefully).
Pretty boat! So I dont have a picture with me and the boat (sorry, ship, but get over it). This one is the Victory, the 18th century ship.
This is me and Canterbury Cathedral, which you will hear more about further down in this blog.
Me and more Canterbury.
These are my pretty wellies that I got on sale (remember?), since you havent seen them yet.
So last Saturday I went to Canterbury, well everyone at the castle pretty much went (escept the sickies). I was in the first group to be brought around the Cathedral by our art history prof. She was peeved because she has to wear this weird cloth thing around her neck and pay money to give the tours as only people that work there are supposed to. You will notice there are no pictures of inside the Cathedral because you had to pay somewhere between £5 to £10 to take photos inside and I figured I wouldbuy a book instead that had the same pictures I would have taken and info besides. I was a very mellowing experience again, I seem to keep having those. It was very old and very beautiful, it actually made me want to attend a mass there, just because I think it would be gorgeous. I can really explin it better than that I am afraid, it is rather difficult to describe.
After the tour I went and grabbed lunch and then went on my expedition to find organizational stuff for my room. I found this adorable store that had everything I wanted but I decided to look at some other places to see if I could find things more ... inexpensive. Instead I found many cute shoe and clothing stores that made me feel like Jesus when he went into the desert for 40 days. Temptation sucks! Canterbury by the way I think is one of my favourite places we have gone. I just love the cobble stoned streets and the outdoor shops and even the type of shops and the atmosphere. It even smelled amazing! It smelled old and unique. I eventualy made my way to my afternoon feild study, the Canterbury Tales. You basically walked through this building and got these audio guides who would tell you the stories of the Canterbury tales, but in a way you could understand more easily. We walked through in groups of 12 and there would be wax figures and plasic set ups telling the stories. It was kind of simple, but still for some reason incredibally fun! The best part is at the end there wasnt really any good souvineers (again!) so I just got a bookmark and another poster for my room. Guess what it is!? It was a big pink poster with a black playboy bunny symbol in the middle with playmate scribbled accross the middle. Why this was being sold a Canterbury Tales tour I do not know, but it is perfect for our room!
Anywho I then got some very interesting luck. I went into an HMV just to look around anf found a British show I have always wanted to see. The problem was I kept telling myself it wasnt that expensive but some little voice inside my head kept telling "no Libby, just wait." So very recluctantly I put it down and continued on my way. Eventually I ran into this DVD Music store and decided to look inside. Of course I find the same show for two thirds of the price! I cannot deny a sign like that! I mean how sweet! So after that business I still had to get my room supplies. I love getting supplies, it makes me feel so organized! I love feeling organized! Even better I ran into Sara at the store with a friend of hers who is going to school in Kent. So I walked around with them for a while until we had to make our way to the busses. Sara and I got tlking about some interesting stuff. She told me about this volunteer abroad thing that sounds very interesting and that I would definately like to try either before or right after I graduate. Heres the link in case anyone is intersted. http://www.projects-abroad.org/
To be honest the rest of my week was uneventful. I mostly did my art history essay and studied for other various classes. Today was intersting though. As I was walking back from lunch with a bunch of people we saw a whole bunch of other people attempting to climb this excelent climbing tree, so we stopped to join in their efforts. At first I decided not to since I only had flipflops on. Instead I hung out with the people on the bottom. Eventually everyone on the ground began playing with the intense amount of leaves that had fallen. We began piling them up and then they would jump on them. After the origional people left the rest of us of course had a leaf fight. It was disgusting with all the wet leaves, but terribly fun! We were all covered in leaves by the end. After that we decided, what the hey, we may as well give it a try (climbing the tree). The thing is to get up you had to wrap your arms around the nearest branch that was about 5.5 feet up and pull your legs up so they wrapped around the bottom too. Then you had to somehow swing your body around so that you were hugging the tree from on top. I dont know how I did it, but I actually ended up doing it with the most minimal of help. I guess I am stronger than I thought! So of course I kept going until I got as high as I would allow myself. If I had gone any further I am not sure if I would have been able to get down! So basically for the next hour we would climb around the tree chatting and joking switching places and just plain be silly. Pretty much everyone ended up in the tree at least once. I will have to somehow get the pictures from the guy who had the camera (Eric). I relaxed in the tallest part for a while, basically straddling the branch I was on and leaning my upper body out of the place it split off into two. Getting down was the hard part, I ended up scraping the whole side of my leg against the branch and leaving a pretty nice cut, but to be honest I could not care less, it was the best experience I had all week.
I never did tell you about Thanksgiving. On monday the kitchen staff made a Thanksgiving meal. They did a pretty good job, but it wasnt really the same. It kinda made me realise that the actuall food we have on Thanksgiving isnt my favourite, its not stuff that I miss all year, if you understand what I am talking about. So to be honest the meal didnt really appeal to me that much. Plus when I ate I had come right from a class and then I had 40 minutes to get my food and eat before my 3 hour film class. It didnt really feel like thanksgiving, but I dont mind. Its finally turning to fall here (slowly but surely) so as long as I get my favourite season I am good! Its soo funny because the leaves are slowly falling, but the grass is still this intense green. The tree experience today felt like fall because in the spot we were at you couldnt see the grass it was covered by so many leaves. I thin winter will be more like Canadian fall, or at least thats what it sounds like from what I have heard.
I might not have the next blog until Saturday of next week as I leave for Edinburgh and Liverpool and Cardiff on Sunday. Have a great week everyone!
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