>The diversity of people here is crazy. People come here to learn English from all over the world- especially during the summer months because the Universities are not full of regular students. Obv England is closer to most countries travelwise than the western hemosphere but also it is really hard to get a visa in…
>Tonight I went to an International Students Ministry in town. There were like 30 students there! They come here for the summer to learn English and this Christian team runs a cafe inside a gothic church fellowship hall and Asians, Eastern Europeans, and whoever else come there to work on their English and learn about…
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>Oh I really miss junior high kids! I know that is radom. Allen Jenkins posted some old JUMMP pictures on facebook today and I flipped through them and Oh gosh I love those kids and I love that age group and don’t get me wrong, I am so so happy to be in England- I…
>10 hour bus ride. We stopped in Haworth, England, where the Bronte sisters grew up on the way up. (authors of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The town was absolutely adorable- I want to go back- I didn’t want to leave. Cambridge is relatively flat compared to northern England and Haworth is on rolling hills-…
>Today I almost got hit by a garbage truck. Tomorrow I’m going to Edinburgh, Scotland. I’ll be there for 4 days.
>I was in London the second time yesterday. We went to the Tower of London first. The white tower in the middle was the palace before Hampton Court before Buckingham Palace.. It was built by William the Conqueror in 1066. then they built and outer wall and then another outer wall and then they built…
>After that, we ran down to Piccadilly Circus at night time- that was pretty. It is like New York’s Time Square but not quite. Fancy bright lights and signs. Then we walked around China Town before we came back to Cambridge. London has a pretty good China Town. I went to the British Museum! AAAh…
>So England was the only country in the world to recognize Texas as a country back when we were independent. So there was a Texas Embassy in London. Now, it is a restaurant and I ate there last night. I had a burger and it was quite good. Aside from my Romanian waiter, I really…
I was reading in a chapel of Michaelhouse in Cambridge, England and the sun was pouring perfectly directly through a big stained glass window with assorted crazy pictures all over it. It was beautiful. And I noticed this one small part of the window which really means alot to me now. So Accountability girls, this counts for my closest…
I wrote before about John, the adorable elderly man from my Bible study group whom I bring Latin notes to because he loves translating it with me and he was on of C.S. Lewis’ pupils in the 1950s… Well, he decided to loan me his notebook from when he was 19 years old with a…
>I met the Boy Scouts of Holland today. They are on tour with their brass band and they wear funny outfits.
>We went punting today! The river is pretty shallow near town so instead of gondolas, Cambridge has punts. About 6 people can ride in each long flat boat and the punter stands on a higher platform on the back end and uses a tall wooden pole to push off the bottom and down the river….
>We just went to see Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew” in St. John’s College garden. Okay so that was amazing! (Kiss Me Kate and Ten Things I Hate About You are based on this play). It was grand to see a comedy because both of the plays we have seen so far have been…
> Drivers drive on the Left side of the road in UK, Australia, and Japan. FUN FACT: The reason is that when knights jousted, they held the lance in the right hand and therefore passed left! Today I saw a little boy wearing a full cowboy outfit. hat, chaps, vest, fringe, and a sherriff’s badge….
>The other night about four of us illegally played in some flat boats on the river. oops. No, they were tied to the dock- we didn’t do anything that bad. And I climbed a willow tree. Those are excellent for climbing. I pulled myself up one of the stronger long branches and dangled a while…
>Yesterday I played Ultimate Frisbee on Jesus Greene. This town was basically built on an island in the middle of a swamp and the town expanded before they figured up a drainage system. Consequently, the the 18th century-to-present suburbs are several acres away from the 17th centurey part of the town. When they drained it,…
>The Globe at night time. So I have a thing for Big Ben- I really like it. People say it’s under-rated but I beg to differ. When I look at it, I think of The Great Mouse Detective cartoon and that climactic fight scene with the Villain-Rat who is actually a cat on the clock….
>Today a friend and I took a train out to Ely, a little town nearby- only £3.50 ticket. There is a Cathedral there built in 1081 and it is extra-ordinary! The only Stained Glass Museum in the world is there and it was so neat. I learned all about how stained glass is made and…
> So this is Ely Cathedral. Queen Ethelreda first had a church built here in 673 A.D. and the building as it is now was completed in 1081 except for The Lantern which was built in 1321 after the East tower completely collapsed. I’ll tell about that in the next post. There’s me going through…
> The whole entry hall ceiling has paintings from creation of Adam to Christ’s birth and him seated at the throne in heaven. Sad story, the man who took to painting it had a habit of licking his paint brush to wet it… since it was lead paint, he died on picture six. And the…
> I have a thing about doors- I think they’re cute. Alright, these pictures are taken FROM THE ROOF! I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT! A guide took us up there- we climbed up this incredibly narrow, steep passage all the way to the top and walked around the banisters right next to the…
> and here are the rafters holding the Lantern together. The trees are the talles in england they were at least 1000 years old when they put them up in 1321 so now they are like petrified. And he opened up these painted wooden shutters and we looked down from the ceiling into the cathedral…
>Well, today 5 of us from my school decided to go to “C3,” Cambridge Community Church in the suburbs. The congregation was probably about 500 and there was a stage with concert lights flashing and the singers were jumping up and down with their microphones, bass, electric guitar, crazy drummer, and keyboard. It was VERY…
>Today a friend and I took a train out to Ely, a little town nearby- only £3.50 ticket. There is a Cathedral there built in 1081 and it is extra-ordinary! The only Stained Glass Museum in the world is there and it was so neat. I learned all about how stained glass is made and…
>“Tons of books! Miles of books! Cascades of books!” -Lumiere and Cogsworth (the candle and the clock in beauty and the beast). I really do feel like I’m in a castle! And there is even a “west wing” which is forbidden. There is a sign at the base of the bigdarkwooden staircase saying, “fellows only.”…
> I would rather tell you about these places and then let you imagine them. Book are always better than movies and pictures dont do reality justice. But anyway- this is the open market. There are at least 3 fruit stands- the best fruit I have Ever tasted! A lovely flower stand- I may go…
>Here are some more pictures of Michaelhouse. Oh guess what- I found a coffee house ministry for international students learning English! They do conversation partners and everything. I met one of the women who runs it on the street yesterday- i may go sometime but time is small. I’ll let you know.