Travelling about

So in an effort to make this blog actually interesting I have tried to space out my posts. But of course with my terrible memory I know I have been forgetting things. I'll try my best to recall this past week and a half... Here goes

A couple weekends ago we went to stonehenge. "Wow, Omar that must have been so cool!!" It was alright. Stonehenge was definitely a sight to see but it was kind of odd because that's it. It's pretty random because you're just standing in the middle of a field then you look over and there's a structure thousands of years old. The rest of the weekend was the best in my opinion. This was another one of the school trips. We went to Bath, Wells and Glastonbury (and stonehenge). All of those towns were really neat. Like everything else here the architecture is astonishing. Abbeys, churches, whatever, that are centuries old. In Bath (guess what it's named after) we took a tour of the Roman Baths and ruined temple from sometime in the 40s AD. It's pretty crazy that this natural hot spring is still going. And even crazier that the water coming up now was meltwater from probably a couple thousand years ago that permeated through the ground. We did some wandering around the rest of the city and got some pasties. Mmmm mmm good.

A tip to any other IC folk that get a little home(Ithaca)-sick...go to Glastonbury. I couldn't believe how many hippies were wandering about the place. Right outside a 500 year old church there was a drum circle and just a few metres down a woman in pirate clothes blowing a horn. I swear it was like being on the commons. Our main reason for visting Glastonbury was going up to the Tor ("hill" in Welsh). This area was supposedly where a lot of the King Arthur stories come from. The whole place used to be a sea and these giant hills were just tiny islands throughout. It was a tough climb but we made it up and boy was it worth it. It was a gorgeous day out (one of the few) and being on that hill and the breeze flying past you. It was a titanic moment for sure. Everything is green over here. It was like being back in Ireland. And somehow there were a butt load of cows up there. Search me how they got up there or even why but it was quite a hassle having to avoid their little presents. The trip ended all well and good. We got back to London and the next I played softball again in Hyde Park. We've really been lucking out with the good weather when we need it. Well, so begins another week of music listening, play attending, and teaching. Till next time...at a shorter interval.

Cheerio,
Omar

By the way, no one says "Cheerio" over here. Although I did have a lady asking for directions say "Jolly Good" to me.