Keep Your Love On

I've been here for about a month but it still only feels like it's been a couple weeks. Time is going by so fast. A lot happened this week, making this post quite long. 

On Tuesday, I went to my family's house for dinner and they made us Shepard's pie and gave us fresh fruit with yogurt for dessert. I've missed good fruit. The fruit at the school is either non existent or very disappointing. They also gave us chocolate. Eric says that "a balanced meal is chocolate in both hands" and I completely agree. Pat talked about how individuals should not judge and you should simply "keep your love on" because it is not our place. Love is a powerful thing that we discussed for quite a while. I found that to be quite an important message.

On Wednesday afternoon, I took a day trip to Newark-on-Trent which is a beautiful place. I saw Mary Magdalene's Church which is one of the largest churches in England, castle ruins from around the 12th century, an adorable cafe, swans, and a beautiful river. It was an absolutely stunning place even with the weather having been terrible. It was so incredibly windy throughout the day and kept changing between sun and rain and snow. That night there was a small earthquake. At least on the fifth floor of the manor it felt small. Other than almost falling out of my bed not much occurred as a result from the earthquake.

 

On Friday, we had a field trip to Lincoln which was incredible. Lincoln is a cathedral city that began as a roman town. It has a Norman castle from the 11th century which is supposed to be absolutely amazing however, it was being repaired and we were not allowed to go see it. We did get to see the cathedral which was originally built  and some roman ruins which were very interesting and quite gorgeous. It has been renovated over a number of centuries.

Finally, Today (Sunday) I had the opportunity to spend the day in Nottingham which is absolutely spectacular. This may have been my favorite day trip so far. Sydney, Nikki, and I went to the castle museum and gallery which is in the location of where the old Nottingham castle was before it burnt down from riots. We were told the fire was so hot it melted the iron roof which poured down the sides like hot lava. We also got to go on the underground Mortimer's cave tour which turned out to be a very short tunnel. We got to see the top of Mortimer's hole in castle rock but other than that It was slightly disappointing that the tour was so short and didn't go into a full cave area but nonetheless interesting to learn about. We also walked to Nottingham's Arboretum which was beautiful. I got a delicious strawberry and cream crepe from the market which was fun to walk around as well. There was also lots of pictures taken of Robin Hood and his Merry Men statues.

Next weekend I will be going to Norway!

Love to all!

Erin