12/10/12
On Thursday the 29th a few of the girls and I went
to York for the day. A friend of mine, liz, lives in York and was nice enough
to show us around. We got to the train station around 9:30 for our 9:47 train,
only to find out it had been delayed about an hour. While waiting for the train
I met a pigeon that was not suitably afraid of humans. I thought it was going
to jump up onto my lap! We finally got on the train and headed off to York.
I had never been on train before (not counting subways or
the tram) so I didn’t know what to expect. It took us a lot longer for us to
get there then normal because the trains were running slow due to flooding.
It was beautiful when we got to York, albeit a bit cold. We
got of the train and immediately saw an old wall of the city. We all decided
that it was the wall in the north from Game of thrones and started quoting the
show. I even took a picture of me as a watcher on the wall. Liz took us to the
medieval abbey first. I have a bunch of pictures of it up on facebook if you
want to look. It was really cool because you could see where the Roman part of
the abbey stopped and the medieval part started. There were also a few empty
stone coffins, one of which Caroline planked on.
Next we walked on the wall of the old roman fort. It’s a long
wall that used to enclose the city. We walked into several of the towers which
was pretty cool Now I want to live in a place with towers, and castles. Next we
did a bit of shopping. We immediately found the fudge shop where I got white
chocolate fudge, yummy. Liz went to go meet up with her parents for lunch and
we headed to a pub to get some food. I finally got my English fish and chips!
Only took me a semester.
After lunch we went to the Christmas market. It was really
cute, they had a ton of booths set up and food stands. People were selling
holiday crafts, toys and of course food. Instead of normal booths they had
little sheds that looked like houses. I bought a little penguin ornament that I
immediately had to have after I saw it. I think I have a strange obsession with
penguins, I don’t care there adorable. We stopped and got hot spiced apple
juice (basically hot cider) and hot chocolate with baileys. After the market we
went and got tea and warmed up. I love that here in England when you order tea
they bring you a little pot of tea instead of just a cup.
After tea we went shopping at a bunch of the stores in York
and went to an area called the shambles. The shambles are buildings built in
the medieval period that look like they are about to fall over. They reminded
me a lot of Diagon alley in Harry Potter. Around 7 pm we decided to leave and
headed back to the train station.
We had a terrific day and I’m so glad Liz was able to show
us around. It was nice to actually see
more of England then just Sheffield. Next semester our weekly work load in less
intense and we’ll be able to travel more.
This week is my last week of classes for this semester! I
just have to finish up my skeletal analysis for my adult and juvenile skeletons
and take my final anatomy exam on Thursday and I’m home free! This anatomy test
is going to kill me I think. I’m terrified I’ll do worse on this test and end
up failing the class.
I have the Osteo Christmas party this Friday and we’re all
wearing ugly Christmas sweaters. I got mine form a shop called Cow and it’s
fantastic. I might have to wear it for Christmas eve!
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