Today we had our first class time, which ended up being
really great. After working an office
job all summer and sitting at a desk 8-hours a day I can proudly say having
time class for four hours was like a walk through the park on a sunny day. Some of my peers mentioned how long it was
during our break and I simply said, “I could listen to this all day!” We had a
guest speaker from Britain talk to us about the differences in theology between
Islam and Christianity, which was fascinating and she brought up some amazing
points that I didn’t know about before.
Then we had a lecture from the English professor, Dr.
Chaney, who is very eccentric and entertaining.
She taught us a brief overview of the bloody history (I’m not cussing,
I’m actually talking about violence) between Scotland, Ireland, and England and
used different voices all the way through to represent the different people she
was talking about! The class was laughing at many parts of that even though the
things she was talking about were very serious.
The afternoon consisted of tours of two churches… one of
which I had already walked through a few days prior. But we had a wonderful tour guide take us
through – he was an older Scottish gentleman and he enjoyed telling us how various people in Scotland's history had, well, died. And we got
to see the room where all of the knights of Scotland meet every year! That was
probably my highlight of the day, it was different from anything I’ve ever
seen.
I’ve been getting closer to everyone on the trip, which has
been a lot of fun. All of the people
here are great and everyone has such different personalities. Some of us are getting up at 5 o’clock
tomorrow (me included) to climb Arthur’s Seat, a hill outside of town, so that
we can watch the sunrise. I can’t wait to take pictures of that! Goodnight!
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