Hey guys!
Sorry it has taken me this long to update since coming back. I have been here for two-and-a-half weeks and it has been marvelous! I am so grateful I have been given this 2nd opportunity to come to London; I'm so blessed!
Well, I came back and met all of the new ones who came this semester, and I immediately adjusted back into the swing of things. Classes started on the 14th and it is intense since we have to pack some of them into 2 months. When we go to Greece I will have finished two classes, continue two classes, and then pick up an additional one in Greece. It sounds alot easier than it is going to be. I apologize, then, in advance because this won't be as detailed as last semester. Also, I'm not taking as many trips. I'm doing day trips to places in England, but I will only travel to Germany while in London. You guys will just have to wait until the unbelievable posts from Greece--coming in March!
Since I've been back, I have mostly been enjoying London, but I have made a couple of day trips to magnificent places. The first was to Wales where we toured the castle, went to the bay, and enjoyed the cute city Caldiff, the capital of Wales.
A couple of days later we traveled cross-town to the Tower of London, which was so cool. This is where the crown jewels of England are kept, one includes the biggest diamond in the world! It was massive to say the least. It was cool because we took a tour with one of the Beefeaters (guards of the Tower) and he was so interesting. The stories and people were extraordinary. At one point he asked who the Americans were, and quite a few of us raised our hands and he replied, "this could have been your history too if you had only paid your taxes." haha.
And just yesterday I went to the town of Cambridgeshire, home of the world famous Cambridge University. So many great minds went there including Isaac Newton, John Harvard, Charles Darwin (ironically he went to Christ's College, ha), Oliver Cromwell, poet Tennyson, Emma Thompson (of Harry Potter), Prince Charles, and Sir Francis Bacon, just to name a few! It was such a cute city, quite different from Malibu! We also walked along a road that has been there since Roman times. So much history!
That has been my travels, thus far. I will put the pictures from these trips in another post.
I love and miss you all! ♥♥♥
If you can't quite tell, these are carvings in the walls of the towers from various prisoners it housed there. Most are prayers to God, Jesus and Mary.
Us girls in front of Tower Bridge, which can be spotted from the Tower of London.
The crown jewels of England are housed in this white building on the left. Needless to say they were extravagent and beautiful!
These are two very special pieces of armor. The large one on the left is the biggest set ever found and the one on the right is the smallest ever found. 
