York was a very fun place to visit. First, we walked up to the York Minster. On our way there we met a nice Englishman and his quite racist Welsh friend!! They loved us! We had them take a picture of us and then we got one with him :)
The York Minster was SO beautiful!! And so big!! We were able to walk up a lot of narrow, winding stairs to the tower and look at the beautiful city from the top. It was awesome! We also went to the undercrofts underneath the cathedral. It was pretty cool down there too. They didn't allow photography though :(
We ate our first fish and chippies (fries)!! And I loved it! We watched a street performer while we ate, and Candice was picked to be in the show! It was absolutely HILARIOUS!!! He was a really really funny guy!
Christina, Michelle, and I went to the York Dungeons. It was so funny and fun! It is like a haunted house that goes on all year. It is about old horror stories that happened in York many years ago... It was a good experience
Towards the end we just walked around and looked in the fun shops. We listened to a band playing on the streets, and we walked along and on the old wall that surrounds the city.
More signs...
We don't know what this one means
This is an exit sign
Construction
More of York
My feet on the cobble stone road
A guy stopped us and asked us to hold the vitamin waters and jump in the air for a picture. He loved the pic and said it was the best one yet! Watch for us in a vitamin water ad!! (probably not in the US though haha)
I just realized that I never posted these pictures. They are of us anticipating our arrival in England. The top right picture is of all of us on campus the day before we left. The 3 on the left side are of us waiting in airports, and the bottom middle pic is us getting close to landing in England!! We love it here!
Wow, today was a great day! We spent the day in Liverpool, and it was so much fun!! We took the train from Huddersfield to Manchester Piccadelly then to Liverpool. It was about 1 1/2 hours.
Christina and I were very tired...
Me and Carianne
We had to get pics at the Manchester Piccadilly train station :)
We arrived at Liverpool and split up for the first little bit at Albert Dock. Michelle, Candice, and Erin went to the Beatles Museum. Carianne, Christina, and I went to the International Slavery Museum and to the Merseyside Maritime Museum. It was interesting and very humbling. The slave trade is such a sad thing, it's hard to even learn about. But I do know that it is important and those who suffered should not be forgotten. The Merseyside Maritime Museum had information and artifacts from Titanic, Lucitania, and the Empress. I learned a lot from that too.
This was a quote on the wall right as you walk in to the museum
Us at the International Savery Museum
Us in front of the Liver Building
Albert Dock
After we spent some time at the Albert Dock Museums, we went to th Liverpool Cathedral. It is absolutely beautiful! It is Britain's largest cathedral. It was breathtaking walking in to the giganticness!! The stained glass windows were gorgeous and massive. The intricate detail in everything was just amazing.
Christina, Candice, Michelle, Heidi, Carianne
This was written by a prayer candle set up and I thought it was pretty neat
A man working at the Cathedral started talking to some of the girls and he told them about a Florence Nightingale monument nearby, so we went to check that out. It was where a hospital used to be, but they have now turned it in to a hostel.
Florence Nightingale Monument
Nightingale house
Just having fun walking the streets of Liverpool :)
Cute little green car!
Seeing the picture of this car reminded me... EVERYONE has such small cars!! I have seen 2 kind of bigger cars. The only large thing that drives is the bus. The roads are so narrow and it's just kinda crazy! We did see an accident today. A big bus ran in to the back of a small black BMW. No one was hurt, but there was definitely damage to the car and even to the bus.
Another grocery store incident... So we decided to get groceries after we got back from Liverpool. We got there around 7:50. After we had been there about 5 minutes someone got on the loud speaker and said..."We will be closing in 5 minutes so please come to the front to buy your items." We were laughing! Everything closes sooo early here! Eight o clock!!! We found one that was opened til 10. So we go in that one and get our groceries and I was checking out. The checker asked me something and I had to say "what" 3 times! I hate it when I can't understand them! I feel so dumb! He asked if I was American. Hahaha! He then asked "Why would you ever want to move from America to here?" Haha I told him why I was here. People bag their own groceries here, and I am soo dang slow at it! People have to sit and wait for me. The checker finally asked if he could help me! hahaha! Hopefully I will get better skilled at bagging...
Other funny things:
Someone asked us if we were "Q-in" today (think of the accent), that means waiting
The traffic lights turn yellow before it turns red (like the US) and it also turns yellow before it turns green
Everyone is "love"
"Cheers" is used a lot
Drivers and driving is on the opposite side that the US
They have funny signs all over the place
(Yield)
This is a reminder to pay to park and to put your proof of payment in your car window
I can't believe I am actually here in England!! I really am going to use this blog as a journal, so there will be lots of detail that you may not care about so.... welcome to my very personal life :)
I left Provo at 4AM for my 7AM flight in Salt Lake City. We had to sit on the plane for about an hour because of rainy weather in Chicago. We flew to Chicago and had a 6 hour lay over, plus we boarded late and we ended up sitting on the plane for over an hour again waiting to take off. The flight from Chicago to Manchester was about 7.5 hours. The travel time was very long, but we made it! Yay! We arrived here at about 8AM (Manchester time) so we had a whole day ahead of us still! I'm doing my best to get my sleeping cycle in sync with the time, but I'm soooo tired! That is one reason I am doing this now, to keep me busy so I don't fall asleep!! I haven't even been here 24 hours and I feel like so much has happened!
It is absolutely BEAUTIFUL here. Everything is so lush and green and so pretty to look at. We are pretty lucky because we are staying in campus housing, but it's about 10 minutes away from the city and it looks and feels like we are living in the country side. We actually have an entire building of apartments to ourselves that aren't being used for just the 6 of us. Unfortunately, one girl had to drop out because of health reasons, so it is 5 student plus our instructor.
We took a trip to the grocery store and something kinda funny happened. We were trying to get a grocery cart and they were all hooked to eachother. We kept trying to unhook them and push buttons to get one, but we couldn't figure it out!! So a man came up and took one with no problem and we realized you have to pay to get one! Who would have thought you have to PAY to use a grocery cart?!?! It's only like one pence or something, I don't know. We ended up using the small crates that you carry.
After we got all of our groceries, we came to get settled in to our apartments. Our building is called Boothroyd. Then I decided to go running with Carianne. We found the coolest trails and we were running through the green beautiful forest and it was so fun!! Of course we made stops along the way to take some great pictures! There were so many people walking with their dogs through as we were running. The weather has been so perfect today and so nice.
Other than that I have just been figuring things out and trying to get settled in. We will be going to the hospital starting Tuesday. I am so ecxited for the next little while that I have to be here in England. I know it's going to be so much fun and an awesome learning experience!!
We don't know what this one means
This is an exit sign
My feet on the cobble stone road
A guy stopped us and asked us to hold the vitamin waters and jump in the air for a picture. He loved the pic and said it was the best one yet! Watch for us in a vitamin water ad!! (probably not in the US though haha)
