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St. Paul's Cathedral

    As it is the week before Spring Break, I have had a relatively quiet four days working on projects, presentations, and a paper. We are on such a different pace than at Centre, making it almost harder to concentrate on work. Oh well!

    On Monday we went to the National Theatre to see the production of Port. It was a great show with fantastic technical elements, including entire set pieces that disappeared into the floor. After having a tour of the National Theatre last week the show was even cooler to see since I had a small idea of how these scene changes happened. Tuesday's walking class involved walking around St. Paul's Cathedral and then crossing the Thames to briefly be inside the Tate Modern.

Avebury!

   Wednesday the entire class went to Stonehenge!!! Although the site is a bit anti climatic (though it is so cool to be able to say I have seen Stonehenge), it was also an incredibly fun day. Before heading to Stonehenge we went to Salisbury Cathedral. This is an absolutely gorgeous Cathedral that also houses one of four remaining original copies of the Magna Carta. I didn't realize this document was here until I stumbled into the room where it is kept. Pretty cool. The church itself was also absolutely beautiful. After we toured the Cathedral and took pictures and went to Stonehenge and took pictures, we headed to Avebury. This is another site of ancient ruins, older than Stonehenge but somehow less known. This is probably in part to the fact that the stones are solely placed in a ring besides also having the large structure that we think of as Stonehenge. The day was exhausting but also so much fun!

Salisbury Cathedral

Stonehenge!

   I wish I had more adventures to talk about, but the homework load of the week has made it a little more difficult to get out and explore. Oh well! Spring Break is just around the corner and will be full of many adventures!