Monday started off like every other Monday, with class. During our morning session we started out with our usual discussion of the news. Next we had a special geography lesson for Lyndon. Since he made us learn geography based on football we challenged him to learn US geography based on American football. To put a spin on things for every team we quizzed him on we also had to come up with a geography question that somehow connected with Britain. We had a fun time watching Lyndon draw all our states as squares. Sarah took a picture of his map afterwards that I’m going to have to get from her.
Our next activity of the day was to prepare for our overnight visit to Liverpool/Manchester on Wednesday and Thursday. We got our maps and itinerary so we knew what to expect. A previous assignment of ours was to conduct research on an individual question. Next we all shared our research so we had some background on Liverpool/Manchester. Our second assignment for the class is a photo book of Liverpool/Manchester that focuses around a central theme. The point of hearing the research in advance was to give ideas to focus our project on. The last task of the day was supposed to be our British versus American health, welfare, and education systems debate but we ran out of time. Lyndon decided we would have to save it for another day.
After our lunch break we met up in the studio for our afternoon session. In the afternoon we got to watch the film Ben it like Beckham. The whole point in watching the film was to be able to pick up on subtle things about British life we would not have recognized before living here. I had never seen the film before and really enjoyed watching it. The movie took up our entire afternoon session. Then it was time to go walk.
Our walk on Monday was the only one we had to do for the week since we would be in Manchester on Thursday. We started out at Waterloo station and ended up at Embankment. Going on the walks is always particularly interesting because it gives me a better sense of direction every time. By now you would think I had London all figured out but since we are always underground on the tube it doesn’t always hit me things are so close to each other. When I actually make the connections it never fails to surprise me. I do know a lot more about the London area than I thought. I realized this while helping got explain a few things to my parents.
On my way home from the walk I made a to do list of all the things I needed to get done. The rest of the evening was spent accomplishing those tasks. It made me feel a whole lot better to get them all done finally. It was just a bunch of little things I had been putting off for no good reason. It felt good to get them done so I didn’t have to think about it anymore. To wrap up the evening we watched a movie together which ended up keeping me up later than I planned to be but luckily Tuesdays are my day to sleep in!
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