Poets and Writers in the Lake District

Hello!
While I didn't see any daffodils today or yesterday, we did tour several writers' homes as part of our literary pilgrimage course. Yesterday we took a hike to Dove Cottage, where William Wordsworth spent several years of his life writing The Prelude. After touring the small, cramped dark house (Wordsworth was very much a starving artist) we had a chance to speak with the curator in charge of the manuscripts. Once he realized that we knew quite a bit about The Prelude (courtesy of Cheri's lecture earlier that morning) he took out Wordsworth's personal copy of Paradise Lost. He invited our school to come back to do more intense work with manuscripts, curator training and writing in Dove Cottage in candlelight at night (I guess he really liked our group!).
Pictures of us reading some original manuscripts are on Facebook, for those who are friends with me there.
Today we went out to Hawkshead and made our way to Beatrix Potter's home, where there were also manuscripts for us to look at. I took some pictures of rabbits and the garden there. We also hiked around one of the lakes. Afterwards, we visited John Ruskins' home and wandered around the gardens. The bulk of our stay at the Lake District will end on Monday, a travel day. From here we will go to York, but on our way to York I'm looking forward to visiting the parsonage where the Bronte sisters lived.
Tomorrow we have most of the day to ourselves, which is nice because we all have lots of homework. The theater people need to write reviews, Victorian Studies people have lots of reading, and we Dickensians should get started on David Copperfield. I also have to write a reflective essay about a site where an author lived. I thought about writing about the Elephant House, but I feel as though the parsonage will be especially interesting.
I don't think I've ever been asked where I'm from so many times in one day. Even though this is England, I could very much blend in because modern England is very much a diverse community (the man who helped us get our connection to Edinburgh is Asian, but British, and he told me all about the Filipino sub-community in London!). I will talk more about this in London, where I have a presentation about Andrea Levy and her work on Jamaicans living in a post-colonial London. Usually I'm the one asking people where they're from, but my American accent is very prominent. Most people know our group is American, but they always want to know what state.
I think every single day I've been asked where I'm from, especially when we are eating dinner with other people in the convention center. Accents are different, though I don't know the difference between a Liverpool and Manchester accent. Welsh is pretty distinct.
Unfortunately, I won't be uploading pictures here until London. The Internet here is available in the lobby and isn't very strong. There's a lot I could talk about, such as how we're slowly getting to know each other, or how we occasionally get lost, but this post is getting long as it is. I'll attempt to update again tomorrow during our free time.