Friday, September 21, 2012

Wales and Dragons

Today is the first day of our free weekend, where we split off from the main group of seven-and-twenty in company (will touch upon this reference later in Canterbury). We traveled out of Birmingham  and will be in Wales until Monday.
As we were traveling on the train I could tell when we were entering Welsh country. Signs in Welsh began to appear until we couldn't recognize some of the names. We're spending the weekend in a little Welsh town, where we will hike and spend time looking at castles. The town is entirely walled in, and is extremely small (we tried to get lost and failed). We plan on making day trips to other neighboring towns in Snowdonia.
We tried to walk along the city walls, but then it started to pour. So we'll do that later.
As we walked around town we also realized that this is yet another literary place: that of William Wordsworth's poem "We Are Seven". Tomorrow we are going back to St. Mary's graveyard to possibly read the poem out loud.
Hopefully we'll get some homework done this weekend. We have to read a good chunk of David Copperfield for next week (and a paper to write).

No comments:

Post a Comment