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| The Moors |
After writing our last papers and
taking our final tests, we were finally done with classes for Wheaton in
England! We celebrated Friday
night with a party, and Saturday we woke up ready for the Northern Excursion.
The
first stop we made was at Haworth in Yorkshire to see the Bronte’s
cottage.
As we drove in the
landscape drastically changed.
We
were surrounded by the wild moors, which were barren and dotted with
sheep.
Appropriately, the weather
shifted from bright sunshine to gray skies that spouted drizzle on us.
We only had an hour there, but we were
able to see the cottage where the Brontes lived all of their lives and wrote
their novels.
I’ve read a novel
from all three of the sisters, so it was exciting to see the landscape that inspired
their genius.
Outside their
cottage was a graveyard with a cat wandering around and the moors loomed in the
distance.
The house was preserved
to look as it did during their day and contained many of their
possessions.
It also had costumes
from the newest
Jane Eyre movie.
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| The Bronte Parsonage |
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| The Durham Cathedral |
After
Haworth, we drove to Durham to spend the night in a castle.
My room was in the keep, which is the
strongest part of the castle, and where everyone would hide out if there were
an attack.
It was awesome.
That night we wandered around town and
took in the spectacular view on the river walk.
We learned that Saturday night is the night to party in
Durham.
Everywhere we went people
were milling about clubbing.
It
was disjointing to see a historic looking town filled with modern-day
clubbers.
We
spent the night in Durham relaxing.
The Northern Excursion has been nice in giving us all time to unwind
from intense schoolwork and have some fun before we return to classes in a
couple weeks.
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| The Durham Castle we stayed in! |
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