tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479125353672279232024-02-19T18:16:06.094-08:00Book Bon VoyageMy voyage through books and other literary and travel delightsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-27563823187066824232013-08-03T10:33:00.002-07:002013-08-03T10:33:48.329-07:00Last Day in London and Final Looks at London<u>Days 30 and 31:</u><br />
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On my last day in London, I decided to pack all my stuff before heading out to wander around the river front with a few girls from my class. We turned in our Oyster cards (London subway system cards) to see whether we had any money left. Then we got Slush Puppies and wandered through the Turkish Festival and down to the Globe Theatre and the Millennium Bridge. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sand art on the banks of the Thames</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Millennium Bridge from below</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Millennium Bridge</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of Globe Theatre from Millennium Bridge</td></tr>
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I ended my day at Gourmet Burger Kitchen having dinner with a group of my classmates. The oreo milkshake and the burger were delicious, and the company was entertaining! Since it was raining on our walk home, I decided to embrace the rain and stomp in puddles.<br />
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The next morning, I woke up at 4:00am (yikes!) to be ready to leave for the airport on a 5:30 coach bus. Here are the pictures of my last looks at London.<br />
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Goodbye, London! I have enjoyed my time here, and I will be back one day :) Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-70576283120896898402013-08-03T08:14:00.002-07:002013-08-03T08:14:38.295-07:00Bath Time<u>Day 29:</u><br />
<br />With our free day, a few of us decided to take a train to Bath, England, to visit the Roman Baths and the Jane Austen Centre. We started our day at the Jane Austen Centre, where we learned about Austen's life in Bath and her work. We even learned about the "language of the fan" and how to send a message just by using a fan and body language. This is a very useful 21st century skill! <br />
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We decided to have tea at the Regency Tea Room at the Jane Austen Centre, which allowed us to experience a true English Tea. I had a sandwich with country ham and English cheese (yum!!) and some Earl Grey tea (also, yum!). My friends had scones with jam and crumpets with honey. One also had Earl Grey tea, and the other had hot chocolate (which looked divine!). <br />
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After lunch, we headed to the Roman Baths in the center of town to see the bath rooms and learn about the Roman influence on the city. Although you aren't allowed to touch or drink the water in the pool of the bath, they do have spa water which they offer for consumption. I tried it, just to be able to say that I had. It tasted like warm mineral water.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The bath with the Abbey in the background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spa Water Outlet under the Baths</td></tr>
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After the baths, we wandered around Bath for awhile, seeing the bridge, the Assembly Room building (they were closed, so we couldn't go in), the Oxford Circus (which is just a round park area surrounded by really expensive properties), and ended up at Sally Lunns for dinner. <br />
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<a href="http://www.sallylunns.co.uk/" target="_blank">Sally Lunn's</a> has been there since 1680. They serve tea and lunch in the afternoon and dinner at night. Their specialty are Sally Lunn buns, which are rolls that are as big as your head! They are delicious and served with every meal. If you ever go to Bath, go to Sally Lunn's!<br />
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At the end of the night, we took the train back to London with all of our goodies (of both the edible and Cath Kidston bag varieties). <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-58321251794203069152013-08-02T14:27:00.001-07:002013-08-03T10:37:56.218-07:00Beatrix Potter <u>Day 28:</u><br />
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On our last official class day, we headed to one of the Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum's storage facilities to see their special collection about Beatrix Potter. Blythe House houses the extensive children's book collection (over 100,000 items). The building wasn't originally built to be a library storage area, instead it was built in the 1900s as the headquarters of the post office. It served this purpose until the 1970s when the British Museum, the V&A, and the Science Museum acquired it and began to share it as a storage facility.<br />
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Although it is mostly used for storage, they do have a reading room available for accessing archival material. The public also has access to the online catalog which allows them to search the collections. The museum has an online object database. One challenge for the archivists is to determine the best way to catalog the items and link the object database to the archival catalog to best serve the public's needs. <br />
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The representatives of Blythe House showed us examples from the 19th century before we got to see the Beatrix Potter collection. We saw a loan record book from the V&A from the 1860s. The book included an entry from Queen Victoria about lending stained glass windows to the museum. Additionally, we saw posters from advertising agencies showing the graphic design concepts from 1988. The marketing ideas were a bit racy, and some people found them controversial.<br />
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We also got to hear from an archivist who focuses her work on art and design. They collect archives from British or Britain-based artists and designers, and the majority of their collection is from the 20th and 21st century. However, they do have some archives and items from earlier, such as the archives from Garrard & Co. (the company who designed the crown jewels) which dates from the 1730s. They concentrate on design and decorative arts, and their collections include anything related to art, design, interior design, stained glass, fashion, etc. They focus on big-name designers and on everyday ephemera related to art and design. They do not include archives about fine art (that would be the Tate Museum) or architecture. <br />
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She showed us examples of some of their collection including archives from Lucile Dove Gordon (a fashion designer in the 1890s-1930s). Gordon had fashion houses in London, Paris, New York City, and Chicago. She was an early developer of the catwalk show. Also, she was known for naming her dresses instead of just numbering them.<br />
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We also got to hear about the children's literature collection, including the 80,000 books that were donated by the Rainiers and were collected between the 1950s and the 1970s. One of the gems of the collection is the Beatrix Potter archives, which is the largest archive of Beatrix Potter in the world. The majority of the archival items were donated by Leslie Linder and includes watercolors, sketches, manuscripts, photographs, etc. </div>
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Beatrix Potter and her husband actively distributed her work to different institutions across the United Kingdom so that it was spread out and more people could access it. One of the items we got to see was a original, privately printed version of the <i>Tale of Peter Rabbit</i> from 1901. It is in Beatrix Potter's handwriting and includes black and white line sketches as illustrations. <br />
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Following the presentations by the V&A archivists, Leslie Linder's neighbor Andrew Wiltshire spoke to us about his relationship with the Linders and their importance to the resurgence in the popularity of Beatrix Potter. Linder was the one who decoded Potter's diary, which led to more information about her life and work. Linder also is the one who donated much of the archive to the V&A. </div>
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Following our time at Blythe House, we headed home for lunch and fortuitously ended up in Trafalgar Square because our bus ended its service. We visited the lions and touched them to be sure that we would return to London one day (according to tradition or superstition). Then we saw that the National Gallery had changed the sculpture to the big, blue chicken. Finally, we decided to take advantage of being near St. Martin's in the Field and eat lunch at their restaurant in the crypt. The meal was delicious! <br />
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Tonight all of the British Studies Program students, faculty, and staff gathered at the Research Symposium and learned about what all of the classes have been studying throughout the month. It was really interesting to hear about the research that the other students were working on and what their classes have been doing while we have been in London and our other LondonAway cities. <br />
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After the Research Symposium, we went to Nando's for dinner and ate in a nest (which is appropriate for a chicken restaurant). Once we were finished with dinner, we decided to go down to the Thames to hang out by the river and enjoy one of our last nights together in London. <br />
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Our group started today at the <a href="http://www.middletemple.org.uk/library-and-archive/library/library-collections/" target="_blank">Middle Temple Library</a>, which is a law library at one of the four main Inns of Court (legal groups) in London. The four Inns of Court (Middle Temple, Inner Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn) share material because each has a different legal focus. The Middle Temple Library first began when Robert Ashley donated his personal collection, including mostly non-legal books in 1641. In the 18th century, the teaching of the law slowed down, but by the 19th century there was a resurgence of legal studies. The library was built in 1861, but it was bombed twice during World War II. In 1958, the current building was designed by Edward Maufe, who used reinforced concrete because he was afraid of bombings. He also included offices for librarians, which was a progressive for the times.<br />
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The library collections include English Law (which is quite a large portion of the collection since they have to keep everything because English law is based on precedent), European Union, American Law (much of which was donated by the Carnegie Foundation), and African and Indian Law. The collection also includes material on Insurances, Tax, and Eccelesiastical Law.<br />
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The library has a few items that are of particular interest to visitors. They have portraits of all of the British Prime Ministers that were donated in the 1970s. They have the Molyneux Globes, which are the earliest globes made in England. They are made of paper-mache' and have sand inside to weigh them down and keep them in place.<br />
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The third-floor American Law section was dedicated in honor of the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, VA. The Middle Temple has had a close relationship with the United States since the 18th century, even after the American Revolution. Even today, they maintain a close rapport with American law schools such as Pepperdine University. Part of the relationship was built on the Middle Temple's investments in the Virginia Company (both monetary and personnel) during the 17th century. There were even members of the Middle Temple who signed the Declaration of Independence.<br />
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We also got to see the bench apartments, which are the rooms where the benchers and barristers relax and socialize. Benchers are people who hold honorary positions because they have achieved certain accomplishments. Prince William and Queen Elizabeth are two of the Middle Temple's royal benchers, and they have special rooms named after them. Originally, the members of the inns of court lived in the "chambers" at the inns.<br />
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In the hallway between the bench apartments, there is a wall of coats of arms. The coats of arms belong to the readers who come to the Temple. <br />
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Middle Temple Hall was built in 1570 by Edmund Ploughdon and serves as the Temple's dining hall, theater, performance area, and meeting place. It has a double hammer beam roof, which is extremely rare. The head table is made of four beams of oak that were floated down the Thames River from Richmond. It matches the rest of the wood in the room, which is also all oak. This room was the scene of the first performance of William Shakespeare's <i>Twelfth Night</i> in 1602.<br />
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Following our visit to the law library, our class headed to the <a href="http://oldbankofengland.co.uk/" target="_blank">Old Bank of England Pub</a> for lunch. The pub is the site of Sweeney Todd's barbershop and his mistress's pie shop. They offer traditional English pub fare, and I tried the steak and venison pie which was delightful!<br />
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After lunch, a few of us headed to the Tower of London to continue our sight-seeing for the day. We started out with a Beefeater tour, but we broke away because the group was too big for us to really hear the tour guide. Seeing all of the towers, the ravens, the armor, and the information about the menagerie was really interesting. I have always been fascinated by castles (I even did a project in middle school about castles), so I enjoyed being able to explore one in person. Here are some pictures from our day.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-36494907667224877922013-08-01T18:37:00.001-07:002013-08-01T18:50:42.583-07:00The Wizarding World of Conservation<u>Day 26:</u><br />
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Today we headed back to the British Library (remember, the home of King George's really cool library tower?! If you don't remember this, go back and read my blog "Independence Day at the British Library".), but this time we had an appointment to see the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/whatson/permgall/conservation/index.html" target="_blank">British Library Conservation Centre</a>. This department is in charge of conserving the materials used in the British Library. Since the library is a reference library and the items can be checked out and handled by patrons, it's important for them to be functional.<br />
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The team of six has plenty to work on since the Legacy Collection has 150 million items, which are the items on which they focus their efforts. Newer items needing conservation go to their department based in Yorkshire. In order to determine which items will be worked on, individual curators for each department in the library prioritize the work they need and send in bids to the conservation team. Then the conservation team leader gets all of the bids, looks at the items, and estimates the number of hours of work each item needs. Then the curator and the conservator determine which course of action would be best based on hours available, need, frequency of handling, uniqueness, priority, and whether the item is going to be digitized. <br />
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Our guide showed us examples of his conservation work. (We weren't allowed to take pictures, so I don't have photographs of these examples.)<br />
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The first was a Dutch leather tooling example from the 1800s. The example was like a resume' for this Dutch craftsman.<br />
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We also saw an India Office Record Box from 1832. This book was particularly interesting because it has a spring back, which pops open. While he was showing us this particular book, our guide explained that the marbling on the edges of pages of account books served the dual purposes of decoration and security. Marbling stops crooked accountants from removing and replacing pages, because the marbling can't be reproduced after the fact. <br />
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We saw a 1649 dictionary that had been rebacked (which is when the cover has been replaced or repaired) using a combination of original and new leather. The conservator had also resewn the binding, added new boards, but left the inner manuscript notes. The conservators do not use rice paper, only Japanese tissue to reinforce where they sew. They use different weights of tissue paper, each costing approximately 6-7 pound per sheet.<br />
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Then we went to the Finishing Department, where two more guides told us about the process for gold finishing on leather or cloth bindings. We got to see the tools involved, hear about the steps necessary, and even touch some gold leaf, ourselves. Gold finishing is a very precise process, and there are very few people on staff who have reached expert-level.<br />
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Tonight, we headed to the <a href="http://www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/" target="_blank">Warner Brothers Studio Harry Potter Tour</a>, which was A-Mazing! Here are pictures from the tour:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sword of Gryffindor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hagrid's Hut and Fang</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magicked Knitting Needles at the Burrow</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ministry of Magic Statue</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ministry of Magic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ministry of Magic--Floo Network</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daily Prophet</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Black Family Tapestry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Knight Bus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sirius/Hagrid's Motorcycle with Sidecar</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ford Anglia</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dursley Residence</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tom Riddle's Grave</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buckbeak the Hippogriff</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Potters' House</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Covered Bridge at Hogwarts</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Diagon Alley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes Puking Pastilles Display</td></tr>
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<u>Days 21-25:</u></div>
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Scotland Minibreak:</div>
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I headed off on my mini-break adventure on Thursday
morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A fire in Edinburgh delayed my
departure a bit because it backed up traffic so much that our taxi couldn’t
make it through the middle of town to get to the train station and the rental
car office.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, I arrived at the
rental car office and began the driving portion of my trip…on the “wrong” side
of the road!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had ordered a GPS for the
car and bought an atlas, so I was doubly covered in case I got lost!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Driving on the opposite side of the road really wasn’t as
unnerving as I expected it to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
upgraded to the automatic transmission (even though I can drive a manual
transmission), so I didn’t have to deal with shifting gears with my left hand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made a few stops on the way across the country
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Once I got to Arisaig/Morar, I had to stop and ask for
directions because my GPS said I had arrived, but I couldn’t find the bed and
breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eventually, I did find it,
got checked in, and had a cup of tea and some shortbread.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I got settled in and took a brief nap before
I headed out to Mallaig (a nearby town) for dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My eyes were much larger than my stomach
when I saw all the delicious options on the menu!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ordered mussels, a tomato and mozzarella
salad, and Cullen skink (smoked fish, potato, and leek) stew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of it was absolutely delicious, but it
made me glad that I hadn’t really had much lunch!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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On the way back to my B&B, I decided to make an
impromptu stop at the beach I had passed on the way in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t pass up a chance to put my toes in
the sand!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was only 18*C (64.4*F), so
the sand was pretty cold.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cold
didn’t deter me from even testing out the water in the loch (which was even
colder!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nothing better than my toes in the sand!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loch Morar beach</td></tr>
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The next day I headed off to the Isle of Skye, which meant
another ferry ride.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to drive
for a while before I went to the Clan Donald Skye Center, so I headed up the
coast toward Broadmoor and back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During part of my drive, you could actually
see the fog rolling in over the mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from ferry, looking back at Mallaig</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Statue on the dock at Mallaig</td></tr>
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this little journey, I realized that I should probably get gas if I was going
to drive around since gas stations aren’t as prevalent in the UK as they are in
the US.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found one and pulled in, at
which point I realized that I didn’t know which side the tank was on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank goodness for a random conversation I
had at the beach this year with my parents and my sister-in-law’s parents about
most cars having an indicator on the dashboard that tells you where to find the
gas tank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I looked, and there it was a
little triangle on the left side of the tank symbol!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eureka!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The Clan Donald Skye Center has a museum, library, gardens,
castle, gift shops, and a restaurant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is also an area where you can participate in Highland games, but
that part was closed the day I was there (too bad, I was really hoping to see
how I did on some of those activities!!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The museum has exhibits about clan and local history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although most of the items are specifically
related to the family history of the McDonalds, there are some things that are
more general in nature and would apply to general life in Scotland or the Isle
of Skye at particular times in history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The library has 7,000 books, mostly about history:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>family, clan, local, naval, military,
biography; although there are other books about geography and other subjects,
too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also have maps, clan lists,
genealogies, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have not
digitized much, if any, of their collection; but they have some items on
microfilm/microfiche.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My dining companion for lunch</td></tr>
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The center includes ruins of a laundry building and the
Armadale castle, which is where the McDonald clan lived long ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither building currently has a roof, but
the walls are still standing and the buildings are still beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent a little time wandering around the
outside of the castle and taking pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Front of Armadale Castle (former home of Clan Donald)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's tall!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View through the ruin of Armadale Castle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from Armadale Castle (basically the front yard)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back of Armadale Castle</td></tr>
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The gardens are tranquil and full of ponds and flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are a perfect place to sit and ponder
the meaning of life or just sit and daydream for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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At the end of my time on Skye, I took the ferry back to the
mainland and wondered once again why ferries are always cold…no matter what the
weather is on land!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I browsed through a
shop or two in Mallaig before heading to a local inn for dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Driving is becoming easier and easier.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Parking…not so much!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason, I am having difficulty
parking from the opposite direction (which is strange, since I pull into
parking spots on both sides in the US).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Who knew that parallel parking would ever be easier than parking in a
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The next day, I decided to explore the mainland a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I drove and drove and drove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found beaches and lochs and coves and
bays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made friends with sheep and
lovely old Scottish gentlemen who talked my ears off about fishing and family
and golf and Virginia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was being
attacked by midgies (black flies), so he rooted around in his tackle box and
gave me his extra bottle of “midgie cream” that he swore by…it was Avon
Skin-So-Soft!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m not sure it really
worked, because I still have bites but maybe they came from before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was such a sweet man, and I enjoyed
talking with him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Though, I did have
some trouble understanding some of what he was saying, and I felt awful
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I continued driving around and finally got the picture of
the waterfall that I had been seeing each time I went into Mallaig.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then I headed into Mallaig for lunch and to
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Once again, I headed to Mallaig to get food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before lunch, though, I decided to check out
the Mallaig Heritage Center, which is a museum and archive about the history of
the town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It only took about fifteen or
twenty minutes to look through, but it was interesting to see what they felt
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After lunch, I went to Fort William (which is about an hour
away) by way of Glenfinnan so I could try to see the viaduct made famous by the
Harry Potter Hogwart’s Express movie scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I spent a little time in Fort William before heading back to
the coast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to stop in Arisaig
for dinner on the way and then headed back to the B&B for the night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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On Sunday, I decided to relax and watch movies and read all
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was glorious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hadn’t had one of these days in weeks, so I
enjoyed every bit of it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I finally
headed out into public for dinner and ended my Scotland trip with fish and chips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because it was National Ice Cream Day in the
US, I also grabbed a Magnum bar at the Co-operative Grocery Store and ate it
while sitting on the rocks near the shore listening to the waves hit the rocks
below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in all, it was a wonderful
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Monday morning, I woke up bright and early to get an early
start on my trip so I could easily catch my 2:30 train back to London.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trip from Morar to Edinburgh is only
supposed to take 3 hours and 45 minutes, but I didn’t want to take any chances
with traffic or getting lost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I dropped
off my rental car and got a cab to the train station to await my train back to
the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My days of driving on the wrong
side of the road are all over for now!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The train trip back to London has been full of excitement
over the Royal Baby’s impending arrival, excitement over my first class seat
which gives me extra leg room and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>other
perks, and time and space to work on my blog!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I used the free wi-fi to blog and to watch Netflix, while enjoying my reclining seat and the complimentary orange and chocolate biscuits (or cookies)!</span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">The baby boy was born just before 4:30pm today, and he weighed in at 8 lb. 6 oz. Tonight was spent listening to the cheering and rejoicing in the streets and watching the BBC coverage on the television. My vote for a name is Alexander, but I might be a little biased since that is my nephew's name!! </span></div>
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<u>Day 20:</u></div>
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Today was a free day in Edinburgh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We could use it for our research if we needed
to, but we could also use it for travel or just to wander around a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I decided to sleep late (yay!) and then do a
little shopping in Edinburgh before I headed to the Storytelling Centre in
Edinburgh to see what I could find out about their programs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Fortunately, I got really great deals on some clothes at
Primark!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, the guy I talked
to at the <a href="http://www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk/" target="_blank">Scottish Storytelling Centre</a> didn’t have too much extra information to share
with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him that I was a
graduate student doing research about storytelling and asked a few questions,
and he told me that I would find all of the information I needed on the website
and in the two brochures he gave me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Their website is quite helpful, but I was hoping that going in person to
talk to someone would give me more insight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I bought my tickets for the ceilidh that night and browsed their gift
shop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t even look around their cafe because there was a meeting of some type that I didn’t want to
interrupt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I headed off to Starbucks to do a little work and enjoy some
iced coffee before meeting up with my friends to head back to the storytelling
ceilidh (gathering).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Storytelling Centre for the Ceilidh</td></tr>
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A storytelling ceilidh is a Scottish gathering that involves
singing, dancing, and, in this case, storytelling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Scottish Storytelling Centre hosts a
few each month, and we were lucky enough to be around for this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They feature one main teller who opens and
closes each part of the evening and introduces the other tellers from the
audience, almost as if he were an emcee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It lasted almost two and a half hours and included stories, songs, and
poems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really enjoyed the featured
teller’s stories as well as the offerings from the guest tellers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the beginning, the featured teller passes
a book around and audience members can sign up if they have something they wish
to share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not everyone will be able to
share on crowded nights (like this one was), but he tried to vary the line-up
with stories and traditional Scottish songs, a lady playing the Celtic harp,
and a woman reciting poetry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
thoroughly enjoyed my time listening to the stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One man even combined storytelling with
improv skills and asked for input from the audience about setting and plot
points.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He then built the story around
this input.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was hilarious!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Featured Storyteller</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the Guest Tellers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Celtic Harp</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-61153400570177390282013-07-22T13:37:00.000-07:002013-07-22T13:37:23.750-07:00"Let There Be Light"<u>Day 19:</u><br />
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Our class began our library visits in Edinburgh today at the Central Library. We had a presentation from the library workers who each told us about their departments, how the library system was set up, and what the <a href="http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/libraries/" target="_blank">Edinburgh Libraries</a> had to offer its patrons. The system is extremely impressive! The system is divided into neighborhoods, which is similar to how many large systems in the United States divides into branches. However, one major difference is that in Edinburgh the library often shares its space with the neighborhood offices, so community members can go to the library to take care of neighborhood issues. This brings more traffic into the library, which is always a good thing!<br />
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The Central Library (as part of the Edinburgh Libraries) won the Bookseller Best Library Service Award in 2012 and was a finalist for the same award again in 2013. They have hosted the EDGE conference for the past 4 years with great success. The Edinburgh Libraries strive for a Gold Standard of customer service, and in search of the best possible customer experience they have enlisted the assistance of retail service and hospitality professionals to help them improve their customer relations.<br />
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The library system has developed programs such as Edinburgh Reads, which attracts up to 140 people on a regular basis by hosting authors, politicians, etc. as speakers. Under this overall program (Edinburgh Reads), the libraries offer specific programming for all ages and circumstances:<br />
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Get Up and Go--for the over 50 crowd<br />
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Bookbug--a program including storytimes for birth to 3 year olds that is run by the Scotland Book Trust<br />
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Chatterbooks--a reading group for 8-11 year olds<br />
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Summer Reading Challenge--a challenge to read a certain number of books over the summer for school age kids<br />
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Reading Champion Project--a program geared towards kids in residential care (approximately 100 kids in 16 homes, aged 12-15) to have encouragement and a positive experience at the library<br />
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Glitz Lit--a program aimed toward girls that pairs books and beauty<br />
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In addition to all of the age-specific programming, the library system has a team of six people who work on their digital offerings. They have a multiple websites that allow patrons 24/7 access to some of the library's services, eresources, events, social media, etc. In fact, one of the team member's sole job is to be in charge of updating and maintaining the library's social media. They are active on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EdinburghCityLibraries" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, You Tube, Flickr, Twitter (with 7,000 followers), RSS feeds, <a href="http://talesofonecity.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">blogs</a>, etc. They are looking toward branching out onto Pinterest, Google +, and others. They were the first library service in the UK to have a mobile app version of their Your Library website.<br />
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The library system offers ebooks, emagazines (through Zinio, which was the most popular eresource last year), Capital Collections (a heritage collection online that includes exhibitions and an image database), audiobooks, Library2Go, overdrive, etc. The neighborhood libraries offer device classes for patrons if they need help with their Kindles or Nooks or other devices.<br />
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The coolest resource, in my opinion, is their newest resource,
<a href="http://www.ourtownstories.co.uk/" target="_blank">Our Town Stories</a>. This resource offers an online look at stories that are
important to Edinburgh's local history and legend. With these stories,
the librarians gather information and images, which they then put into an
online exhibition. They offer "now and then" looks at streets
and areas of the city. Many of these stories are also featured in
physical exhibits in the neighborhood libraries. <br />
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All of this makes sense when you realize that Edinburgh has been recognized
as a United Nations City of Literature, and in fact it was the first city
recognized as such. Just for trivia's sake, Melbourne, Australia, and
Reykjavik, Iceland, are two other UN Cities of Literature.<br />
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Following the introduction to the library’s services, we had a tour (in
which we got to go up on the gallery in the research room!!!) and saw the
library’s treasures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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During the treasures portion of our visit, we got to see 500 years’ worth of
publishing history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw a copy of a
1495 book by Aristotle that has a tooled leather cover (that was added later).
It is written in Greek and includes very wide margins, which is a sign of very
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We also saw a copy of a Bassandyne Bible, which is the first full Bible
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Then we saw the McDonald family photograph album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The family had traveled to India and hired
photographer Samuel Bourne to take pictures for their album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The book includes pictures of India and
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The next treasure we saw was the first portable atlas of Scotland from
1776.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is long and narrow, so you
would see what you needed to see in the first pane, then move on to the next
pane.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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We took a quick break to have lunch and then headed to New College Library
for our afternoon appointment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The New
College Library is an academic library that focuses primarily on the Divinity
School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It holds over 250,000 books in 5
floors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They use two different
classification systems:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Library of
Congress for the more modern acquisitions and Union Theological Seminary Scheme
Classification for the older items.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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We took a tour of the stacks, including two that are open to the public and
one that is usually only available to staff members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The library has an Archive Room which holds
archival items related to the maintenance of the library and a Bible Room which
is full of Bibles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are 631 Bibles
in one special collection of Bibles, but that is just a fraction of the total
number of Bibles in the total collection at New College Library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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In our trip through the stacks, we saw items such as a Torah, a Bible
written in Sanskrit, the history of British America, a book by John Calvin, and more!<br />
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After our tour, the librarian told us about the history of the library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The building used to be a church, and it
still maintains much of the church’s decor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The stained glass windows were completed in 1934, just as the
congregation was moving out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The church
pews have been turned into library desks and shelves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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We had the privilege of seeing some of their treasures, as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-24895725806701073452013-07-15T15:50:00.004-07:002013-07-15T15:51:35.001-07:00What Is a Hairy Coo, Anyway?!<u>Day 18:</u><br />
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This morning I got up a little ahead of schedule and ate a banana for breakfast while enjoying the view outside the house here at Dalkeith. Then another student and I decided to walk across the bridge in search of the Hairy Coo and just to see what else we could discover. Last night we had explored the house and found secret passage doors and rooms downstairs, so who knew what kinds of things we might find today!<br />
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As we headed into Dalkeith to the bus stop to start our day in Edinburgh, I decided to be adventurous and try a cheese and onion pasty for breakfast. It was quite delicious...it tasted almost like a pierogi. I think it must have had mashed potatoes in it. I was careful to pay close attention to road signs on our way into Edinburgh since I'll be driving later this week. I need to know what they all mean, so I don't end up in a ditch!<br />
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Our bus ride took just over a half hour, and then we did a little shopping before we headed to the <a href="http://www.nls.uk/" target="_blank">National Library of Scotland</a> for a self-guided tour of their exhibits. The first one I went through was the Jane Austen exhibit. It contained a first edition (in three volumes) of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> from 1813, a dress, gloves, and other books and films that have modified the story in some way. There was also an area where visitors could leave their own comments and thoughts about the novel and the display.<br />
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Just beyond the Jane Austen exhibit, was the Picturing Africa display which had letters, journals, maps, paintings and drawings, and glass lantern slides from and relating to David Livingstone's time in Africa. This exhibit was of particular interest to me since I had just seen Livingstone's actual artifacts at the Royal Geographic Society last week. I enjoyed seeing his maps and trying to locate the different areas using the large magnifying glasses.<br />
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After looking around the National Library of Scotland, we passed by Greyfriars Bobby and learned the story of the pub and the statue. Apparently, there was a police constable who had a dog named Bobby. Bobby was a very loyal and protective dog, and he went everywhere with the police constable. The constable died one day, and the dog mourned his owner's death for fourteen years until his own death. There is now a statue and a pub named for Bobby.<br />
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After seeing Greyfriars Bobby, we headed out to see the Elephant House pub, which is where J.K. Rowling wrote much of the <i>Harry Potter</i> series. We took photos outside and then went to another nearby pub for lunch.<br />
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Our appointment with the <a href="http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/" target="_blank">National Records of Scotland</a> was really interesting. We learned that the building was built in the late 1780s for the express purpose of housing records. It's known for its dome (the Adam Dome). This building is one of three buildings that house Scotland's records and is the only one available to the public. The other two buildings are only open to staff. One of the more modern buildings is Thomas Thomson House, which was constructed in 1995 for record storage. It is climate-controlled and has a conservation center and a box-making facility on site. <br />
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The organization used to be known as the National Archives, but they just recently merged with the General Registrar and are now collectively known as the National records of Scotland. Their website is a portal that can link users to all of their different services and describe the different functions of each of the departments. Family history research is a huge part of their work, and researchers can do some of their searching from home by buying credits to gain access to the <a href="http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/?gclid={SI:gclid}&gclid=CKqZ1JfCsrgCFXIQtAodUzoAUg" target="_blank">Scotland People website.</a> On this website, researchers can search birth, death, and marriage records, census records, church and parish records, wills and testaments, and other business and legal documents. Since many of the documents are handwritten, there is even a website to help you read the Scottish handwriting, vocabulary, alphabet, etc. Check out the <a href="http://www.scottishhandwriting.com/" target="_blank">handwriting tutorial website</a> for more information! If you still need more help and you're in the Edinburgh area, the NRS offers a night class about Scottish handwriting at Edinburgh University.<br />
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Tartans and plaids are a big deal in Scotland, and they are for sale in every shop on every street almost. However, if your family has a particular plaid, you want to make sure that it is authentic. <a href="http://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/" target="_blank">The Scottish Register of Tartans</a> will not only show you what tartans are available, but it will also allow you to register your own design if it meets the specifications. <br />
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If you know that your family is from a particular area of Scotland or you plan on visiting Scotland and you want more information about that area, you might want to try checking out the <a href="http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/" target="_blank">Scotland Places website</a> which gives local history about counties, or shires, in Scotland. <br />
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The NRS maintains records that date from the 12th century, with the oldest item being a brieve from King David I from 1120s which grants land to build a church near Edinburgh Castle. Users access electronic material instead of the original in most cases. This means that they have had a huge push toward digitization in recent years, but even though much of their collection is digitized users can still only access the Virtual Volumes on site and not from home yet. <br />
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Formal registration began in 1855, so government records after that are much more complete than the church or parish records that precede them. Additionally, after 1855 the records would be kept in a standard format and not just in whatever way the church record-keepers felt like it. They have wills dating from the 1530s to the present and census records from 1841-1911. <br />
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Researchers coming in need a Reader's Ticket, which requires identification and two passport photographs. They must also follow a certain set of guidelines for using the Search Rooms (no pens, no food or drink, no cell phones or cameras, etc.). This ticket can be renewed every three years as needed. If you need material, you contact the librarians in advance so that they can locate the material and bring it from the other sites if necessary. <br />
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We got to see some of their more interesting records, such as a book of letters from 1513 between King Louis XII and King James of Scotland detailing their cooperation against the British. We also got to see a book of household accounts dating from 1673 that lists golf balls and golf clubs as some of the items the young master of the house needs to purchase along with wig powder and clothing. Another interesting item were maps and plans to improve Callendar that showed how they would divide up the new fews (plots) and the old fews on the acreage.<br />
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One item was particularly interesting to me because it was a receipt for a person's arrival to Accomack, VA. Apparently, people were sometimes sent to the United States not exactly by choice, but by "transportation" and upon arrival in the US, someone sent a letter (like the one we saw) back to Scotland noting their receipt. <br />
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On my way out of the NRS, I double-checked the books they have available for sale to see if McDaniel was listed under any of the McDonald clans. I had been unable to find it in any of the other books. Finally, I found it!!!!!! Yay! My father will be so excited! In fact, I was so excited that I did a little dance...right there in the lobby of the National Records of Scotland! After a little more shopping, my time in Edinburgh was complete for today and I headed back to Dalkeith for more adventures!<br />
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We stumbled upon the <a href="http://www.midlothian.gov.uk/info/200150/dalkeith_library" target="_blank">Dalkeith Library</a> just as we got off the bus back in Dalkeith, so we decided to head in and see what it was like. The librarian was particularly friendly and told us all about the different things we could find on our walks at Dalkeith Palace. We grabbed another delicious dinner of minestrone soup and cheesy garlic bread (it was so yummy last night, I decided that I would do it again tonight!) and ate outside in the fresh air. Once we were finished with dinner we went on a quest to find the Hairy Coo! We passed fields and walked down paths and through brambles. We passed stables and found an orangerie. We crossed a bridge, and there it was--THE COO!! It was quite a shy coo, though. It kept turning away from us when we wanted to take his picture, but we found the hairy coo! He's quite adorable :) We stayed and watched the Hairy Coo for a while, and then we continued exploring. We found an old amphitheater and a rabbit. Here are some pictures from our adventure!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-91940780907931504342013-07-14T15:37:00.003-07:002013-07-14T15:39:30.832-07:00Goodbye, England! Hello, Scotland!<u>Day 17:</u><br />
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So we were on a bus for nine hours today. I didn't have much to do except take pictures of the scenery going by, so here are some of those pictures. Once we got here, we got our rooms at Dalkeith Palace (a old manor house that belonged to a Duke that sits on 800 acres of woods and fields), took a little walk to the bus stop, got dinner at a local pizza place (YUMMY minestrone soup and garlic cheese bread!!), and came back to explore the palace a bit. We found a secret passage in our room and checked to see if it went to Narnia or to the Room of Requirement or anywhere else particularly exciting (it didn't...sadly). Tomorrow, we'll venture into Edinburgh to start our library tours and other adventures!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-75413111653600854632013-07-13T10:06:00.001-07:002013-07-13T10:06:32.026-07:00Free Time in London<u>Day 16:</u><br />
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I started this morning with a tour of Parliament. I learned all about the British House of Lords and House of Commons and how the government is formatted. We got to see the Queen's route to her throne and heard that she is not allowed in the House of Commons room. Instead, she sends her servant as her representative. Also, while the Queen is at Parliament, a member of Parliament volunteers to go stay at Buckingham Palace as almost a hostage until she gets back home--just in case. <br />
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I learned about all of the monarchs and saw statues of each of them. The statue of Queen Victoria is accompanied by a representation of "justice", but justice's scales are missing. We learned that when a vote is finally called, the representatives have exactly 8 minutes to return to Parliament from wherever they are to vote in person. A bell announces that time is starting, and this bell rings not only in Parliament, but also in surrounding pubs and restaurants. Representatives vote by walking down a hallway that denotes either "yes" or "no" and their name is crossed off of a list as they pass through. <br />
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After leaving Parliament, we got award-winning ice cream (who can pass up award-winning ice cream?!) and headed to Trafalgar Square to check out the Get Reading festival being held there. As librarians, we felt it was our duty to support any reading initiative we could! (Plus, Hugh Grant and Anthony Horowitz were supposed to be there!!!!!) We walked around to the different vendors and checked out some of the storytelling from the National Art Gallery, which ended up being more like an art history lesson for kids. We saw the Nook book signing area and realized that Anthony Horowitz wouldn't be there until way later, so we would probably miss him. We watched dancers and readers on stage and on a big screen performing and saw kids getting their faces painted and eating ice cream. </div>
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Each of us had afternoon plans, so we left the square to set off on our other adventures. I headed back home to meet another few people to head back out on a Shakespeare archeological walk in Shoreditch. Of course, we choose the hottest day of the year in London to do all of this outdoor activity!! After a bit of a mishap with the bus, we made it to the meeting point just in the nick of time to catch the tour group just as they were leaving. Our tour guide took us to the two archaeological sites where The Theatre and the Curtain Theatre are being excavated. Both are important to London history and of particular interest to Shakespeare scholars. Along the way, he talked about where actors and writers lived and worked. The walk was interesting, informative, and enjoyable (despite the heat!). Many of the places are now only represented by plaques on the wall since many modern buildings have been built since the 17th century on top of the sites of old theatres, pubs, houses, and roads. The hand-out was helpful because it had maps from different time periods along with pictures of archaeological digs and of the people the guide was discussing.</div>
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The rest of today will be spent packing up to head to Edinburgh and the Isle of Skye for next week. I'm looking forward to spending some time in Scotland before we head back to London for the last week. I have thoroughly enjoyed London so far, but I think I'm ready for some non-city time, too. By the way, it reached 32*C here today...which is close to 90*F (not normal London weather, at all!!!!). </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-1289471692884962162013-07-12T15:48:00.000-07:002013-08-06T07:25:20.980-07:00Mummies, Music, and Ministry<u>Day 15:</u><br />
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We started today at the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/libraries_and_archives.aspx" target="_blank">British Museum Central Archives</a>. Our guide is the only archivist on staff at the museum, and she is in charge of taking care of the records. They maintain trustee records, financial records, staff records, Reading Room records, and building records. The majority of the records are trustee records, which are very detailed minutes that describe the inner workings of the museum. The trustee records date back to the beginning of the museum in 1753.<br />
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The <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/?ref=header" target="_blank">British Museum</a> is divided into eight different collections departments, and those departments maintain the collections of artifacts and objects, while the archives maintain the collections of letters, journals, etc. The trustee books include letters, Christmas cards, financial reports, minutes, and other information about the museum. Also, they have letter books which have transcriptions of out-going correspondence so that researchers can read the entire conversation.<br />
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The museum archives only has staff records up to the 1920s, and anything more recent is kept by the Human Resources department instead. These are particularly useful for family history inquiries.<br />
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In addition to paper records, the archives also maintains 15,000 photographs, which are hard to catalog when there is very little annotation about location and subject. Some of the photographs are from 1854 and Roger Fenton, who was the first official museum photographer. He took stereoscopic view pictures, so you have to have the stereoscopic viewer glasses to see them in 3D. I got to look through the viewer and look at a picture of an Irish deer.<br />
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Building records are also maintained by the archives. Architectural drawings of Robert Smirke's designs for the museum are kept in shallow drawers. Property records for the museum building and surrounding properties are also maintained by the archives. The famed Round Reading Room (which is currently closed and used as an exhibit space and should be open sometime next year) records are part of the archives collections, too. Over 200 boxes contain signature cards and signature books for users from 1790-1973. Many famous names have come through the British Museum in those centuries, including Karl Marx (there are 10 instances of him signing in to the Reading Room), Beatrix Potter, E.M. Forster, T. S. Eliot, Bram Stoker, Rudyard Kipling, etc.<br />
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In 1941, the museum was hit by a shell during the Blitz in World War II. The shell exploded when it hit the Coins and Metals display area. I got to hold the exploded shell, which is heavier than I expected.<br />
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Before our tour began and after our tour was over, we got to explore the museum, itself. Here are some pictures of some of the exhibits I saw while I was there.</div>
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After the museum, we went to London <a href="http://www.hardrock.com/locations/cafes3/cafe.aspx?LocationID=91&MIBEnumID=3" target="_blank">Hard Rock Cafe'</a> for lunch. We were lucky enough to get into their vault while we waited for a table. Then, once we were seated, we ate lunch beside a Queen gold record and beneath a guitar belonging to the Eagles guitarist, Joe Walsh. Here are some pictures:</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-90282707923496674922013-07-12T14:06:00.001-07:002013-07-12T15:58:16.366-07:00Can I Mapquest the South Pole?<u>Day 14:</u><br />
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Today we visited the <a href="http://www.rgs.org/HomePage.htm" target="_blank">Royal Geographical Society</a> (RGS), which is one of the coolest places ever!!!!! On the outside of the building, they have two statues of David Livingstone and Ernest Shackleton on the sides of what they call the "Hot and Cold Corner." We got to talk to the librarian there, and he showed us some of the items from their extensive collection of over 2 million items. Of those 2 million items, half are maps which means they have the largest private map collection in Europe (and maybe in the world). 2000 items are atlases, including their oldest atlas based on the work of Ptolemy and is from Germany in 1490. The picture collection includes 1/2 million pictures, mainly photographs that document the history of British exploration of India, Africa, Central Asia, and the Polar Regions during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Only about 15,000 are digitized, because they tend to digitize on an as-needed basis for user requests or for projects due to budgetary issues. They also have 20,000 glass lantern slides which were used to give lectures and presentations during the 19th century (kind of like PowerPoint is used now). The remainder of the collection includes 250,000 books and periodicals and the archives. The archives consists of letters, logbooks, journals, diaries, correspondence, collections relating to specific people (such as Livingstone) or specific expeditions (such as Mt. Everest), articles, fellowship certificates, membership lists, etc. The smallest part of the collection is, arguably, the most important--the objects and artifacts. They have 1500 artifacts in the collection, and these objects can be borrowed by other museums to go out on exhibit if the borrowing institution agrees to follow strict guidelines for handling and care.<br />
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All objects and artifacts are received by donation, but they still buy maps and books to maintain current collections of those materials. <br />
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Our guide showed us some of these artifacts and told us the corresponding story for each one. He started with the "Hot Side" and the search for the source of the Nile. The RGS became involved in the search for the Nile's source in the 1850s and sent explorers Richard Burton and John Speke to Africa to see what they could find. They took an Bombay African (an African man living in India), called "Bombay" with them as a guide or helper. The trio started near Zanzibar and headed to Lake Tanganyika, which Burton believed to be the Nile's source. Once they arrived at the Lake, they were ill and needed to stay there to recover from their journey. Burton's recovery took longer than Bombay's and Speke's, so they left him at Lake Tanganyika and headed off to another lake (which Speke called Lake Victoria). This lake was Speke's choice as the source for the Nile. Both explorers returned to the RGS and made their cases to the rest of the Society. The RGS felt that Speke made a better case, so they sent him back on another expedition with James Grant to see if they could prove that Lake Victoria was, in fact, the source of the Nile. They, too, were unsuccessful. Finally in the 1860s, the most famous of the Nile explorers, David Livingstone, was sent into Africa to find the Nile's source. He didn't believe Speke, though, and thought that Lake Tanganyika was the source. He focused his search on Lake Tanganyika, discovered the Victoria Falls, and wandered around unsuccessfully for years without contact with the RGS. Eventually, the RGS sent Henry Morton Stanley, a reporter for an American newspaper, on an expedition to locate David Livingstone. When Stanley found Livingstone, Stanley reports that he said, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume," but there is no record of this exchange in Livingstone's journals or papers. Livingstone died in 1873, and his body was mummified before being sent back to England and buried in Westminster Abbey. Some of Livingstone's maps were the first published maps of a region. <br />
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Stanley returned after Livingstone's death and proved once and for all that Lake Tanganyika was not the source of the Nile by following the river all the way to the sea and realizing that it was really the Congo. He then proved that Lake Victoria was the source. He then became connected to King Leopold and the exploitation of the people in the Congo by the Belgians. He, therefore, lost favor with the public. <br />
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The librarian showed us how to use a sextant, which is a tool that explorers would have used. In order to measure distance, you point the sextant at the horizon (but you need a clear view of the horizon). If you have an obstructed view, then you would need a second piece of equipment called an "artificial horizon" which includes mercury, a trough in which to pour the mercury, and a cover to make sure the mercury stays debris-free and doesn't spill. There were many sizes of sextants, including a pocket-sized one that could be carried along with you very easily.<br />
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Another "hot side" story is that of Percy Fawcett (who was born on my birthday in 1867!), who explored South America. He was sent to South America in 1906 and 1909 to create a map and determine a boundary between Argentina and Brazil. He returned and went again to South America in 1925, this time with his son in search of a lost city in the Brazilian rainforest he called "Z." No one knows whether he made it to "Z" or not (or even if the city even exists), because Fawcett, his son, and his son's friend disappeared and were never heard from again.<br />
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From the "Cold Side" of the table, the librarian showed us Inuit boots and a visor that prevents snow blindness, both brought back to RGS by Sir William Edward Parry from his Northwest Passage expedition.<br />
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Another part of the "Cold Side" collection was the materials related to George Mallory and his climb of Mt. Everest. The British became interested in Mt. Everest during their colonization of India. They attempted to map Central Asia, but were not successful except in estimating the heights of the peaks. From the 1920s to 1953 (when the summit was reached by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay) the RGS sent many expeditions to attempt a successful climb to the summit. However, the most famous was in 1924 when George Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine headed up toward the peak. Unfortunately, Mallory and Irvine were last seen on 24 May 1924 heading into the distance on the last leg of the climb. Mallory's body was found in 1999 preserved by the cold conditions. No one knows whether they actually made it to the top or not, because his camera was missing. The men who found Mallory's body decided to cover his body with stones and bring his personal effects (goggles, boots, glove, watch, pen knife, box of sweets) back from Mt. Everest, and after some time they ended up at the RGS. They also never found Andrew Irvine's body, but they did find his ice axe near Mallory's body.<br />
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Mt. Everest is littered with the bodies of climbers who haven't made it to the top and who have died in the attempt. The conditions on the mountain are brutal, and people can only spend a certain amount of time at the summit because of the lack of oxygen the cold temperatures, the pressure, etc. Climbers first started using oxygen during the 1920s.<br />
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In the afternoon, a few of us went to Camden Town to shop and just hang out. We went to the World's End Pub and wandered around the Camden Market for awhile.<br />
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After a late night getting back from Stratford last night, we are off bright and early for the Victoria & Albert Museum (or the V&A) and the <a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/n/national-art-library/" target="_blank">National Art Library</a>. I was stunned immediately upon walking into the Rotunda by the Chihuly sculpture hanging from the ceiling. There had been a Chihuly exhibit at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts this past year, but I didn't get a chance to see it. I am glad I got to see this piece, though, because it is spectacular!<br />
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We headed upstairs for our meeting with the assistant librarian of the National Art Library. She told us a little about the library itself and how it is set up. The collections cover approximately 1 million items relating to art. The library serves three functions. First, it is a reading room for the V&A. Second, it is the research library for V&A staff. Finally, the librarians act as curators for the V&A materials. They collect books as art pieces as well as for their content. <br />
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About 30,000 visitors use the library each year. Of those, about half are art or design students. The rest are academics (teachers or students in other fields), genealogists, researchers looking for information about provenance of an item. Because they do not have open access stacks, users must request materials ahead of time online. Users can reserve materials for up to three days, if necessary. Additionally, users have access to electronic databases such as JSTOR, but they are only available on site. However, they are working to change this in the near future. The library's collection includes 11,000 periodicals from common magazines such as <i>Vogue, Harper's, </i>or <i>Tattler</i> to journals that are more specific to the art world such as <i>Art Journal </i>or <i>Atheneum</i>. They have some complete runs of periodicals, too, which is a rarity. <br />
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They have a yearly acquisitions budget that is 170,000 pound, but most of their items still mainly come from donations. One donation from the Foster family gave the library 11,000 items. Within this bequest was a Dickens manuscript, a 1st Folio from William Shakespeare, a poem by Keats, and DaVinci Codices. <br />
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After showing us around the library, our guide showed us some of the library's treasures. We got to see an illuminated manuscript from 1400. The Book of Hours includes 10 miniatures and would have included 10 more, but someone removed them many years ago to display them separately. The book has been rebound in both the 18th and 20th centuries, and it has the binding history in the back which is not always the case. <br />
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Next, she told us about a facsimile of a Leonardo da Vinci codex that was created in 1992. The original was from 1493-1505. The facsimile itself is worth at least 20,000 pound. <br />
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The next treasure she showed us was a book of lithographic plates. The 42 pictures were published in 1832 by Edward Lear (most known as a limerick poet). This book was his first publication, and he had subscribers give him money to help him cover the cost of publishing the book. The list of subscribers is in the front of the book. The lithographs are life-sized drawings of parrots that he drew from living birds instead of stuffed birds as others used. Lear was compared to Audubon because of this book. The drawings are so life-like, and the colors are vibrant.<br />
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She showed us a box created by Geneviève Seillé in 1990. It shows her interest in graffiti, medieval literature, magic, words, and letters. There is no meaning or symbolism behind the "book item," which comes apart and is covered with writing and is full of hidden compartments and secrets. <br />
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After the V&A, a few of us went to Hyde Park on an unsuccessful search for the statue of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy that apparently has been put into the Serpentine there. Sadly, we did not find it, so we came back to King's College to be productive for the rest of the afternoon since we were going on a Jack the Ripper Walk at night. </div>
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The Jack the Ripper Walk began near the Tower of London and took us to a few of the sites of the murders, past the "Prostitutes' Church" where Jack picked up his victims (or they picked him up), to the site where the bloody knife was found with the cryptic message about the Jews, into the East End, and ended at the Ten Bells Pub where the final victim spent time drinking. It lasted almost two hours, and our guide did not hold back on the graphic parts. One person in our tour said, "Wow! I didn't realize that it would be so violent." I'm not sure what she thought she would be getting when she took a tour of a serial killer's haunts, but I got what I paid for, I think. The guide talked about the five victims (some people claim six victims, but most "Ripperologists" only count five), who they were and how they lived their lives. He talked about the rivalry between the police forces, even sharing stories about police officers from one force dressing up as prostitutes and heading into the other force's territory to try to trap the killer and then getting arrested. He showed us where bodies were found and explained what it would have looked like 123 years ago. We saw the "Prostitutes' Church" and the old gates between the East End and the City of London. At the end of the walk, he discussed the four main suspects considered by the police then. None were ever convicted or even tried, so no one will ever know who Jack the Ripper really was. The walk was really interesting, and it made me want to go read more about the subject. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-76391104210787469102013-07-11T13:34:00.001-07:002013-07-11T13:34:48.241-07:00"Do you not know that I am a woman? When I think, I must speak!" (As You Like It 3.2.240)<u>Day12:</u><br />
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As an English major and a language arts teacher, William Shakespeare is one of my favorite people. That means Stratford-Upon-Avon is definitely a bucket-list kind of place for me. I have been looking forward to going to Stratford for years, perhaps even decades! The first thing I saw as we drove into town were Tudor-style houses. As we reach the car park and disembark from the bus, I found myself getting excited to just walk the same streets as William and his family did so long ago. As we reach the start of High Street, I notice a statue of a jester with quotes from a few of his plays inscribed around the base.<br />
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We decided to wander down High Street and browse in some of the shops along the way. We weren't really looking for anything in particular, just trying to see what was available. I love that everything is so picturesque.<br />
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Eventually, we made it to the public library, and headed inside to see their children and young adult section. After perusing their collection and picking up a few flyers about programming, we stopped to talk to a librarian at an information desk. She told us that they didn't have a specific person responsible for the children/young adult section and that the library worked closely with the community to run programs. I enjoyed talking with her and hearing more about the way public libraries work in the UK. The four of us bought canvas bags, and she was really excited that we wanted to purchase them! (They're really cute!)<br />
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Once we left the library, I picked up a lemon-poppyseed muffin (delicious!) in a local restaurant, and we carried on with our wanderings. At the end of High Street, we decided to head toward Trinity Church, which is where William Shakespeare attended church and is buried. The walk there along the river was lovely and relaxing. There was a park where people were hanging out listening to music, the theatre we were going to see the play in later, the shops, the river with boats to rent, and a mini-golf course on the other side of the river. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boats were named for Shakespeare's female characters. There was no "Kate."</td></tr>
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When we reached the cemetery at Trinity Church, I noticed how peaceful and beautiful it was with the sunlight floating through the trees. Again, I made my father proud by taking pictures of tombstones! Here are some pictures from the cemetery and the exterior of the church:<br />
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This church is where William Shakespeare and his family attended. He and his family are also buried here under the altar floor. Shakespeare's grave has a curse inscribed on it that says, "Good friend for Jesus' sake forbear, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man who spares these stones and cursed be the he who moves my bones." Here are pictures of the interior of the church including Shakespeare's grave.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shakespeare's grave with the curse.</td></tr>
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We left Trinity Church and headed back toward the main part of town to get an early dinner. We decided to sit in the park and nap, read, or blog after eating our burgers and milkshakes. Overall, the day was beyond relaxing and idyllic, which was exactly what I needed after a hectic Paris weekend! When it was time for the play, I was ready to see a fantastic production of <i>As You Like It</i>, and the <a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/whats-on/as-you-like-it/" target="_blank">Royal Shakespeare Company</a> certainly did not disappoint!<br />
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The production was not a traditional one, but that is what made it unique and wonderful! The actors playing Rosalind and Orlando were brilliant and believable together. The costuming with the contrasting dark clothing for when in the duke's court and colorful for when in the Forest of Arden and set design using the rotating stage and the pit of gravel were clever and added to my overall experience. I thoroughly enjoyed the production, and I was raving about it afterward. The best thing I can say about the play is that I heard non-Shakespeare fans talking about how much fun it was and how much they had enjoyed it. At the end of a long, but idyllic day, we headed back to the buses and began our journey back to London. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-5601216789279772472013-07-10T15:35:00.001-07:002013-07-10T15:35:57.692-07:00Digging in the Dirt<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<u>Day 11:</u></div>
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Today we visited the London Archeological Archive Research
Centre (LAARC) at the Mortimer Wheeler Building.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is where all of the Museum of London’s
items that aren’t on display live.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
used to be a steel tubing warehouse, so they had to work around that structure
when they turned it into LAARC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
started in the Social and Working History Collections section that included
toys and games.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The archive collects all
items that have ever been used in London or have been connected to London in
some way. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They do not have duplicate
items, and each item is numbered and cataloged in Mimsy (which is their
cataloging system).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their storage rooms
have sensors that send environmental information to a control system that can
adjust as necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A look into the storage room</td></tr>
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They have everything from Legos and matchbox cars to
dollhouse furniture and puppets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Included in this area is a large telephone operator’s switchboard that
used to belong at Buckingham Palace.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
lines are still labeled for the Queen’s rooms and the Palace staff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are deciding whether to display it under
its current conditions or to conserve and restore it before they display it
somewhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While they make those
decisions, it sits in the storage area at LAARC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Buckingham Palace Switchboard</td></tr>
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In another area, the shelves hold parts of the interiors of
buildings. The process for moving those pieces is to deconstruct the building,
number and label each piece, and then reconstruct the pieces at a later
date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pieces we saw were still
labeled to show their building of origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pieces in the storage area are available to researchers by
appointment, and they have a little bit of everything that one might think to
research.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The halls house the items that
are too large or too heavy to move, such as a gold weighing machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Floor tiles from a deconstructed building</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Labeled piece of the Granville Theatre</td></tr>
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LAARC has a conservation room complete with a hospital-grade
x-ray machine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All metal items are
x-rayed when they arrive so that the archaeologists can see any
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The oldest pieces at at the archive were the prehistoric
flints, axeheads or arrowheads, that had been excavated at Heathrow Airport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These prehistoric flints
are kept in cabinets in the hallway on the route to the processing area.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The van drivers visit excavations and bring
the loads of stuff there for processing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Each bag is coded with a 3-letter/2-number code (eg, BZY 10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The letters refer to the streets or area
where the material was excavated, and the number refers to the year the
excavation began (not the year it was actually found).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also on the labels is a context number, which
indicates the 3D position in the ground of the object.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The researchers want to be able to
reconstruct the stratigraphy (layers in the ground) of the dig at a later
date.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The description of the find is
included on the label so that later users will know what they are seeing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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I found it interesting that waterlogged conditions are
excellent for preserving wood, leather, bones, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their current excavation site is known in the BBC as the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22103659" target="_blank">“Pompeii of the North”</a> because the material they are processing is
in such good condition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bags of known
material are not the only things brought back for processing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Buckets of soil samples are also returned to
LAARC to be sifted to find seeds, small bones, etc. and those small pieces from
the soil can tell researchers about eating habits of the people living there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From each dig, researchers also collect
3-4-meter long soil cores to study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Soil Cores</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A "Chicken Feeder," Perhaps</td></tr>
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Having family members who enjoy relic hunting back home, I
kept thinking about how much they would drool over talking to these experts and
seeing the processing area and all of the boxes of materials they have
found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">As we were wandering through, we saw one of the
researchers who was in the middle of processing some of his finds from his most
recent find.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He stopped to show us what
he was working on and tell us about what he had found.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was excited to be working on a 17<sup>th</sup>
century site instead of the Roman sites he had been working on for so long. He showed us a porridge dish that was made of tin instead of iron, door handles that were wooden and iron, spindles, glazed pots that had been through a double firing process (new technology for the time), decorated stoneware, and what he thinks is a chicken feeder. The next step in processing the material is drying it. Most material is air dried or oven dried. The researcher showed us some of the stuff from his find that was in the process of drying: shears, spoons that had the owner's initials on the top, a cloth seal (that was pinned to the cloth and gives the clothes' place of origin), and a needle. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More of the finds from the 17th century dig</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Once we left the processing area, we headed up to the archive storage area. We passed a stone cannonball which had been excavated at The Theatre. Our guide told us that every Shakespeare theatre excavation had included a stone cannonball, which they believe was a prop used to create weather noises (such as thunder) when rolled across the floor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">LAARC is the world's largest archaeological archive, with 10.5 km. of shelving and that number is increasing daily. They run an extensive volunteer program on a 10 week basis, and then once their 10 weeks are up they can begin a longer program. Additionally, LAARC has work experience programs for teenagers and internships for college students. Mostly, the volunteers and interns repackage and catalog materials to make it easier to access by users. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The archive itself is organized by year, with bulk materials arranged around the outer edge. Each item has a card that includes location information and a scale drawing of the actual item. They keep a paper copy and a digital copy of these cards. They also maintain a physical file that includes the original plans of each dig. The location of each find, stratigraphy information, and provenance documentation for each item is kept in these files. These are also kept digitally and on paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Pottery reference drawers allow users to see sample pieces of every type of pottery to compare the different ages and types. Each is labeled with a card indicating location, age, material, and other necessary information. </span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-46186967169732200402013-07-10T08:04:00.002-07:002013-07-10T08:06:02.774-07:00Paris, Ah, Paris (Part 2)<u>Days 9-10:</u><br />
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Saturday morning I wake up, get ready, head back downstairs
with all of my stuff (because the room I ended up in at 2am wasn’t where I was
staying the whole weekend), and continue my scavenger hunt for beds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This time, I get the help of one of the BSP
leaders, which makes life way easier!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
get the right room, put my stuff away, and grab breakfast before heading off to
Versailles for the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even though
we had to get back on a bus after having been on a bus for so long just the day
before, we figured getting to see the Palace at Versailles would be worth
it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we are getting to the town, we
notice black smoke billowing up above the trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are looking to see from where it comes,
and then we see that a car is on fire (not a little fire, a fully engaged ball
of fire) in a parking lot! It was completely random!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gates at Versailles</td></tr>
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We arrive at Versailles and get in line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stand in line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We continue to stand in line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Impressively, though, the line seems to have
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organized way almost like the Temple Grandin livestock lines do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no barriers keeping people in line
or indicating where the line should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are no workers directing traffic, but still the line remains
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long time, because we had time to discuss this at length!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Once we finally made it into Versailles, I saw the gorgeous
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bottleneck was in the Queen’s bedroom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We probably could have spent longer at Versailles, but we had limited
time and needed to get back to Paris for afternoon activities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gardens at Versailles</td></tr>
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One of our group members really wanted to see the catacombs,
so we had decided to head there upon arrival back in Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had checked the website, mapped out our
metro trip, and planned the rest of our day around that activity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We start our marathon metro trip across the
city, and the bad luck starts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, we
realize that we had been looking at the wrong blue line, so one member of our
group gets on the train thinking that she knows the right stop before we can
tell her it’s not the right one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of
the rest of us can fit on the train, so she’s on there by herself going to the
wrong stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another member of our group
gets groped on the train and has to get off and catch the next train because
she can’t get back to our car.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I almost
get pick-pocketed walking down into the metro station the ONE time I have my
bag on the back of my body instead of on the front of my body!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After riding an extremely crowded metro train
for an hour, we arrive at the catacombs at 4:15.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They stop letting people in at 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, their website says they close at 5, but
it says NOTHING about the fact that they don’t let people in after 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, back on the metro, we go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We headed back across the city to the Hard Rock Café for
dinner because one of the girls in our group had that on her list of “must-do”
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time, we were all tired
and ready to just sit, eat, drink, and enjoy some music and each other’s
company for a while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> After dinner, we walked back toward Pont Neuf and around the Louvre, where we were able to see the Arc de Triomphe off in the distance.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Louvre Pyramid at Night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of the Louvre (NOT the Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile which is actually off in the background)</td></tr>
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That night we did make it onto our boat trip on the Seine,
which was a highlight of my trip!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
enjoyed seeing all of the people just sitting along the river banks waving and
hanging out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved seeing the bridges
and the Eiffel Tower from the river.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it was over, we sat on Pont Neuf again waiting for the Eiffel Tower
to light up and sparkle again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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We had a little more bad luck on the metro ride home,
because one of our group didn’t make it on the train and got left on the
platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We got off at the next stop to
let her catch up with us, and it’s lucky we did!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the next tunnel after we all were together
again, the train stopped and the lights went out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure if any of us had been alone on a
subway train in Paris at 11:30pm in a tunnel when the lights go out, we would
have freaked out just a little bit!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>However, we were all 5 together, and now it’s just a part of our
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Sunday morning, we got up, checked out, and headed off to
the bakery for breakfast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also went
to the coffee shop across from the bakery for some incredible café au
lait.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The owner gave each of us a chocolate
bar to go with our coffee, and I actually melted mine into my drink.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>YUM!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I ended my time in Paris by sitting on the canal by myself journalling
about my trip and listening to music and the city while others in my group went
to Moulin Rouge or back to the catacombs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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After another bus, ferry, bus trip, we finally arrived back
at “home” in London around 8pm Sunday night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I can honestly say that there were parts of Paris that were
beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am glad I went because I
would have always wondered, but I don’t really have any need to go back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our little group laughed and had good times,
but we definitely like London much better than Paris!!</div>
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Paris Weekend Part 1</div>
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Our Paris adventure began the night of July 4<sup>th</sup>
at 11:15 as we set out by charter bus (or coach).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were 38 total British Studies Program
(BSP) students on the trip, and 5 from my specific library science class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We rode a bus from London to the port city of
Dover which took approximately 1.5-2 hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The first part of the trip was pretty typically filled with excited
chatter, music, and sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once we
arrived in Dover, we passed our passports forward for inspection and waited a
few minutes to load onto the ferry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had to get off of the bus once on the ferry and head up to the lounge for the
2ish hour ferry ride (that was FREEZING!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>During this time, we attempted to sleep in chairs and on sofas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, we reached Calais and reboarded the
bus for the remainder of our bus trip to Paris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This final leg was the longest and lasted another few hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We arrived at our hostel in Paris Friday
morning around 8am not-so-bright-eyed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The hostel was St. Christopher’s Inns and it was located on the canal in
the northeast part of the city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
quickly dropped off our bags in a storage area, brushed our teeth, changed our
shirts, ate the breakfast provided by St. Christopher’s, and headed to the atm
and to a local bakery for my first taste of authentic French pastries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the bakery, I ordered a pain au chocolat
(basically, bread with chocolate)—absolutely delicious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Once we had all reconvened back at the hostel, we left for a
walking tour of the area to get our bearings and learn a little about the
city.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw the canal, the
Metropolitain (Paris’s subway system), and headed to Place Monge, which was our
first stop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Paris metro system is
similar to Rome’s—crowded, confusing, and not as clean as London’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gets you where you need to go, and it’s
easy to use in the sense that one ticket is one ride no matter how many stops
you need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, there is no sense of
personal space at all! On the other hand, you sometimes get surprised with an
impromptu trumpet concert on your morning commute!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Right around the corner from Place Monge, in the middle of
the city, there is an ancient Roman ruin that was discovered<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in the 1800s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The area is called Arenes de Lutece and this particular day a group of
boys was enjoying a soccer game.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat
and watched for a few minutes while Dr. Mackaman told us a little more about
the history of Paris and about our plans for the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I enjoyed the juxtaposition of sitting in
such an ancient place watching kids do something so normal as play soccer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also really wanted to go join the game!<br />
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We continued our walking tour by wandering through an alley
that held a few plaques commemorating different parts of Parisian and French
history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked about World War II
and the Nazi occupation of Paris, Ernest Hemingway’s time in Paris, Rene
Descartes theories about existence, and how all of that connected to us as
students.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As lunchtime approached, we headed toward <a href="http://www.notredamedeparis.fr/-English-" target="_blank">Notre Dame</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were released to get lunch on our way with
instructions to meet at the cathedral later in the afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our group found a little hole-in-the-wall
restaurant that served paninis, falafels, and crepes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ordered a crepe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do not speak French, and I only recognize a
few words (5 years of Latin can only help me so much in France!!) so I ordered
my crepe with fromage (cheese) and jambone (ham).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was absolutely divine!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was without question, the best thing I
ate in France.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ate our crepes as we
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Notre Dame was beautiful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The alcoves around the edges that contain statues and paintings are
stunning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish that it hadn’t been so
crowded when I had been there, but I realize that it was a Friday
afternoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have signs everywhere
telling visitors to be silent, but people still talked at a normal tone of
voice (not even whispering).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They had
announcements over loud-speakers telling visitors to be silent and respect
those who were there for worship and prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because of this, I felt bad for those who weren’t there for tourism and
who were there to worship.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I definitely
enjoyed seeing the statues of the saints, especially Joan of Arc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cathedral is celebrating their 850<sup>th</sup>
anniversary this year, so they have displays about that around, as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Following the visit to Notre Dame, we were off to the <a href="http://www.louvre.fr/en" target="_blank">Louvre</a>
on a mission to see the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those two were our “must-sees”, and anything
else would be a bonus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We missed the
Mona Lisa’s room the first time, and ended up in the wrong place so we had to
back track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finally, we found her,
though; so we checked one item off of our list!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On our way to see the enigmatic Mona, we also got to see other Leonardo
da Vinci paintings, an Athena statue, and many other paintings by Italian
artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After Mona Lisa, we headed
downstairs in search of Venus de Milo.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She was much easier to find and smaller than I had imagined, and on the way we saw a few other Greek
pieces, too such as a piece of the Parthenon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because we still had time after seeing our two main items, we headed off
into the Egyptian area, where we saw the Colossal Statue of Ramesses II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We even saw part of the Medieval
exhibit, which felt like the dungeon of a castle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pyramid at the Louvre Museum</td></tr>
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At this point, our small group split and three of us headed
out of the Louvre to go shopping and get gelato, while the other two stayed
behind to see more of the museum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ahh,
the gelato was delicious!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After walking
with our gelato for a little bit, we found a window sill to sit in and rest for
a while before dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We sat, talked,
and watched a little part of the city go by.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Dinner was a large group affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The entire BSP group met at a restaurant to
eat in the basement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had ordered our
meal earlier in the day, and we were supposed to go on a boat trip on the Seine
afterwards to see the sights of Paris by night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Dinner for me consisted of cheese croquets, duck confit with French
fries, and apple crumble.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was tasty,
but it just couldn’t compete with that ham and cheese crepe from lunch and the
gelato from earlier!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, we
didn’t make it to the boat dock in time to take our boat trip that night, so we
made arrangements to go the next night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we walked back across Pont Neuf (the New Bridge—which is actually the
oldest bridge in Paris),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we saw the
Eiffel Tower all lit up and sparkly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Back at the hostel, exhausted and ready for bed, we went to
check in and they told me I would have to go on a scavenger hunt for beds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up heading to 3 rooms that night
before I found the one I would actually sleep in at almost 2am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(If you want the extended version of this
story, you’ll have to ask in person.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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Part 2 includes the rest of the weekend.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-22111615240700256762013-07-08T16:55:00.000-07:002013-07-08T16:55:17.091-07:00Independence Day in the British Library<u>Day 7:</u><br />
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Independence Day started off like any normal American holiday when you're in London...at Platform 9 3/4! We headed to King's Cross station early to make sure we had time to take photos and visit the Harry Potter shop there at the station. We took our own pictures, visited the shop, and then waited for the shop's professional photographer to take a group shot with props.<br />
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Once we had finished our photo-ops, we set off for the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/" target="_blank">British Library</a>, which is located nearby. The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is a copyright library. This means that it automatically receives a copy of all publications (books, newspapers, magazines, etc.) from the UK and Ireland. In addition, their collection covers all languages and items from around the world. As of right now, they have more than 21 million items, and if you were to use 5 items per day it would take you 80,000 years to get through it all. They add enough material each month to require an additional 1km of shelving. <br />
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The library is relatively young--only 40 years old, and it has only been at its current location since 1997. Much of the library's collection came from the British Museum, which is why the library's collection is so much older than the library itself. They maintain an extensive electronic collection, especially of material that is out of copyright. The copyright laws in Britain allow copyright to remain intact for 70 years after an author's death. After that time, the material is part of public domain. <br />
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Fun facts about the British Library:<br />
~More of the library is underground than above ground.<br />
~They have 11 reading rooms available to users.<br />
~ Most of their users (approximately 65%) are there for academic purposes--either students or teachers.<br />
~There are 4 "Founding Fathers" whose busts are on the wall: Sir Rob Cotton, Sir Joseph Banks, Thomas Greenville, and Sir Hans Sloane.<br />
~Sir Hans Sloane was reputed to have invented milk chocolate.<br />
~Christian Bale and Johnny Depp have reading cards and use the library.<br />
~The busiest time for the library is near Easter. <br />
~No writing utensils except pencils are allowed near the materials.<br />
~5,000-6,000 items are delivered each day via the 3km of conveyor belts that comprise the Mechanical Book Handling System (MBHS). <br />
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In the center of the library is the King's Library tower. It is King George III's private library. It contains 85,000 volumes dating from 1460s to 1820, which would have been contemporary times for him. The books are classical literature, books about languages, contemporary literature, etc. George III was an avid book collector, and when he died his son George IV did not want his father's library. George IV decided to donate the entire collection to the British Museum with three conditions: 1) It needed to stay on permanent display. 2) It must be displayed separately from the rest of the collection. 3) It must be available for anyone to use. The British Museum agreed to these conditions and followed them, and the British Library has continued to abide by these requirements. The tower consists of six floors of books. "Founder" Thomas Greenville's library is housed inside the King's Library. Readers can check out books from King George's library and use them in the rare books room.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The King's Library Entrance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Six floors of rare books available for use</td></tr>
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After seeing the King's Library, we relaxed on the rooftop terrace for a few minutes. This area is available for staff and readers who want a quiet place to read or study. It is not heavily publicized and the entrance is not widely advertised, so not every user knows about it. It was lovely to be able to sit in such a nice, well-maintained greenspace so far above the city. I could imagine that studying out there would be extremely relaxing and useful.<br />
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Next, we went to see the Klencke Atlas, which is the second largest known atlas and was once used as a coffee table or end table by Charles II. If you look closely at the picture of the enormous atlas, you may be able to see the ring that comes from Charles's cup or mug.<br />
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Our final stop before Nigel, our guide, dropped us off in the "Treasure Room" was Scholar's Leap, which is a pedestal standing area on the top of the elevator. It offers a beautiful view of the cafe' and the King's Library.<br />
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My trip to the Treasure Room after our tour gave me chills on multiple occasions. I walked in and saw a case containing a First Folio by William Shakespeare, and then I turned to see a copy of Beowulf that had been charred on its edges in a fire. I also was able to see Jane Austen's writing desk, handwritten Beatles lyrics, illuminated manuscripts, letters from Winston Churchill, original musical scores from Beethoven, the Gutenberg Bible, the Magna Carta, and many more things. <br />
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Answer (to quote our guide): Men took oxen over a ford in a river...Oxen Ford...Ox Ford. It's really just that simple.<br />
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Today we headed by train to Oxford to visit the <a href="http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley" target="_blank">Bodleian Libraries</a> at Oxford University. Oxford University is made up of many different colleges, and we visited two of them. We began our tour of Oxford at the Divinity School, which is over 500 years old. The one room took over 60 years to build, which isn't surprising when you see the details that went into the carvings in the ceilings and around the windows. The ceiling was originally planned to be cathedral height, but it was later changed because they decided to put a library above it. The room is made of sandstone that was quarried in Heddington, which is in Oxford. <br />
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The Divinity School has a few interesting stories. Former US President Bill Clinton was honored at Oxford with an honorary degree and used the Divinity School as a holding room for himself, Hillary, and his mother before going through what is known as "Wren's Door" (because it was added in the 17th century by architect Christopher Wren) to the Sheldonian Building next door to receive his degree. Clinton had originally wanted to walk through the streets of Oxford, but the Secret Service wouldn't allow him to do so. Nelson Mandela also used the Divinity School when his honorary degree was conferred. He processed through the Divinity School into the Convocation House for the official ceremony. Another use for the room that was of particular interest for librarians and Harry Potter fans was as the setting of the infirmary in the Harry Potter movies and as the setting for some of the dance scenes in <i>Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire</i>.<br />
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The room has two lecterns or pulpits on either side, where students stood to present their disputations. All students stood for lectures and wore their gowns for class. The presenters would argue their cases and answer questions and arguments from anyone who attended, whether professors, other students, or the public. Once written examinations began in the 19th century, the oral presentation form of examination became less and less common.<br />
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The Bodleian Library is renowned because it is nearly 700 years old, which makes it the oldest in the western world, and contains 11 million printed items and treasures. The collection includes everything from the Opie collection for children to 67 of the 100 known Hebrew incunables (books that date before 1501), trashy novels, a Shakespeare First Folio (they had to bid against the Folger Library in Washington DC to get it back after giving away an old copy when getting a newer copy), <i>Playboy</i> magazine, and chained books.<br />
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In 1439, Duke Humphrey of Gloucester loved the idea of a library so much that he donated his collection of about 200 books so that he could share them with other readers. The library is now named after him. The library didn't have any artificial lighting or heating until 1927, when electricity was invented. Students stood at lecterns near the windows to use the books. In 1598, Thomas Bodley restored the library and removed the lecterns and installed shelves. (The Duke of Humphrey Library was also the library in the Harry Potter movies!)<br />
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The library had "privileged readers" who had special areas with access to alcoves with screen doors. Some privileged readers included King Charles I and King James I (from the King James Bible fame). The rest of the users of the library sat near the shelves to use the materials, because they still had to make use of the natural lighting.<br />
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The Bodleian Librarian was the person in charge of the library. He (or she) was not necessarily a trained librarian, and in fact often held the position because of nepotism and not skill or talent. The person held the position for life. The duties were to sit in an ornate chair at one end of the library near a window, decide when there was too little light to read, and walk to the end of the library at that point to ring a bell in order to alert the rest of the library's patrons.<br />
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The gallery style of the library also was the beginnings of what we now know of as the "check-out" system. Before this time, libraries chained the books to the shelves, and the Bodleian was no different. The spines of books faced in and the pages faced out, so it was difficult to see which book was which. They decided to number each book and put a list on the end of the row of shelves. This formed what is essentially the first catalog in approximately 1605. In 1610, they had a gallery section, so readers would go up and choose the book they wanted. On their way down the stairs, the library workers would be able to see which book the readers had. Voila! The check-out system is born. During this same time, Bodley asked publishers for a copy of every book they printed, which is still in effect today. <br />
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After leaving the Divinity School, we headed to the Radcliffe Camera, which used to be an open-air study room, and is now a collection of reading rooms. Below the Camera is where the library's storage area is located.<br />
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After lunch, we met at Christ Church College to tour and hear about Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Christ Church College is the largest of Oxford's 38 colleges. We walked through the gardens to start with and saw the oldest botanical garden in Britain (1621) which still has the first Oriental Plain tree planted in England over 400 years ago by a professor at Christ Church College. It has a girth of 19 feet and is still growing.</div>
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One of the most famous professors from Christ Church College was mathematician, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1850). He is more commonly known as Lewis Carroll, author of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i>, <i>Jabberwocky</i>, and <i>Through the Looking Glass</i>.<br />
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The dean during Dodgson's tenure at Christ Church College had a young daughter named, Alice, who was the inspiration for the character of the same name. Dodgson would sit in his study and watch Alice playing in the garden with her cat Dinah, who was famous for climbing a nearby tree.<br />
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Dodgson's memories of Alice's cat Dinah climbing the tree and the servants having to climb up to get her down out of the tree became the inspiration for the stories of the Cheshire Cat.<br />
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Another story the guide told us was about the incarnation of the Mad Hatter. Dodgson wanted some furniture reupholstered, so he headed into Oxford to inquire about this. He found a shop with an old man wearing a top hat with receipts and invoices tucked into and attached to the ribbon. Years later the illustrator for the books needed an image for the Mad Hatter, and Dodgson sketched this man from memory.<br />
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The Cathedral Garden where Alice played had a door to another area that was off-limits to her. This door became the "magical door" from the stories. <br />
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The white rabbit was based on Alice's own father, who was notoriously late to dinner, meetings, church, etc.. He would rush in, holding his pocket watch and apologizing profusely. The dodo bird in the stories represents Dodgson himself.<br />
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The dining hall at Christ Church College was used in Harry Potter films as the Hogwarts dining hall. It has portraits of deans lining the walls, stained glass windows with crests of the schools, and fireplaces. One stained glass window is known as the "Alice Window" because it has the characters from Alice represented in the window.<br />
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We started the day at the Barbican, a public library in the <a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/?gclid=COrS-_2GlrgCFa7JtAodgyIA8g" target="_blank">Barbican Centre</a> in London. The Barbican librarians greeted us outside to give us a little background information about the library and what we would see today. The library began on Cannon Street and moved to its current location in 1982. The Barbican area was bombed flat during World War II and rebuilt afterwards. It was originally social housing (lower-income), but it is mostly higher-income housing how. The Barbican Center includes theaters, cinemas, culture and heritage centers, the library, concerts, etc. Nearby, there are churches (including St. Giles Church where Milton is buried and Shakespeare was a congregant), schools, and housing.<br />
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The two main groups that make up the constituency of the Barbican Library are people who live in London and people who work in London. The residents generally come into the library on the weekend, while the workers generally come in between 12 and 2 during the week. Because the Barbican serves so many workers, the demographics of their average patron is not the same as most public libraries. Instead, they serve more men than women, and their average age range is between 25 and 45 instead of much older or much younger. Self-service opportunities are important for busy working adults, so they offer self-checkout, self-return, online access for renewal and for use of many of the resources, and they have strict guidelines about computer usage within the library. In fact, 14-15% of materials checked out are self-issues.<br />
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They use RFID technology to keep track of their books and other materials. Because they were an early-adopter of the technology, much of it is outdated now. However, it is useful and still in working order. Each item has a date label and a bar code. They have materials that date back to 1738 that can still be checked out to patrons. In addition to the two layers of rolling stacks (which is their method of storing their items that are not available for display, but are still usable), they offer online catalog resources such as ebooks, audio ebooks, Ancestry website access in the library, and music or art websites. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Some of the rare books on display that are available for check-out.</td></tr>
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In order to reach all patrons, the Barbican Library partners with an adult education program to offer ESL classes a few times each week and maintains a Skills for Life collection available for check-out and patron use. Additionally, they offer books on CD and large-print versions of many books. These are mainly used by a population of homebound individuals who are visited by library staff on a regular basis. The library offers a variety of reading groups, including staff-led reading groups and patron-led groups that are simply monitored or facilitated by staff members. <br />
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The library has a specific Arts Library which includes DVDs and a small number of bluray discs. The feature films and television shows are available to rent, but the instructional DVDs are available to borrow for free.<br />
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The award-winning Music Library is in a separate section, as well. The exhibit leading to the Music Library was particularly interesting to me, but I wasn't allowed to take pictures of it. It was called "Trees and Their Music" by Caroline Tate. The artist had incorporated pieces of music into her paintings of various trees, whether by using the music as aural inspiration or as part of the painting itself. Some of the pieces had pieces of sheet music embedded into the painting of the tree. They were beautiful! The library partners with nearby music schools because it is one of the two largest music schools in London (the other is Westminster). The two share books and other printed music, but not CDs. Westminster focuses on the older music, while Barbican focuses on more contemporary, modern music, CDs, scores of musical theater, and popular music. Their CD collection is extensive at at least 15,000 CDss and covers a wide spectrum of musical genres. They have also begun offering a music streaming service that is available from their website and offers access to the equivalent of 70,000 CDs. This service is one of the most-used electronic resources that the City of London Library Services subscribes to. One unique aspect of the music library is the digital piano available for patrons to use to test out music or to practice.<br />
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The Barbican's children's section is one of the largest children's libraries in the city. They have at least 24,000 items (including books, ebooks, audiobooks on CD, playaways, etc.) available to children from birth to age 14. Schools and nurseries use the library's services by either bringing students to the library or by bringing the librarians to the schools on a regular basis.<br />
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Librarians also offer reading groups that are divided by age, Book Start programs (in which parents get a pack that includes a book), storytimes three times each week, Saturday events with crafts or guest visitors, and Summer Reading Challenge (a national program that challenges kids to read at least six books in order to receive a prize). They also participate in the Read to Succeed volunteer program, which partners kids with adults to help improve the reading skills of the child and allows the adult to help encourage the child to read more.<br />
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The Young Adult section is located just outside of the Children's Section and is quite small. This picture encompasses about a third of it:<br />
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From the Barbican Library, we headed to a visit with a former BSP student before we continued on to <a href="http://www.stpauls.co.uk/" target="_blank">St. Paul's Cathedral</a> to visit their <a href="http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Cathedral-History/The-Collections/The-Library" target="_blank">library</a> and collections. Unless you have been to a major cathedral before, you cannot fully grasp the feeling of walking into one. I went to St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City when I was 14, so I thought I was prepared for heading into St. Paul's Cathedral. I wasn't. The main area of the cathedral is amazing, breathtaking, stunning, and monumental. Yes. However, we were able to go into the gallery area and the library, and we saw things that most people don't even realize exist in that same building. THAT was amazing, breathtaking, stunning, and monumental! To begin this journey, we ascended 141 steps to the triforium level (this comes from the Latin for three arches). We exited the stairway through a door into the gallery area between the outer and inner walls. The dome space was just to the west of us, and we could see William Blake Richmond's tessurae mosaics on the ceiling. We quickly learned that renowned English architect Christopher Wren had designed the building, and that there had been four or five cathedrals on this same site over the centuries. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Exterior of St. Paul's Cathedral</b> (Photo Credit: http://www.stpauls.co.uk/Cathedral-History/Explore-the-Cathedral/Exterior-and-Churchyard)</td></tr>
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One of the first pieces in the gallery was an instructional tool used to teach kids about architecture and design. There is an arch that has been created using the inverted chain method to make it stable and safe. Robert Hooke, Christopher Wren's assistant and a scientist of his own right, figured out how to use this method to create the curved arches found in the cathedral. This particular part of the exhibit reminds us that cathedrals are not always only about religious education, but they are often about science, mathematics, architecture, history, culture, and literature as well.<br />
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As we made our way through the gallery space, we saw a Latin inscription above a door. "Faciendi plures libros nullus est finis." This translates to "Of making many books, there is no end." It is a quotation from Eccelesiastes 12:12 (which continues, "and much study wearies the body.") that had been added recently in the terms of the age of the cathedral. <br />
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Christopher Wren's design of the cathedral is similar to the design of Thomas Jefferson's home, Monticello in Charlottesville, VA, and to the design of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. The model of the cathedral allows visitors to see the entire building at once and admire the architecture. Surrounding the model, the drawings of the various plans that Wren and the church leaders decided against show other design styles considered. The model looks small in this picture, but it is actually a 1:25 scale model of the actual proposed building. The model does not represent the final design of the cathedral, because Wren changed his mind after completing the model. <br />
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The final place our guide showed our group was the library, itself. The library is small, and has numbered shelves surrounding a center area. We were not allowed to roam around or browse, but we could see quite a bit from where we stood. The "yummy book smell" (or leather disintegrating) overpowered us as soon as we entered what felt like hallowed space. He showed us a volume of St. Paul's epistles from 1515. It had been rebound and was missing the clasps. It was leather-bound and had bore-holes from an insect trying to reach the wood inside. The leather cover had portcullises impressed into it. As he showed us the book, he told us that it cost approximately 300 GBP to reback a book (300 GBP = $452). He also shared that the Victorians often rebound books, and that any books in this library that had a white stripe had been rebound during Victorian times. <br />
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The original cathedral and library burned in the Great Fire of London in 1616, so the church had to beg for donations to restock their library shelves. The Bishop of London donated 2,000 books. Because the library lost its collection in the fire, the current collection is mostly 17th century materials, with some 16th century items, and 9 incunables (books that date from 1501 and before). They have a psalter on display that may be (no one knows for sure) one of only three books that escaped destruction in the Great Fire of London. A psalter is listed, but there is no way of knowing whether this particular psalter is the same one. Once we had finished looking at the delightful collection in the library, we trekked back down 141 steps to the cathedral floor. I will never look at churches like St. Paul's Cathedral the same way again.<br />
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After our library visits had been completed for the day, a few of us decided to head to Kensington Gardens near Hyde Park to visit the Peter Pan statue that resides there. After a few wrong turns and a walk through very posh streets past the Embassies of Oman and Bulgaria (both are very fancy, by the way!), we found Kensington Gardens. However, we had inadvertently found the opposite side of the park, so we began our walk through the park to see what other things we could find. We passed a very ornate monument to King Albert, walked past the bench Johnny Depp sat on in the movie <i>Finding Neverland</i>, and passed the Italian Gardens. </div>
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Finally, we located Peter, and there may or may not have been squealing. The statue is fenced in, and we didn't enter the gates until two little girls broke the ice and just walked right in! Then we decided that we needed our pictures taken with Peter and Tinkerbell, too! <br />
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On our walk back to the bus stop, we saw some wildlife and a few interesting sights:<br />
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Today we went to Greenwich, which is where the <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/researchers/collections/" target="_blank">Royal Museums of Greenwich</a> are located. The museums include the National Maritime Museum, the Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen's House. Additionally, the Caird Library is part of the museum, and we visited the library and spoke with two of the people who work there. We then had time to spend in Greenwich at the other parts of the museum or in the town. Of course, we also saw the Prime Meridian and spent some time standing in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres! Once we returned home from Greenwich, we had a welcome celebration at the King's College Chapel complete with a reception that followed.<br />
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At the National Maritime Museum, we saw the museum and the Caird
Library. The librarians at Caird Library were kind enough to explain
not only how the library worked as far as setting up the catalog using
the Universal Decimal Classification system, which is similar to the Dewey Decimal system except it also uses symbols and punctuation in its call numbers. The library is a special collection focusing on maritime subjects and has been compiled from a variety of sources including Sir James Caird, the library's benefactor and namesake. Items include things such as journals, crew lists for passenger ships or navy vessels, letters, newspapers, online resources, Lloyd's List, Captain's Registers, maps, ship's plans, etc. Patrons can use items one at a time for a total of three items per hour or access some digitized material via the library's website.<br />
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The library's archives are arranged by size to make conservation easier. Like-sized items are placed on the large movable shelving units. Then, within the size constraints, the items are arranged by sections. Public records such as dockyard records and personal papers from naval officers like Lord Horatio Nelson are placed together. The library also has collections based on each collector's individual interests, whether it was pirates, maps, signal books, etc. Single items that have been donated and that do not fit into another category have their own section in the archives, as well. Our guide showed us an example of one of these single items that had been donated. It was a green, leather-bound book of hand-drawn maps. The maps were colorful, beautiful, and quite inaccurate, because it was created when people had little knowledge of the world.<br />
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Following our tour of the library itself, our guide showed us some of the pieces in the Caird Library's collection. This part was absolutely amazing!! He showed us a book about pirates, highwaymen, murderers, etc. that consisted of 26 pictures, called <i>Prints of 26 Malefactors</i>. One of the pirates pictured was Blackbeard, or Edward Teach. Our guide shared a story about Blackbeard putting fuses in his beard to make it emit smoke in an effort to be more intimidating and fierce. He was eventually captured by the British Royal Navy. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Cover of <i>Prints of 26 Malefactors</i></td></tr>
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We also were able to learn about the Spanish Armada, and a British spy named William Littleton. He went to Spain and reported back to Queen Elizabeth I. He was able to send information about the number of men they had available and port locations. He kept records in a book, and the library has this book in their collection. His handwriting is small, and he kept the information in charts. <br />
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The final set of materials we viewed from the library's special collections came from a collection about Lord Horatio Nelson. Nelson's collection included letters and journals from other seamen, such as Edward Mangen. Mangen was a surgeon who joined the navy during the Napoleonic wars at a later age than most enlisted men. He was only in the navy for approximately nine months, because he could not handle being at sea and the activities of the other seamen. He kept a journal that included detailed, colorful pictures in addition to his written accounts of his daily life and that of his colleagues. He eventually resigned and returned to being a chaplain at home. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The many papers we were able to see spread across the table.</td></tr>
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Also in the Nelson collection, was a boatswain's whistle. It has initials inscribed on it, but no one knows who it originally belonged to. If you notice, on the sides on the box in which the whistle is stored, there are two white ribbons. These are used to make it easier to pull out of the main archival display storage box. (If you look closely, you can also see my reflection in the clear box, too. Oops!) By looking at the second picture, you can see that each piece has its particular place and the ribbons help the user remove the item without damaging it. <br />
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The Caird Library guides were very helpful and informative. It was interesting to see how a special collection worked and to visit their storage area. To be allowed to handle such old material was amazing, and I learned a lot about maritime history and conservation in general that I had never known. <br />
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After the museum, we raced up the hill to see the ball on top of the Royal Observatory drop exactly at 1:00pm. We made it just in time to see the red ball's rapid descent and then make the extremely rigorous climb to the observatory to visit the Prime Meridian and Harrison's Clocks. Here are the pictures from outside the Naval College, the Royal Observatory and the Prime Meridian, where I did stand in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres simultaneously! </div>
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I didn't tour the Cutty Sark, but I did get to see it as we were walking by. Go to the <a href="http://www.rmg.co.uk/cuttysark/history-and-collections/" target="_blank">Royal Museums Greenwich website</a> about the Cutty Sark and find out more information.<br />
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We also walked around the <a href="http://www.ornc.org/" target="_blank">Old Royal Naval College</a>, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren. The Naval College used to be the site of a home belonging to Henry VIII and his daughters.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-69853798435819793952013-06-30T15:55:00.002-07:002013-07-03T12:03:38.618-07:00Strangely Warmed, as John Wesley once said<u>Day 3:</u><br />
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This morning was my LondonAlive walk to John Wesley's church. We left King's College at 10:15 with plenty of time to catch the tube and walk the few blocks to the church. However, luck was not in our favor. Through no fault of our own, we didn't make it to the church in time for the service. We did have a lovely, though unplanned, tour of the surrounding neighborhood while we followed the iPhone's little blue dot that led us in the wrong direction. We saw St. Luke's Episcopal School and a few shops before we made it to our original destination.<br />
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Because we missed the beginning of the service, we looked around the courtyard of the church and saw the statues memorializing John Wesley and his mother Suzannah Wesley before heading across the street to the Bunhill Fields Burial Ground. John Wesley was the father of Methodism, which is particularly meaningful for me as a member of the United Methodist Church. <br />
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I enjoyed wandering around the gardens in the back to see where John Wesley's grave is. I kept thinking about how moving it was for me to be here as a visitor and imagining how it would feel to worship here every Sunday. The church was packed, and while many of the worshipers were probably visitors I'm sure most were members.<br />
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Bunhill Fields Burial Ground was an extremely peaceful and relaxing place to spend a half-hour or so. We saw tombstones with a few recognizable names, people walking their dogs, and pigeons resting between flights. <br />
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Once the service at the church ended, we returned to see the sanctuary and chapel. The inside of the sanctuary has a main floor with three sections and marble columns and a balcony above it. The pipes from the organ are visible on the back wall of the balcony.<br />
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We were also able to see the original chapel, complete with the organ that belonged to John Wesley's brother Charles. Charles Wesley is responsible for writing the words to many hymns that are familiar to churchgoers (including <i>Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!</i>). The chapel is small, but is still used for prayer today.<br />
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The church has a museum in the crypt beneath the main building. They have done an amazing job putting together artifacts, paintings, writings, journals, letters, etc. that educate about the beginnings of the Methodist religion, John Wesley's life and work, and the history of the church. It is interactive, well-organized, and informative. They have even included the layout for future exhibits on the walls so that patrons can see what is planned next. I was really excited and surprised to see a pendant from the Headquarters of World Methodism at Lake Junaluska, NC, because I have attended church camp there for a few summers. I'm not sure the group near me was nearly as excited about my connection to Junaluska as I was, though!! </div>
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A little further along, we saw a pew from the original chapel in an alcove across from this quote on the wall from John Wesley. I know the picture is not the greatest quality, and I apologize, but the lighting was difficult. The display invited patrons to sit on the bench and reflect on this quote and their own spirituality. I took advantage of this opportunity to thank God for blessing me as He has done and for taking care of me and my loved ones up to this point. This quote reminds me of why I love my faith. I know that I have little in common with a preacher who lived in the 1700s, and I know that I can never compare the strength of my faith to that of John Wesley; but we share a belief in the same God. That is amazing.<br />
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Following the museum visit, we toured John Wesley's house, which is also on the grounds with the church. We were not allowed to take pictures inside the house, but we saw many interesting relics from Wesley's life. Most interesting to me was his library of books and his study chair, both found in his study. The study chair was leather and had two arms and a shelf-like area on the back of it. However, the user would sit facing what appears to be the back, lean his arms on the padded arms of the chair, and use the shelf-like protrusion to prop up his books or papers. <br />
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After the marathon visit to John Wesley's church, I headed home for lunch and errands. I decided to eat al fresco since I had cheese from my trip to the specialty cheese shop yesterday. That plus a roll and a banana, and I was set! </div>
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After lunch, I ran errands and enjoyed the beautiful weather outside. Once I returned from my errands, a group of us decided to head to a pub for dinner. We ate at The Coal House, and we ended up in this tiny little room down in a hole. It even had a barred door like a jail cell! <br />
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The first day we arrived in London, we had just a few short hours to get as settled into our pretty small dorm rooms, shower (yay!), and meet our professors and classmates to go on our neighborhood walks.<br />
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This was our first look at the area around King's College, which is my home for the time being. As tired as I was, I was thrilled to get out and walk around to see what I could see. I was also really looking forward to meeting the people I will be spending my time with over the next few weeks.<br />
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Dr. Welsh, our professor, took us around the neighborhood and showed us really important things like where to do laundry, find baked goods, and eat fish and chips. She also pointed out neighborhood grocery stores and took us to the Waterloo Underground Station to purchase an Oyster card (this lets me ride the tube). After getting the necessities out of the way, she led us on quite a tour that covered the National Portrait Gallery, the Old Vic Theater, the London Eye,<br />
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Big Ben and Parliament, the Thames, Liecester Square where we saw half-price ticket booths, Trafalger Square, and more! She even was kind enough to buy our whole group pizza for dinner at one of the restaurants on the Thames. <br />
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Once we finally got back to the dorm, a few of us headed down to Sainsbury (the local grocery store) to get a few items to help us make it through the night and next morning. Without even unpacking my suitcase, I headed to bed for the first time in 27 hours.<br />
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Saturday morning, the academia began with class meetings about syllabi and course requirements. Following that, we had program orientation and then headed out on our LondonAlive walks. My LondonAlive walk was called Along the Riverfront. Again, I headed out to the Thames, but we didn't just see all of the same things as the night before, which was nice. We also saw the Millennium Bridge (which was immediately recognizable to me from Harry Potter), the Blackfriars Bridge (which I knew about from my English major days at James Madison University), the Globe Theater (which is way smaller in person that I had imagined),<br />
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along with the Swan Theater, the Tate Museum of Modern Art (which I learned used to be a power plant), the London Bridge, Tower Bridge,<br />
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the Tower of London, and Borough Market (which was an open-air market that was amazing!). We ended the walk at a specialty cheese shop, where we made friends with the cheese lady. She let us try a few cheeses and explained the differences between them to us. It was surreal to stand in the chilly, slightly damp air surrounded by wheels upon wheels of cheese! I bought a few slices of Kirkham's Lancashire and Sparkenhoe Leicester to bring home for a snack later.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00591967590039303489noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-147912535367227923.post-31067328881453006762013-06-29T14:24:00.002-07:002013-07-13T12:28:03.701-07:00Getting Here, Always an Adventure<u>Days 0-1:</u><br />
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Getting to England was an adventure in and of itself. I live in Richmond, VA, and I was flying out of Charleston, SC, which is approximately 8 hours away. That meant that I had to get to the airport in Charleston by train, plane, or automobile before I could get on the plane on 6/27 to even begin my journey. In order to save a little money, I chose the train and embarked on what should have been a 7-hour Amtrak trip (my first!) on Thursday, June 26. I was lucky enough to get randomly bumped from coach to business class where I got my very own row of seats, but that's pretty much where my luck ended! As seven hours turned into nine, I was ready to be on solid ground again. Finally, late Wednesday night, I made it to my hotel in SC.<br />
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The next day I began my tour of the airports. The Charleston airport has a lovely Dunkin' Donuts that serves wonderful bagels and cream cheese. I'm sure that many people would consider ordering a bagel at a donut shop a food crime, but it was exactly what I wanted. After breakfast, I headed to the gate and ended up meeting up with a whole crew of students who were heading to London to be part of the same study abroad program as I was. We ended up sitting near each other on the plane, sharing gum, travel advice, a few laughs, and lunch and the layover in Dallas. Ahh, Dallas...<br />
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Remember how my seven hour train trip turned into a nine hour one? Yeah, that's about how the layover in Dallas happened, too. We were supposed to leave at 4:45 and we had arrived around 2:30--the perfect amount of time to grab a bite to eat, exchange our dollars for British pounds, and run to the restroom before taking off for our overnight flight across the ocean. Except, that's not exactly how it happened. The airline kept bumping back the departure time...thirty minutes here, thirty more minutes, forty minutes, and so on. Until finally, at around 6:15 they announced that they were going to give us food vouchers. This was not good news. This meant that there was no way we were leaving at 6:40 like they had said a few minutes before that, and I happened to be taking the first bite of my delicious grilled cheese sandwich (also from Dunkin' Donuts...I'm not sure why I have an affinity for buying anything and everything EXCEPT donuts there!). So, I took my voucher and bought ice cream and bottled water!!! It was delicious :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The airline gives me a food voucher, I get Ben and Jerry's!</td></tr>
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Eventually they did put us on a plane, and it was only 4 hours after our original departure time. Once we arrived in London Friday morning, my new College of Charleston friends and I grabbed a cab, stuffed ourselves and our luggage into it, and took off for our new home at <a href="http://www.kcl.ac.uk/index.aspx" target="_blank">King's College</a>!<br />
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We had arrived! Here are some pictures from my cab ride.<br />
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