It was a long short day

8-9: Get up and eat breakfast

9-10: Biology

10-11: History

11-12: British Studies

12-2:30 Dinner and break time

2:30-5: Photography

5-6: Supper

6-8: Contemporary Britain

Thursdays are very class intensive for me. All my classes are very small, which makes for great discussions. I am learning so much. The professors are excellent, very skilled in their fields and so knowledgeable. It doesn't really feel like college much here. We are more like one very large family on a really long educational holiday. We always eat with our professors and their families. And, they also live in the castle (except for our British professors which actually live in England). The program coordinator is also deeply involved with student life as well. I am sure we will all be very close by the end of the semester. 

On Monday, we received our cleaning assignments. We have to clean on Mondays and Thursdays. I am in charge of the Mail Room and its surrounding staircases. I have to sweep, mop, dust, and tidy up the area. I went a little overboard on Monday and deck scrubbed everything. It took me 2 hours. I won't do that every time. I didn't do my cleaning duty today, but I will do it tomorrow since we won't be going on our field trip to Holy Island due to the snow. 

Just thought I would show you a less glamorous side of castle life with these photos:

Stairs: There are a lot of them. 

Tunnels: Okay, they are pretty cool. 

The Mail Room

Yup, I scrub that staircase. 

Sometimes I sit up in the indented area to the left. 

The Library 

Main Classroom (we only have two)

A Spiral Staircase: Super hard and disorienting to run up and down. 

The tunnel leading to the pottery room (junk and laundry room)