The magical mystery tour is coming to take me awaaayyyy!!!!

Two more days until I leave for a tour through the magic and mystery of England. One of the classes I'm taking is even called English 419: Magic and Mystery Mystery Literature, for goodness' sake! How intriguing!  Here's just a few of places we're going and things we're doing (these are my favorite things on the itinerary!) We will be studying literature in the very locations where it was inspired! May 23:picnic in Kensington Gardens to discuss Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. May 25-26: Stonehenge and Salisbury with a look at the  countryside nature poetry of Hopkins. May 27: the town of Bath while studying Northanger Abbey, which took place in Bath! May 29- Oxford, the home of C. S. Lewis and Tolkien. We'll be discussing  The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (one of my personal favorites!) and The Hobbit! May 30- tour of the breathtaking Lake District, which inspired the nature poetry of Wordsworth. One of the most beautiful places God ever designed, if you ask me! June 6- Shakespeare's play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, at the Globe Theater!!!! June 7-10: free weekend to go wherever we please! We will also get an opportunity to explore London for a while on our own (my lovely friends and I are thinking of going on the Jack the Ripper tour!) sounds fascinating!) We are planning to go on some day trips throughout England, possibly at the White Cliffs of Dover, Cheddar Gorge, or Liverpool (home of the Beatles! seriously, one time in geography class in my freshman year of college, my professor pointed out Liverpool on a map and I squealed, "BEATLESSSS!!" before taking the time to realize how crazy I must have looked. I got a few stares. True story). Here is a preview of what the pictures of me touring in  Liverpool will  look like:

June 14- Britain at War and tour of Churchill war rooms. This time period (WW2) was the background for some of the works we are studying. June 15-16: Cardiff Castle in Wales, with a study of Edith Nesbit' s The Enchanted Castle! June 17: MY BIRTHDAY!!! That is exciting on its own, but to make it even more grand, we will tour Tintern Abbey, which inspired the MAGNIFICENT poem of the same name by Wordsworth. These are just some of the things on the itinerary! Much more magic and mystery is to come, and I will share it with you right here! Stay tuned! :)