I just got an email from the program director with our full schedule (as of right now) attached to it and after looking over it several times I just can't get over how excited I am! I just thought I would share the lovely details of my trip with y'all
Saturday 7/4/09
Welsh Study Abroad begins; be in Cardiff around 12:00
Shop for Food and stuff
Sunday 7/5/09
Church at Cardiff central branch
Cardiff City walk part one
Monday 7/6/09
Train of Coryton, walk to Castle Coch
FHE
Music at Y Mochen Du
Tuesday 7/7/09
Work on class projects, etc.
Free Day
Wednesday 7/8/09
History Class
Thursday 7/9/09 *Train day 1
London, British Museum and National Museum, free time
Mid-Summer Nights Dream at Globe
Friday 7/10/09
Water taxi to the Bay
Visiti Cardiff Bay and Welsh Assembly, food festival in Plas Roald Dahl
Saturday 7/1/09
Cosmeton WIllage visit
Find Ffynnon Garw
Watch "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain"
Sunday 7/12/09
Church
Cardiff City Walk part 2
Monday 7/13/09
Uffington White horse, Uffington Iron Age hill fort, Weyland Smithy
Oxford, city specialist and Tolkein specialist
Blenheim Palace in Woodstock
FHE
Music at Y Mochen Du
Tuesay 7/14/09
Drive to Caerwent
Caerwent visit
Drive to Chepstow
Chepstow Castle
Drive to Tintern
Tintern Abbey, Welsh Gold Ice Cream
Monmouth
Goodrich Castle Exterior
Wednesday 7/15/09 *St Swithin's Day 40 days of rain or sun hang in the balance!
Drive to Winchester
Winchester Cathedral and Great Hall
Salsbury Cathedral
Old Sarum, English Heritage Building
Stonehenge evening visit
Avebury visit & Silbury Hill
Thursday 7/16/09
Raglan castle
Drive to Bleanafon
Pwll Mawr visit
Blaenafon Iron Works
Drive to Caerleon
Caerleon, National Roman Museum, Bath Museum and Ampatheater
Friday 7/17/09
Depart for TreTower
TreTower
Hay on Wye
Saturday 7/18/09
Catch up on laundry, buy food, journal and study!
Sunday 7/19/09
Church
Cardiff City walk part 3
Monday 7/20/09
History Class
FHE
Music at Y Mochen Du
Tuesday 7/21/09
History Class
Wednesday 7/22/09
History Class
Thursday 7/23/09 *Train day 2
Train to London, Museum of London
Afternoon free
Romeo and Juliet at the Globe
Friday 7/24/09
History class
Cardiff Castle
Saturday 7/25/09
Tredeger House visit
Free day
Sunday 7/26/09
Church
Cardiff City walk part 4
Monday 7/27/09
St. Fagans, Welsh National Musuem
Tinkinswood visit
Music at Y Mochen Du
Tuesday 7/28/09
Drive to Gadfild Elm
Visit Gadfield Elm, Benbow Farm, Great Malvern Hill
Stratford city walk
Shakespeare's birthplace, Anne Hathaway's cottage, Boating
As You Like it at Startford-on-Avon
Wednesday 7/29/09
Drive to Bath
Bath walk led by student/free time
Wells cathedral (Evening Song for free)
Bath Roman museum
Thursday 7/30/09
Depart for Tintagel, Cornwall, UK (3 hours)
Tintagel Castle
St. Ives
Check in at Penzance Hostel
Drive to Lanyon Quoit, Men an Tol, Bronze Age village
Overnight in Penzance
Friday 7/31/09
Drive to Marazion
St. Michael's Mount, Book with National Trust
Hurlers, Trevethney Quoit, King Donarts Stone, Dartmoor
Catheral in Exeter (Evensong)
Drive Home
Saturday 8/1/09
Rest and Wash stuff
Sunday 8/2/09
Church
Cardiff City walk part 5
Monday 8/3/09
Drive to Eisteddfod (3 hours)
Eisteddfod Meirion, Pensarn Abergele, Conwy, UK
Drive to Conwy, wall walk, small house
Stay at Conwy Hostel
Tuesday 8/4/09
Conwy Castle
Plas Mawr
Caernarfon Castle
Segontium
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogoerychwyrndrobellllantisiliogogogoch, food from market, drive to Bryn Celli Ddu
Optional drive to Beaumaris
Wednesday 8/5/09
Drive to Trefeiw Wool mill
Llanberis Slate Museum
Snowdon hike
Thusday 8/6/09
Drive to York (3 hours)
Hang in York, tour by student, Rail museum, city walk, wall walk, assembly room, Fountains Abbey, Studly Royal, Castle Howard
Evensong at Minster
Ghost walk
Friday 8/7/09 *Train day 3
Train to Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle
Museums and festival in small groups
Edingburgh eye
train to York from Edinburgh
Stay at York Hostel
Saturday 8/8/09
Drive to Cardiff
Powis Casle, National Trust, Birmingham Museum
Sunday 8/9/09
Church
Free day
Monday 8/10/09
Work on Projects
Walk to Llandaff Cathedral and Welsh book store
FHE
Music at Y Mochen Du
Tuesday 8/11/09
Work on game, projects & site visits
Wednesday 8/12/09 *Train day 4
Train to London then Cambridge
Fitzwilliam Museum, Christ's College
Thursday 8/13/09
Play class game, prep for site visits, work on projects
Friday 8/14/09
Work on projects
Saturday 8/15/09
Free day!
Sunday 8/16/09
Church
Monday 8/17/09
Work on projects
Rowing in Roath Park
FHE
Music at Y Mochen Du
Tuesday 8/18/09
Work on game, project, site visits
Wednesday 8/19/09
Work on Projects
Final
Thursday 8/20/09
Pack and Clean
Friday 8/21/09
Depart for the States!
