The weekend... wow. it was a BLAST! Friday we went to Bury St Edmunds on a "tour" from the Base. It is such a beautiful, quaint little town. We loved it! sadly, we didn't make the market... its only open on Wednesday and Saturday. BUT the ruins we saw were amazing and the shopping area was really cool... supposedly that's where all the teachers and locals go to do their shopping. Then friday night at jackie's was a lot of fun... she is just a typical southern Tennessee girl. haha but super sweet and was raised in military life, so when emily asked her if she missed her family and she said no... she explained she is use to it. haha but we all couldn't imagine! Saturday was a jam packed day... me emily and merideth went to the JV/V Bball games... oh. my. gosh. i have never witnessed a more painful experience in my life. all i can say it- 8 to 2 was the HALFTIME score. i don't even know... coming from a 6A school in Oklahoma with basketball as a favorite sport, i cannot even express the sight. i found myself cringing, grimacing, and hiding my eyes. part of me wanted to leap off the bleachers, call a timeout, and begin instructing my own drills... the other part of me wanted to get up and walk out and not let my most recent basketball game be the LHS Lancers struggle to dribble. haha but they are a great group of kids... the DoDDS program just doesn't provide an avenue for students to get better because of the frequent moving. Anyways- interesting, to say the least. The dance!! well... first off- stereotypical HS dance. LOTS of awkward standing, and talking with minimal dancing. Occasional songs prompted mass amounts to flood the dance floor- but i found myself asking the question in my head "why do you choose to stand in talk in front of a BLARING stereo when you could be standing at home talking at a normal decibel level?" Oh well... so is HS i guess. but the highlight of the evening was when one of my junior boys began to sing and dance in our direction... awkward... and emily and merideth HID behind me... so i had to laugh and motion for him to go back on the floor. haha the 3 of us got a kick out of that! but it was a blast of an evening for sure!
Sundays adventure has probably been one of my favorites... we went to Cambridge for the whole day. Dannell Harrison who teaches at the HS offered to take us and spend the day with us. So our first stop was Eagle's pub... this pub was fantastic! The airmen of WWII would go to this pub and hang out after their duties were done and the ceilings have inscriptions from all of the fallen airmen, also the walls have all of the emblems/patches from different squadrons... there are pictures EVERYWHERE of old airmen and pilots so its really authentic... and then the other significance is that this pub is where Watson and Crick celebrated after they discovered DNA!! How cool... they have a plaque and the seats sectioned off... so it was really awesome. Basically just FELT smarter standing in there. Then after that we went thru the market that was open... im officially sold. If only Owasso was authentic enough to have a really quaint market... i found the neatest old book in this market. it was published in 1933 and is an account of Queen Victoria! Needless to say... i was in love. I'm trying to hold off reading it until we go to France so i can read it on a street corner cafe while people watching! Ah that will be my favorite!! after shopping/looking around we went Punting... and for those of you who don't know (i was included) 'punting' is the term used for Gondola boat rides in Italy. Where the guys in the funny outfits/hats push the boat along a shallow river bend! It was fantastic... we got to travel right through all of the colleges of Cambridge... there are five colleges, let's see if i can name them: Kings College, Trinity College, Queens College, Claires College and St. Johns... The river took us right through the 'restricted' part of the campus that people can't just openly walk on. It was gorgeous... to say the least. Our guide told us cool unique facts about different colleges and students who attended... one kid, in defiance of a grade he felt was lower than he was due, shimmied up an EXTREMELY tall steeple on the right side of the outside of the college and placed an orange traffic cone on the top. The president had to issue a scaffold be built on the right side to get it down... building the scaffold took 3 days, and on the eve of it being completed.. the boy went back up the right side, removed the cone and placed it on the left! haha they are pretty deviously clever. but its a hysterical story! That was pretty much the extent of our weekend... full of fun and adventure! This coming weekend should stay pretty chill... we are going to Warwick Castle on Saturday and hitting Cambridge again Sunday i think! Plenty of updates to come soon =)
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