Day 4

Today is our first day of classes! I don't have any seminars until tomorrow but I will taking the general seminar that the whole group takes today. It is called Christianity in the British Isles. We will be studying Churches today I believe in preparation for our visit to Iffley.

Here is our list of places we are going to visit while we are here:

Field Trip 1: Iffley: St. Mary's Church
Field Trip 2: Bath
Field Trip 3: Winchester
Field Trip 4: Burford and Widford
Field Trip 5: Stonehenge, Old Sarum, and Salisbury

Optional Field Trips:

1. London
2. The Kilns
3. Blenheim Palace and Bladon

I think I'm going to try and figure out the Bodleian system today. I reserved a couple of books and thought I might peruse around some of the open shelves.

We learned about the churches built before the 11th century and shortly after the 11th century. What the differences were, why they were different, and some speculation in the discussion on the symbolism of certain items in the church itself. A little hard to listen to because you can tell that some Brittan's do not care for Roman Catholics so they will either skirt around the subject if they are in a generous mood, Try to be politically correct if they are in a good mood, and luckily that is all I seem to have encountered so far.

They have a symbol on a lot of the older British churches called the green man. When we go to visit St. Mary the Virgins Church I will take a picture and show you what it looks like. I find the history fascinating though!

Feeling a little scatterbrained so I am going to transfer my schedule into my Google calendar, add the special events and field trips, then work on creating a plan of action on how I want to start working on my essays!

Finished another Business Ethics and Christianity book! Only two more to go!