So I am in Budapest right now on spring break and there are a lot of events we have done that I haven't written about. I should probably get those out of the way before I start talking about Budapest.
I went to Blenheim Park one Sunday afternoon with everyone in the group minus Hannah, Sally, and Emma. The gardens (lawns) at Blenheim were extremely large. It is crazy to think that one person can have so much land when everyone else has basically none. The palace at Blenheim was really nice too, but we were not able to go inside. It was a nice day and the sun was shining as I remember it. At one point mark stuck his head into a bush and it was funny so I took a picture of it. Sadly I do not have access to that picture right now so this is a reminder to myself to put that picture up when I get back (or remind me in the comments if you read this and it still isn't up and it is past the 19th). There were some neat fountains behind the palace with lots of statues. There was a crazy amount of poop in the park when we were walking in the grass. I think it is because of the geese. To cap off the event Mark did a front flip down a hill and almost killed himself.
The next trip that we had was to Steventon and Chawton which are places that Jane Austen used to go to. We took everyone's favourite/hated vehicle, the playbus. Favourite because it has Playbus on the side in rainbow letters, hated because some of the seats face backwards and make your stomach feel like it is in a washing machine. Somehow my co-op group was in charge of making packed lunch again. We haven't made an actual meal yet. We headed toward Steventon, but had to go to some lady's house because it was lunch time and also because there was a funeral that morning at the Church in Steventon. We met Doug Mantz and his wife. We ate our packed lunches, and then visited the neighbour's house because it is a heritage site and looks very similar to Anne Hathaway's cottage. You can see outside by looking up his chimney, and the house has a thatched roof. We went to the Steventon church from there which is the church that Jane Austen would have gone to and her father was the Rector. From this point on the trip was super rushed because the funeral was unexpected and pushed all of our times back. We rushed from Steventon church to the cottage that Jane Austen lived in. I didn't really even get to look in all of the rooms because Doug was trying so hard to keep up with the disrupted schedule. After the house we went down to a little conference room and had a lecture given to us by Doug's wife. I think her name is Eileen, but I am not sure. The lecture was supposed to be about Jane Austen with some context of women writers, but it ended up being a lecture about women, how they were oppressed and... oh also Jane Austen wrote stuff. It was very informative, but didn't really seem to fit. After the cottage we hustled over to Jane Austen's brother's house. It was a nice place which is also a library that people can go to if they are researching female writers. After this busy day we headed back onto the Playbus and drove for another hour and a half to get back to Charlbury. Marion gave us a nice surprise because she left some cookies, tarts, and beverages on the bus after we left from the cottage Austen lived in. I guess I knew about it beforehand, but had forgotten.
Everyone was getting sick, including Beth so I feared it would hit me just in time to leave for March break, but I got lucky and avoided it. On the friday before we left we had play practice. It is coming along, but everyone still needs to memorize their lines as well as get their cues and all of that. In the future we will undoubtedly have Glenna stressed to high levels with our lack of readiness. I think we only will have a week and a half or so to write all of our papers when we get back from the break. This final month is going to be nuts.
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