Catching up :)

On Saturday I went to join up with Erin, Megan, and Kathy. We decided to do the touristy Canterbury Tales Building Tour. You’re given a head set with a type of remote control that plugs into the headset. Then you go from room to room listening to different stories about each room. The Canterbury Tales is a contest to see who can tell the best story. That is what the book holds, all the stories in the game. The tour dealt with a handful of the stories such as the Knight’s Tale : A chivalrous tale of two knights in love with a fair lady; the Miller’s Tale: A deceitful clerk tries to have his way with the carpenter’s wife & gets his just desserts in this bawdy story; the Wife of Bath’s Tale: It asks the question to which every man would like an answer- “What do women most desire?” (The answer is to have their own say in matters and let their voice be heard); The Nun’s Priest’s Tale: a farmyard fable about Chauticleer the rooster who outwit’s the fox. And finally The Pardoner’s Tale: a chilling story of three men, led to their own downfall by greed.
It was interesting but every room smelled so horrible. Maybe it was supposed to make people imagine they were back in the medieval times. The displays were kind of hoaxy. They were just statues that had lights turned on them whenever they were being talked about. The tales were interesting though and I had already read the Miller’s Tale in high school, which we’re also reading in class in British Lit. as well. So that was kind of fun to do. It kind of reminded me of Pirates of the Caribbean, but without the cool puppets, just statues instead.
We all ate at Little Italy Ristorante and it was very good! Lots of opera music, including Celine Dion and Andre Bocelli. The food was very good and we all split a bottle of white wine. Still not a big fan yet of the wine. I thought that I’d like it because it was supposed to be fruity, oh well.
Later that night, we all decided to meet at The Witherspoons Pub. We had been reading the sign wrong. It's called Free House because that means that they can sell any beer that they want to. Not just English beers. :D Carol, Erin, Kathy, Shannon, Steven, Matt and I all met up and got our own table with couches. We did sit next to some pretty cute guys and talked to them a bit. I don’t think that they were students though. It was very crowded with all kinds of people. It was someone’s birthday and they had decided to dress up like super heroes! There was a Mr. Incredible :D, Wonder Woman, Batman, and Wolverine. It was pretty funny!
Sunday was a cooking day for me with Katerina. She likes to cook a lot and has a TON of cook books. I asked if her mom taught her how to cook and she said no, she just likes it and picked it up. She likes how it feels like chemistry, that you’re mixing and baking things to get the desired outcome of a good meal or tasty treat. We made the batter for the Christmas fruit cake and then cleaned my room. She was telling me tips on cooking, like letting the butter mix really well before starting anything else for the recipe. Adding one egg at a time and then allowing it to mix really well so there will be no lumps in the cake. It was fun, and the batter tasted very good!
Next we made chocolate mousse for dessert that night. It was very rich and really good! Love chocolate! :D So does Katerina as well. She loves the Fannie May candies that I brought over from the U.S.
Made a fruit salad for lunch with oranges, apples, peaches, grapes and grape fruit juice on top. Light and nice lunch.
After cleaning my room I had to run to Tesco’s before it closed at 6pm. I got some other ingredients for Katerina for dinner that night as well. We ended up having a really good cooked chicken with prunes and cashews for a stuffing. It was very yummy. Along with that was a salad which had avocados, oranges, and her own dressing, small potatoes and turnips. Then for desert we had the chocolate mousse!
After watching Frasier for a while Katerina and I headed off to bed. Kostos and Michael we doing their own things. Michael probably reading a book and Kostos either reading or on the Internet, or maybe composing some music.
Monday wasn’t too interesting. Ate lunch with Megan and Erin at Café Rouge. Talked about which trips we should go on, and if we should go to London this Saturday or maybe go to Deal, or Whitstable because it’s only 20 minutes from Canterbury. We’ll have to look into it more. See what the weather is like.
Right now there are severe rain warnings and flood warnings for certain parts of the U.K. It’s raining so hard today and will probably continue until Weds. Then pick up again on Friday. Hopefully it will be ok. A lot of people are staying inside today, and then going out to meet our whole group at the Student Union for a meet and greet. The Missouri students have arrived and we still have yet to meet them. More later! <3 Shannon