Cambridge

Well Friday our group from UWSP took the hour and a half drive through the crazy streets of London to Cambridge University. We had tour guides waiting for us when we got there and they took us through the medieval city. The city was like nothing I had ever seen before. The city has so much history it is unbelievable. The University was founded in 1209, meaning that the University was more than 800 years old! It was crazy gazing at all of the buildings thinking about how many people had passed here before me. Some of the famous people that studied at Cambridge were, Issac Newton (first to understand gravity)Niels Bohr (helped with the splitting of the atom)Crick and Wattson (the guys that discovered DNA)and how could I forget Charles Darwin (the guy who has a small theory on evolution) It was pretty cool to think of what discoveries had been made here and so forth. We had about a two hour tour through the city and our tour guide explained the history of the town and the University. We had about four hour to wander around the town to explore and sight see. Two of the other guys from our group thought it would be cool to go see the Colleges up close and personal. Almost all of the colleges had no visitors posted on their entrances because it is a very touristy city. Well being college age and one of us had a backpack we looked like we belong. We walked right by the porters (British security guard) and went right into the college. We walked around the buildings, which looked pretty much like small castles, and some how we ended up in their residence halls. It was a pretty cool experience, "once in a lifetime". We did this for a few of the colleges and we got kind of bored. We ended up going to a modern shopping mall and sitting around for a bit. When we left we saw a bus that said FREE, a college students favorite word, we had no idea where it was going but we decided that we needed to explore. The bus winding through the city streets out to the outskirts of town in the exact oposite direction we wanted to go. Luckily there was a smart little English boy on the bus that explained to us where to go. We ended up walking for about 15 minutes back to town in the rain but it was a learning experience. When we got back to city center we decided to check out the church service in the amazing Kings College Chapel. The atmosphere in this place saw unreal.
Kings College has a world famous men's choir that sings at every service. They were so good they ended up putting me to sleep, it had been a long day so a dark chapel with relaxing music put me right to sleep whoops. Well that was the end of the day in Cambridge. We are going to Westminster Abby tomorrow to a church service there. Tomorrow I will have attended more church in the last week than I have in the past two years. Peace.