Lindsay's Baggage: Canterbury Town

On Monday, my new roomies and I decided to walk into Canterbury. The walk downhill took about 35 minutes. Our "exhausting" journey into town had caused us to work up quite the appetite so we decided to eat lunch at a traditional British pub. The pub was extremely charming and had outdoor seating in the back of the restaurant with tables and chairs that overlooked a canal. Deciding that simply being in England wasn't good enough, I chose to order fish and chips and English tea.

Upon finishing a nice meal, we headed to the cathedral to explore. We spent almost an hour walking slowly and quietly around the cathedral with admiration. During our amazement, a cathedral attendant explained much of the history behind parts of the cathedral. In fact, she pointed out a relatively new portion of stained glass in the cathedral that was created in the mid 20th century. She explained that the work was done by Hungarian Jews. She advised us to look closer at the faces in the stained glass to see if something looked familiar. Apparently, Walt Disney employed the same or similar Hungarian Jews to work on the Disney characters. Suddenly, characters began to pop out of the glass at me! I saw King Triton from the Little Mermaid, and Jasmine from Aladdin, and many more familiar faces. I've attached the photos below. Take a look yourself and see what characters you can find in the Canterbury stained glass! Quite interesting!

After a long (and sometimes circular) walk uphill to our dorm, the roomies and I met another flatmate, Michelle. Michelle is from Luxembourg and is studying English and American Literature. She speaks 5 languages and is also in our Paris program. Alex decided to cook dinner Monday night and made a fantastic mushroom risotto, with salad and red wine; in which we all ate and drank happily while listening to some John Coltrane....