first full day

still so tired. this could be due to the fact that we walked nearly ten miles today, or i could still be feeling some jet lag. either way, i am TIRED. it is currently 10.40 pm, so i should be in bed, sleeping. instead, i'm updating about my day. we woke up and had breakfast: hard toast with strawberry jelly and corn flakes, no milk. we then registered, got liverpool hope student ids, and we walked to our schools. the primary school we are working at is 1.5 miles away, aka a thirty minute walk. not something i'm looking forward to at 8 am, but i am excited to work in the schools. top-notch security in these schools. they don't take any chances. but...tomorrow morning i will wake up and walk to the primary school and begin working in a classroom there. pray for me and our group!

after we walked to our schools, we came right back and had lunch: jiggly lasagna that actually tasted pretty good. we then took a bus downtown. here, buses are like taxis-- you have to wave them down or else they'll drive right by you. we learned this the hard way; we had to wait another twenty minutes for the next bus to drive by. once downtown, we walked to see two cathedrals: the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King (Roman Catholic) and the Liverpool Cathedral (Anglican). Check out their websites to see pictures! the Liverpool Cathedral was awesome because we paid 3.5 pounds to climb to the top of the tower. From the top, we could see all of liverpool and part of the irish sea! beautiful!

we then came back and had dinner: pizza and chips (french fries). they serve chips with every lunch and dinner pretty much anywhere you go. tasty, but bad for my body. after dinner, our group walked another couple of miles to this giant grocery store called tesco. everyone got a couple of snacks and walked back. my friend lauren and i got a couple of british candy bars: turkish delight and toffee crisp. we tried the turkish delight, and i wouldn't recommend it. little did we know, turkish delight means this pretty solid form of jelly. and it was covered in milk chocolate. we only ate the outer chocolate shell. the common room in our dorm was open, so a few of us ended up sitting down there on big comfy leather couches and watched a couple of american tv shows on the big-screen television: friends and glee.

now i am off to bed. school in the morning!