Liverpool/First day of classes
Our first vacation of the trip was to Liverpool. We left last Friday and took a 2 hour bus ride to Leeds and then caught another bus that took us about 3 hours to Liverpool. We are starting to become fairly familiar with the bus systems. Once we got to Liverpool we caught a taxi to take us to our very first hostel. We were lucky, the taxi driver was very nice and told us about some places to go, he usually gives city tours. I was a little nervous about staying in a hostel, but all turned out to be okay. We got in our room. It was a tiny room with two sets of bunk-beds and a sink. It was nice for all of us to stay in the same room. Once we got there, we just relaxed. I tried to go to sleep at 9:30 but actually didn’t get to sleep until around midnight.
The next morning we got up, got ready, had breakfast, and started out on our journey through Liverpool. We started out just walking down the street to take pictures of an old church and then walked to the Anglican Cathedral, which oddly enough was designed by a Catholic. There is also a Catholic Cathedral in town, that was designed by an Anglican. Once we took pictures of the Anglican Cathedral we walked down by the water to try and find the Fab 4 Beatles store. It was very windy on this day and once we got to the water is was about 10 times worse. The nasty brown water was blowing up on us and it was so windy that we couldn’t walk in a straight line. At times I thought I was going to get blown away. To give you an idea of how chilly it was, we were walking down the sidewalk and the pigeons had their heads bent down so it looked like they had no neck because they were cold too. It was funny. We finally got to Albert’s Dock which had several shops, museums, and restaurants. We looked around and went in some shops to get souveniers and went through a few museums. We went through the Merritime museum, Seized! Mueseum, International Slavery Museum, and the Titanic Museum. We went and got some lunch at a restaurant called What’s Cookin?, it was pretty good but fairly expensive. I had the steak wrap, a side salad, and baked potatoes. I have come to realize that they put corn in/on a lot of things, things that I wouldn’t think of, like on pizza.
After we ate we decided to find our hostel. We started to think that it was strange when the taxi drivers had never heard of this hostel. We finally stopped in a hotel and they called a taxi for us. When we got there we drove up to these townhouses and there was a gate that said that the Old Dairy Hostel was in the back entrance. That kinda creeped some of us out, but we went in this back alley and walked up to this door but it was locked. So we kinda walked back and noticed some barbed wire on the fence. (This may sound really creepy, but it was kind of common is areas around here. Just around random things, the fenses will have barbed-wire on the top) We went inside and it turned out to be a very nice place. We had booked two rooms and each room had a double bed and a twin bed, a tv, stuff to make tea, a sink. I personally like it better than the first place. The rest of the day we spent relaxing and actually got to watch tv for the first time in 2 weeks, since you have to have a license here to have a television. The hostel itself was fine, but there were a group of Columbians staying there also and they were SO LOUD! They had been talking very loudly and laughing and acting like idiots for a while in the afternoon, but then at 2 in the morning they came home and did the exact same thing and woke me up. Then again, some time after that in the morning, they were loud and woke me up AGAIN! They made me so angry…I am just very happy I don’t have to deal with them anymore.
We left Liverpool on Sunday and made our way back to Hull and have no finally started classes. I had my first set of classes today. Today at 12:15 I had my Religion in Antiquity class, my professor is from Texas so I don’t have to worry about understanding his accent. The class was fine, I am hoping it gets better as the classes go on, but I only have 8 lectures left. 
Yay! I also had my first class for Environment and Development in Africa, I also think this class will go better as I have more classes once we start learning about the different groups of people. I guess time will only tell. I have my art class tomorrow afternoon and then my Africa class again on Wednesday. Class definetely made my day go by really fast today. I got up, got ready, went to my classes and by the time they were done it was 4:15. Now I have to go do some laundry and possibly eat some supper.
Hi Sweetie, glad your classes got started. I loved your pictures and blog…sounds like quite the experience. The food sounds good too…the fish and chips were really as big as Cody’s head! Was the Titanic Museum anything like the exhibit we went to in Tennessee? Sounds like another fun weekend coming up…take care and have fun…love you
Delberta Fisher
October 7, 2009