Sorry, I've been rather terrible about updating. But! I have more Milne quotes from the previous week and this week.
1 MARCH 2011
On this day we went around looking at stuff from Medieval London.
"Luckily there's a hole in the wall for us to walk through. Very thoughtful, those medieval wall builders."
In this picture, the convenient hole is unfortunately obscured by an rather inconvenient bush. Clearly modern day builders are much less thoughtful. But please believe me when I say that there is a hole in the wall. 
Another wall picture!
Our next stop was the Tower of London, which if you don't know is a rather impressive structure.
*About the Tower of London* "So we must ask ourselves, who was more chicken: the Londoners or the King?"
I'm going to go ahead and say the King. :) Treasonous as that may be.
Speaking of treasonous behavior, this is the Traitor's Gate of the Tower of London. Apparently those who went in rarely came out alive. At this point in the walk Milne said something about people going into defending oneself and only needing marbles to do so, however, I was unfortunately not able to hear the exact quote. Alas.
Our penultimate stop of the day was a very very old church. It was a church dedicated to all of the saints. Unfortunately, it was bombed during the Second World War and much of it had to be rebuilt.
Our last stop of the day was the river. We walked down to it and heard about the ports and saw Milne walk along the shore picking up random rocks until he found a piece of old tile.
8 MARCH 2011
This week's class!
"This is called Cowcross Street because it had cross cows. If you were about to be slaughter'd you'd be cross too."
The cows apparently walked down Cowscross Street to this a market that was here, where they were slaughtered and sold as shoes, meat, etc.
As we walked away we got this gem of knowledge...
"Tanning is quite a smelly industry for reasons I won't go into. But it involves urine."
We went to see quite a few old churches/monasteries. I learned that people were buried in and east to west orientation so that they were pointing towards Jerusalem because they believed that on Judgement Day the dead would rise and need to walk to Jerusalem.
The church that we went inside has been used for filming in quite a few movies and TV shows. In fact, when we visited the church people were filming some promos for the new TV show "The Borgias." The inside of the church was quite lovely but I didn't take any pictures. Oops. However, I can say that the church was the last one in "Four Weddings and A Funeral" starring Hugh Grant.
Milne: "Does anybody like Hugh Grant?"
Girl in class: "I do."
Milne: "Oh dear..."
This is the church.
Apparently, Professor Milne was hatin' on actors today. :D
"Most of you know William Wallace from Mel Gibson's overacting."
In all fairness, both probably deserve it. :P
In other news, Sameera comes tomorrow! I'm so so SO EXCITED!
Much love and cheers!
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