A Day Trip to Cambridge

Today API brought us to Cambridge. It was about a 45 minute train ride which was nice and quick. We started the day with a tour of the University of Cambridge. There are many colleges within the University. What  found interesting however is that the students do not take classes at the Colleges. The Colleges are strictly where you live and all classes are held in the University. There is no difference in majors that split the colleges up. You just choose which college you would rather live at and that is where you apply. This is much different than most other schools. Oxford University has a similar system. We toured Emmanuel College and Kings College. Both were beautiful. I wish we could have toured a few more because I heard that each college in Cambridge is beautiful and different.

Emmanuel College

Kings College

We walked through some of the town on our tour and part of the academic buildings. We got a real ghost story too! The pub called "The Eagle" has a haunted room upstairs. It is said that a women haunts the room after being burned in a fire. You must leave the window open other wise the ghosts gets frightened and screams. Also if the window is closed the pub will burn down. Apparently last year they had a scare. The window was closed and no one reopened it. The basement caught on fire the next day but luckily someone caught it before the Pub went up in flames. The window has now been fixed and can never be shut. It was funny because they put a ghost balloon in the window for Halloween. We also walked by this clock. Their was a cricket on the top of it that "walks" across it making it spine and keeping the clock on the right time. They even made the cricket blink. There are three others like it around England but with different animals on top.

The tour ended around 12:30. We went back to The Eagle for lunch. After that we had about 2 and a half hours to walk around the town. Caitlyn, Roxanne, and I went to the market and walked through one of the malls, and explored the town a little. We ended up loosing everyone else we were with in the market. I got fudge right before we left from a little shop that home-makes it. It is literally the best fudge I have ever had. We met back with everyone at 4:15 to catch the train home.

Over all the day wasn't bad. I wish we had gotten to see a few more colleges and some parts of the tour could have been left out because personally I didn't care to see the outside of a museum but that's okay. I am glad I went and got to see a different town in England.

Cheers,
Allie