Jill Russell travels to a London community church called St. Martin's in February. She will be working in the marketing department and cafe of the church. On this blog, she will talk about her experiences as a first timer in Europe. She will compare the European and American media cultures, the people, the food and try to give people a real sense of what London culture is all about.
Jill is a senior at Pacific Lutheran University, graduating in May. She is a journalism major who was born and raised in Lakewood.
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Waking up at 6am is not one of my most favorite things to do. I peeled my self out of bed, still groggy with sleep and vision hazy without my contacts. My roommate and I were forced to get up at this unGodly hour to meet out 'Britain Today' group for a trip to see Stonehenge in the middle of no where and the Roman Bath Houses in the city of Bath. We were the first ones to get to the huge tourist style coach (bus). It was a 2 hour trip to get to Stonehenge, but when we got there, the first couple of things I noticed were rolling green hills and lots of sheep. I was definitely not in London anymore..
My 64-year-old professor told us that when he was a kid, tourists used to be able to climb on the gigantic stone slabs. It seems a little crazy, like being allowed to color on the Hieroglyph-ed walls of the Pyramids. But.. that was the 50's for you. A crazy time.
Our tour guide, told us that Stonehenge still holds a lot of significance to new-age hippie cults in the area.. post-60's flower children that think that site holds some sort of mystical powers of the universe and they get upset when 'THE MAN' kicks them out of the site.
I took a stroll around the entire perimeter, watched the excavation efforts that were beginning to take place again, and got very cold.
I was very happy that I got to see such a wonderful piece of history (Stonehenge was already 2000 years old when the Roman's invaded Britain.) When I got back on the bus, thoughts about how the stones got there and why filled my head. Merlin enlisting the help of giants? Was it used for ancient Pagan worship? Was it a gathering site in Middle Earth for the 'Fellowship of the Ring'? I like to believe aliens put them there for some Terrestrial road map of the universe. Hey, to each her own..
