Many brooms
Aug. 6th, 2009 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_sinistraHard to believe it's already Thursday!
Yesterday, we spent exploring the moor, mostly, after some discussion of local myths and legends. In the evening, we did some stargazing around the full moon. (More, obviously, before the moon got well-up in the sky.) We did a lot more talking about some of the stories behind the stars - obviously a favorite of mine - and I trotted out some stories from other parts of the world that we don't normally get a lot of chance to talk about in class, as we're so limited in time.
Today we had one of the big event visits of the trip (there's still one more to come...) The Falmouth Flyer quidditch team came down to play with our students, and to show them some flying tricks. Everyone seemed to have fun, even those who prefer to keep well away from a broom. The players were very patient with our students, too.
This afternoon, we flew up - by broom or carpet, depending on preference - to our second location for this week, up near enough Tintagel to make it our home base. I'm looking forward to a whole different range of flora and fauna to explore. Everyone seems pretty well tired out by this point, so there's been a lot of sitting around chatting quietly near the fire this evening.
Yesterday, we spent exploring the moor, mostly, after some discussion of local myths and legends. In the evening, we did some stargazing around the full moon. (More, obviously, before the moon got well-up in the sky.) We did a lot more talking about some of the stories behind the stars - obviously a favorite of mine - and I trotted out some stories from other parts of the world that we don't normally get a lot of chance to talk about in class, as we're so limited in time.
Today we had one of the big event visits of the trip (there's still one more to come...) The Falmouth Flyer quidditch team came down to play with our students, and to show them some flying tricks. Everyone seemed to have fun, even those who prefer to keep well away from a broom. The players were very patient with our students, too.
This afternoon, we flew up - by broom or carpet, depending on preference - to our second location for this week, up near enough Tintagel to make it our home base. I'm looking forward to a whole different range of flora and fauna to explore. Everyone seems pretty well tired out by this point, so there's been a lot of sitting around chatting quietly near the fire this evening.
