Sorry for no pictures! The wifi here, or at least the wifi I've tried to use, isn't fast enough to upload pix, so I'm putting them on Facebook. Sorry to those who aren't on FB!
It was rainy/misty again today, so I was glad we didn't have an outside portion of our day. I don't think my shoes are going to dry out until I leave. Apparently this Fall is wetter than normal. The colors and berries and vegetation are wonderful though, and there's a slight cinnamon-ish smell to the foliage. Hadn't noticed it until one of my classmates pointed it out. She says it always smells like home to her.
It's been another amazing day. I feel as if I've been here two weeks, not two days, we've done so much. The most interesting activity was telling a personal story or event to a partner, and that person then told it back to you as a legend, a story that everyone already knew, starting with Once upon a time... It was a fascinating experience, to hear your story mirrored back to you with different points emphasized, people turned into characters in fairy tales, and so on. Very fun, terrifying and illuminating. When I was once-upon-a-timing my partner's story, I wanted to be sure I included most of the points he considered to be important, but change them into a form you might read in a classic fairy tale, and that was hard. It worked, though, for both of us.
Class starts at 8:30 (don't be late!), and tea is at 10. Lunch at 12:45, class at 2:30, tea around 4, and we're done at 5:00. We are different people at 5:00 than we were at 8:30. The facilitators of the course are really good, and the pace is perfect for tackling the difficult task of 1) learning a long, involved classic tale, 2) eventually interweaving that with a personal tale, and 3) telling the whole shebang in an hour with a partner. Huh. Still not sure how that's going to work!
Tomorrow, however, we get off early, and there are at least three of us who are going to check out one of the three pubs we saw last night in our trip to Forest Row. My brain needs a beer!
Apparently this weekend there is a music festival in town, and on Sunday night there's a ceili band at a bar. Their former name included the word Breton, so I'm hopeful there might be some sort of bagpipe involved!
Off to bed. It's almost 23:30 here and tomorrow's another busy day.
Hope all of you are well.
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