Teaching, Planning, & Learning...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been enveloped in the world of teaching. It has been such a great learning experience, that I feel ever so blessed. While I've been so busy teaching, learning, and planning classes, I've had very little to no time for travel, or much of anything else outside the town of Dorking and Boxhill School. As a result, I only have less than a week left here, before returning to the States on December 6th. This means that I will most likely not have time to write in this again, until after I finish all my teaching paperwork & then graduate on December 14th.

This last month the autumnal colors have been superb! So much so, that I had to take a few more shots of Dorking, Surrey (right after Halloween), and of Boxhill School. There are even a few photos of myself & of April outside the school, just to prove to our families back home that we were really here.

I did take a short trip to London 3 weekends ago, & went to visit the beautiful architecture and art history of the famous British Museum, followed by going to the over-the-top Harrod's store.

On the way to the British Museum, I spotted an AMAZING art store full of beautiful pigments, oil pastels, paints, watercolor travel sets, brushes... and so much more. I wished I could have afforded everything to my hearts content and ship them all back home to my own art studio. Some day, maybe that can happen. You never know?

The British Museum was vast and wonderful. I would definitely go back if given the chance. The whole time I was there, I kept thinking about how much Jeffrey the lover of architecture and history abound, would truly love it there. After only a week since he had gone back home, our holiday together was fresh on my mind. As you can see from some of the pictures taken, there was quite a lot to take in. I know I did not see everything because it was just too massive of a place to do it in one days time.

London Harrod's was very interesting to see all the delicatessens inside their market, deli, and chocolate shop. Their winter holiday decorations were an amazing sight. The strangeness of the large department store was the fact that they had so much merchandise that was at an insanely high price. While wondering around the many floors of departments, I saw a wine & liquor store, jewelry shop, lingerie, women's, men's, and shoes. To give you an idea of the inflated or highest of costs that were among the selections, they had a diamond and rubies encrusted watch on sale for over 500,000 pounds.

By the time we got to Harrod's my camera battery had died, so I only took a few pics with my cell phone. I will have to add those pics later. Now, onto more studies and plans to get myself back home in a few days.