Monday, May 31, 2010

An interview with a veteran? I'll take that

April 15,

Another morning of class.  In BES we were reminded that we are heading to Canterbury in the morning.  A day trip I am excited about, mostly because I have read parts of The Canterbury Tales, and I want to see the Cathedral all these pilgrims are headed to.  We had Contemporary Britain and then during our break I read some and then decided to walk around the block, as it was a nice day in London.  After our seminar Carissa and I headed to the Royal Chelsea Hospital, because for BES we had small group presentations and had to interview WWII veterans.  When we first arrived we talked to some guy who was not happy with us and eventually told us to head to the museum to talk to a guy there.  We headed to the museum found someone and told him what we had to do.  He was nice and told us to go down a walkway and we would eventually run into a WWII veteran we could talk to.  We got to the walkway and found no one, we headed back towards where we came from and we ran into someone.  His name was Albert and he is originally from Scotland.  The next veteran we interviewed was Tom Phelan, and he was from Ireland.  After talking with both of them we headed back to VH.  It was quite an experience talking to them and learning more about them.  Of course, when I was talking with my dad later he brought up some good questions we should have asked.
For the past few days our room hadn't been receiving internet and it was still not working in my room so I headed down to the dining room so I could get better reception.  That was where the rest of my evening was spent.
Cheers

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