Cornwall

What a difference from Rome. We're out in the country, with hardly anything here, and it's cold and raining. Like, 50 degrees out.
We got here Monday afternoon and hopped on the bus to our costal location. Jared and my room is awesome. For once, we have a bigger room. And we have an awesome view of the beach from here. It's beautiful. We went to the pub for dinner and then we just took it easy Monday night. Jared and I discussed, in detail, our plan for our next movie (Pyramus and Thisbe). We wrote the script and started planning out our shots and specifics.
Tuesday (yesterday) morning I had a Full English Breakfast and then got ready for the day. Rachel, Amber, Jared and I wandered down the beach, just because Rachel wanted to. It was way too cold to go swimming, but we stood by the water and Rachel put her feet in. We looked to the side of the beach and saw a perilous set of steps climbing the side of the cliff. We totally did it. In the US there would be all sorts of ropes and barriers. No such thing here. If you step half of a step to the left, you fall fifty feet. It's your own fault. So we climbed to the top of the cliff where we discovered the Minack Theatre. But I'll write about that later (we saw a show there last night).
We ran into Valerie (our teacher) at the top of the cliff, and she said we should continue the cliff walk, as it was beautiful. So we did. Rachel had to turn around at one point because she needed to take her final exam, but Amber Jared and I forged on. It was absolutely gorgeous. Again, the camera situation here sucks so I haven't posted anything, but once I do there will be all sorts of pictures. We climbed on rocks, down treacherous paths, stood on top of the world, felt the fresh sea air blowing in our faces, teetered on the edge of the world, and walked pretty far along the coast. It was amazing. Words can't describe the feeling. Normally I'm afraid of heights, but only once did standing 100 feet in the air with nothing between me and falling actually bother me. I climbed out on ridiculous cliff edges, just to experience it. Overall it was a 5 mile hike from Porthcurnin to Land's End. After a mile and a quarter we came across a small shop where we bought some refreshments and she told us about some of the terrain and the path. The path went up and down hills the whole way, so there was a ridiculous amount of climbing that we did. When we got to Land's End, we saw the sign pointing at New York and browsed the souvenirs while we waited for the bus. Poor Jared couldn't find an ATM- he tried our town where we were staying, but it was only English banks. Land's End's ATM was down. He walked ten minutes down the road and the next ATM was down too. Finally, another 5 minutes down the road he found one and just barely made it back for the bus. We rode the bus back and made it in time for dinner and the show.

Today, we wanted to go to St. Michael's Mound and St. Ives. We missed the stop for St. Michael's so we went to St. Ives first. We did a little bit of shopping (grabbing a pastry and a pasty) but it was raining hard and it was freezing. We went back to St. Michael's. It's an island just off the coast of Penzance. There's a castle at the top. The cool part is that there's a road leading to it, but the road is only usable during low tide. We happened to be there at low tide so we walked across and took some pictures. We were too cold and wet to go into the castle (it cost money and we had to leave soon) so we just went back and waited for the bus. When we got back we ate a hot meal at the pub (there's something about the meals here that really heat you up from the inside- it really combats the cold and wetness). We then took hot showers/baths and changed into dry clothes. We're just relaxing for the rest of the night. Tomorrow we go back to London.

Tomorrow is (hopefully) getting all of my pictures up and maybe working on my paper that's due when I get back to the States. Friday is packing and any last-minute souvenir shopping (and maybe a show). Saturday, Suzanna is coming to hang out, because she has a layover in London, so that'll be fun. And Sunday morning (really early) is off to Romania. That means there won't be too many more posts. But like I said, I will post lots of pictures from Rome and Cornwall tomorrow, and I'll hopefully get a chance to keep it up-to-date until the very end of the trip.