Survey Says...

This week, I'd like to hear your thoughts on the class and the blog. Here is the list of questions that I would like you to answer. Please be honest; your grade will have no impact on what you say.

1. How helpful has the blog been to your learning? Do you enjoy doing it, or is it just annoying?
2. What would you like to learn in class? Is there anything that you feel like you need to know? This could be literature, writing, or reading.
3. What is your favorite aspect of class, and what is your least favorite?

Bath

This week you are traveling to Bath in Somerset. The Wife of Bath is of course from Bath. Bath is a beautiful city in the southern portion of England. Take a look at a few of the pictures of the city with the below website.

http://www.terragalleria.com/europe/united-kingdom/bath/picture.uken35929.html

Make sure you notice the Sally Lunn's. My parents ate on one of these while they were in Britain.

Also, I'd like you to take a look at the Spa in Bath. Bath is known as the only place in Britain with natural spas. I remember in Korea, walking into my first spa. It is a strange feeling walking into a spa in a foreign country. I'll tell you why in the classroom.

http://www.thermaebathspa.com/index.html

Virtual Tours of Canterbury Cathedral

I thought you might enjoy taking some tours of the cathedral. Go ahead and get lost in the tours. Make sure you look at the Thomas A Becket section of the first website listed, and make sure you look around on the second website. The second website has some beautiful pictures of the cathedral.

http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/canterbury/canterbury.shtml
Go down to the bottom of this page. Look for the section that says "Pictoral Tours." Make sure you look at "the location Becket was martyred."

http://www.request.org.uk/main/churches/tours/canterbury/tour.htm
Click on the different red dots.

Make a comment after you have looked at the websites.

Mr. Lunn

Goin' on a trip

This week we are going to be looking at Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The plot is based on going on a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is a trip to a religious place. Tell about either a funny childhood trip that you have been on or about a trip you would like to go on some day.

When I turn forty, I am going to Scotland to play The Old Course. A buddy and I have been planning this trip for a year now. I can't wait. Only 8 and 1/2 years ago. We are going to golf every day while our wives go shopping or whatever they want to do. It's going to be awesome.

Stupid Fights

This week we are reading "Get Up and Bar the Door." It is a short ballad about a stupid fight that a married couple gets into. The most common argument that my wife and I get into is based on temperature. I remember driving to Indiana during the winter last year. I believe we were driving for Christmas. Well, about ten minutes into the drive my wife cranked the heat up as high as it would go. Granted she had her winter coat on, and I only wore a t-shirt. Immediately I turned it all the way down. Then she turned it all the way up and I turned it back down. This went on until we were both screaming at each other over the temperature. Stupid right, but my guess is we have all had fights like this. Tell a story about some stupid argument that you have had. Please change the names of the people involved. I'd hate for someone to be embarrassed.