The University of Essex has been very nice to organize trips for us exchange students. We had already been taken to Cambridge earlier this year and this weekend they decided to take us to Canterbury, my second choice of school had I not gotten into Essex. The town is very historical and beautiful and the main attraction is the Cathedral which was the first built in England. Kristi and I took a tour of the Cathedral as soon as we got there because we had heard so much about it and we were able to marvel at the amazing stain glass windows, probably the best I have ever seen. Canterbury had been bombed in the war, not sure which one, but the stain glass was removed and protected under ground to keep it from being destroyed. We somehow had chosen to visit Canterbury the day of their Christmas Parade which was fun to see but it being so busy and all made me appreciate my little town. We later had to meet up for a walking tour with the group which was very informative about the King's School which is a boarding school in Canterbury where the famous Canterbury Choir is from. We even got to hear the choir practicing when we were walking around the streets. In our free time after the tour we walked over to see the castle which has not been preserved and is merely a square block of stone now. The bus ride to Canterbury is only an hour and forty five minutes of so depending on traffic however on the way home there was an accident ahead of us and we were stuck dead for four hours, making the trip take six and a half hours to get home.
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