the fairytale land...

Caernarfon Castle

When some girls are little, they dream of one day becoming a princess. They want to live in a wonderful castle, with a dreamy prince charming. They are innocent believing that they can do everything. They want to be singers, dancers, and famous actresses. Little children reach for the stars and never seem to grasp the concept of failure.

In my last post I shared a bit about my childhood. As a child, I always wanted to be different things. I am sure I went through a bit of a princess phase but after that it went straight to my dream of becoming an art teacher or a pediatrician, then it turned to a psychiatrist, and now becoming a teacher is my dream. I wrote about how I wanted to travel and go around the world when I was little. That dream hasn’t changed, but the circumstances have changed. Now I have traveled and I am around the world. I have seen castles, and mountains that pictures just cannot capture. I am doing things that I have always dreamed of. 

Ricky, Me, Natalie, and Nolan

Bodelwyddan Church 

I am literally living in my dream…

Wales is in fact where I always wanted to be. My own fairy tale land; complete with mountains, accents, castles, tea, and towering cathedrals. From the window in my kitchen, I can see the different buildings of Ffriddoedd Court. And if there are no clouds in the sky, I can see the different peaks of the Snowdonia Mountains. 

As I sit in my kitchen, I get offered a cup of tea at least once by each one of my flatmates. In fact they have a tea chart in the kitchen. It reads off their names, the amount of milk and the amount of sugars that each of them prefer. I am considered strange, because I enjoy flavored tea with no milk or sugar, but rather with some honey. My flatmates said that they will change me eventually. I don't think that I will ever like tea and milk, but perhaps within the next 5 months they will change me. (More on my flatmates to come in later blogs.)

The group of students that I came with have been lucky enough to have field-trips with a Welsh national, Tecwyn Van Jones. Tecwyn is the program director here in Wales. I have to say that he is the most wonderful narrator for this little fairytale of mine. Equipped with the perfect narrator voice; he has taken us all around Wales to see castles and cathedrals. Just yesterday we traveled on a bus to England to see the Chester Cathedral which was absolutely gorgeous. 

Chester Cathedral...

One of the stained glass windows in the
 Chester Cathedral...

My very own fairytale land with tea and biscuits, castles and cathedrals, and wonderful accents of new friends. 

More to come still...