Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Invitation to Post
You may notice that you got an email invitation to post on the blog. Please do so! I'll try to put photos up in order of the trip, but don't hesitate to add your own. At this point the order doesn't matter, and we want to see your great pix--including photos and comments on your travels since the program ended. What sorts of adventures are you having? Have you made it home safely? This might be a good place to share stuff we were too busy to post while still in the middle of eveything.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Stonehenge (pix by Bess and Tiffany)
Clyde levitates. Bentley tried it too (pix to follow), but came down a little more abruptly.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
A note from the Editor
Of course, in real time we're in London, dealing with a strike on the Underground and trying to cram as much as possible into our days and nights. One can either do things or blog about them. Sore knees kept me back at the youth hostel working on photos today, but I only got as far as the Jurassic Coast hike, and obviously haven't blogged that far. We're doing OK, despite minor mishaps, and after some adjustments are enjoying our time in the city.
Salisbury Cathedral
Photo by Chris B:
Baptismal font:
Photos by Jon:
Bentley as his true self (a Jesuit or a Puritan) photo by Jon:
More Quotes from Annelise
Part the Third: In which the travelers reflect on their conditions, and on those of the universe
"I'm just so funny everyone pays me."
Lori (preserved by Heather L)
"I'm really annoyed that I'm not being quoted. I say funny things. I keep track of them."
Lori (preserved by Katie P)
"If you are using that as a baby toilet, can't you use it for something else?"
Janet, in her sleep (preserved by Heather L)
"He used to tick you off, and now he offs your tick."
Rick to Tiffany about Matt and the tick surgery
(preserved by Bess)
"Mrs. Dalloway is the only thing I've written of [Virginia Woolf's]."
Kris T (preserved by Tiffany)
"I'm just saying what I like and what I like is her... Also, I like to know where the van is. Does anyone know?"
Bentley (preserved by Tiffany)
"Why do we eat roots of things? Like carrots were never meant to see the light of day and we like misappropriated them."
Katy A (preserved by Tiff)
"I don't hate homosexuals; it's God who hates homosexuals."
Jon S. (Tiffany's disclaimer: I don't know the context of this... I just overheard that one part).
Juli: [as she falls face first on the floor] "No internet!"
Katie: "How did you get there?"
Juli: "I just pushed the door open with my body!"
Katie: "Well, why didn't you make a louder thud?"
Juli: "I don't know! I'm a little person!"
Chris B: "What if there are more spiders?"
Whitney: "In the world, or in this room?"
Chris B: "In the world."
preserved by Lauren
"You are a powerful awkward magnet--like the giant horseshoe kind."
Lori, to Julianna (preserved by Katie P.)
"I think God must be the biggest nerd in the world--I mean existence."
Tiffany (preserved by Bess)
Bentley: "You must remember that you are a person and not a student. Don't let him suck your humanity."
Annelise: "Yes. You could end up like me." [frames her face with her hands].
preserved by Katie P
"Vegetarians should not be promiscuous."
Karla (preserved by Katie P)
"She is entertained by simple objects."
Bentley's translation summary of "She is going to start the satellite operation of Ziggy's redesigned lucet business in conjunction with Ruskin lace."
(about Katy A, preserved by Bess)
Kylie: "I saw a cow pee next to me."
Emma: "I peed next to a cow."
preserved by Roxanne
"I'm workin' on my fitness! You're my witness!"
Sydney (preserved by Heather L)
"David Bowie is like salt--he just enhances everything."
Bentley (preserved by Bess)
Heather L: "Does she have a large family and a brother named Erik?"
Rachel: "No, she only has two brothers."
Lauren: "But are they large?"
Heather L: "Is that cow wearing a sweater?"
Bentley: "Except that it's a horse, but yes...One of those riding cows."
Juli: "I'm going a little overboard with this febreeze-ing."
Lauren: "Is that what you're doing instead of washing your clothes?"
Juli: "Yes. It makes me feel better because I spray them and hang them up and they're clean in the morning."
Juli [while spraying febreeze in a ziplock bag containing her shoes]: "Here's my master plan--hang them up. And maybe if I zip the bag, it will be like a washing machine."
Juli [after her febreeze-ing]: "Mmm. Smells so clean over here."
"I've got my bare necessities: water and crotch powder."
Jon S when Bess looks at the content of his cargo pockets
(preserved by Bess)
"What would Darwin do?"
Bentley (preserved by Heather L)
"We could be seeing string theory!"
Tiffany about strange oily substance in water at Boscastle
(preserved by Bess)
"I'm just so funny everyone pays me."
Lori (preserved by Heather L)
"I'm really annoyed that I'm not being quoted. I say funny things. I keep track of them."
Lori (preserved by Katie P)
"If you are using that as a baby toilet, can't you use it for something else?"
Janet, in her sleep (preserved by Heather L)
"He used to tick you off, and now he offs your tick."
Rick to Tiffany about Matt and the tick surgery
(preserved by Bess)
"Mrs. Dalloway is the only thing I've written of [Virginia Woolf's]."
Kris T (preserved by Tiffany)
"I'm just saying what I like and what I like is her... Also, I like to know where the van is. Does anyone know?"
Bentley (preserved by Tiffany)
"Why do we eat roots of things? Like carrots were never meant to see the light of day and we like misappropriated them."
Katy A (preserved by Tiff)
"I don't hate homosexuals; it's God who hates homosexuals."
Jon S. (Tiffany's disclaimer: I don't know the context of this... I just overheard that one part).
Juli: [as she falls face first on the floor] "No internet!"
Katie: "How did you get there?"
Juli: "I just pushed the door open with my body!"
Katie: "Well, why didn't you make a louder thud?"
Juli: "I don't know! I'm a little person!"
Chris B: "What if there are more spiders?"
Whitney: "In the world, or in this room?"
Chris B: "In the world."
preserved by Lauren
"You are a powerful awkward magnet--like the giant horseshoe kind."
Lori, to Julianna (preserved by Katie P.)
"I think God must be the biggest nerd in the world--I mean existence."
Tiffany (preserved by Bess)
Bentley: "You must remember that you are a person and not a student. Don't let him suck your humanity."
Annelise: "Yes. You could end up like me." [frames her face with her hands].
preserved by Katie P
"Vegetarians should not be promiscuous."
Karla (preserved by Katie P)
"She is entertained by simple objects."
Bentley's translation summary of "She is going to start the satellite operation of Ziggy's redesigned lucet business in conjunction with Ruskin lace."
(about Katy A, preserved by Bess)
Kylie: "I saw a cow pee next to me."
Emma: "I peed next to a cow."
preserved by Roxanne
"I'm workin' on my fitness! You're my witness!"
Sydney (preserved by Heather L)
"David Bowie is like salt--he just enhances everything."
Bentley (preserved by Bess)
Heather L: "Does she have a large family and a brother named Erik?"
Rachel: "No, she only has two brothers."
Lauren: "But are they large?"
Heather L: "Is that cow wearing a sweater?"
Bentley: "Except that it's a horse, but yes...One of those riding cows."
Juli: "I'm going a little overboard with this febreeze-ing."
Lauren: "Is that what you're doing instead of washing your clothes?"
Juli: "Yes. It makes me feel better because I spray them and hang them up and they're clean in the morning."
Juli [while spraying febreeze in a ziplock bag containing her shoes]: "Here's my master plan--hang them up. And maybe if I zip the bag, it will be like a washing machine."
Juli [after her febreeze-ing]: "Mmm. Smells so clean over here."
"I've got my bare necessities: water and crotch powder."
Jon S when Bess looks at the content of his cargo pockets
(preserved by Bess)
"What would Darwin do?"
Bentley (preserved by Heather L)
"We could be seeing string theory!"
Tiffany about strange oily substance in water at Boscastle
(preserved by Bess)
More Quotation Collection by Annelise
Part the Second: In which the travelers plot their adventures
Whitney: "Monsters!"
Lauren: "I will go defend you from the monsters. Actually, I will go pee."
Whitney: "Pee on the monsters! Pee on the monsters!"
"I'm just gonna lay here and think about how awesome Wendell Methuselah's gonna be."
Katy A (preserved by Lauren)
"What better way to say 'I've been to Edinburgh' than a tattoo that says 'I've been to Edinburgh'?"
Bentley (preserved by Heather L)
"What would Juli's reaction be if I threw poop at her?"
John B. (source unknown)
"Heather, I think you should try an experiment where you don't wear pants for a week."
Katy A. (preserved by Lauren)
"I will give $10,000 to anyone in this room who names their child Orsino."
Katy A. (preserved by Lauren)
"Are we just waiting for someone to burst into prayer? I will do it."
Whitney (preserved by Annelise)
John B: "I don't know, but we can use Rick to measure."
Whitney: "We can just lay him out on the ground. That's one Rick, two Ricks..."
preserved by Heather L
Heather L: "I would lick it, but I can't lick my foot."
Tiffany: "I could totally lick my foot."
Heather L: "Do you want to lick mine?"
"Let me suck from your bladder...The bladder has an unsteady flow."
Lori to Emma about her camelback (preserved by Tiffany)
Chris B: "What are we clamping?"
Katy A: "My femoral artery. After it had been severed in the field of battle. In Mogadishu. In the film Black Hawk Down."
preserved by Lauren
more to come (ed.)
Whitney: "Monsters!"
Lauren: "I will go defend you from the monsters. Actually, I will go pee."
Whitney: "Pee on the monsters! Pee on the monsters!"
"I'm just gonna lay here and think about how awesome Wendell Methuselah's gonna be."
Katy A (preserved by Lauren)
"What better way to say 'I've been to Edinburgh' than a tattoo that says 'I've been to Edinburgh'?"
Bentley (preserved by Heather L)
"What would Juli's reaction be if I threw poop at her?"
John B. (source unknown)
"Heather, I think you should try an experiment where you don't wear pants for a week."
Katy A. (preserved by Lauren)
"I will give $10,000 to anyone in this room who names their child Orsino."
Katy A. (preserved by Lauren)
"Are we just waiting for someone to burst into prayer? I will do it."
Whitney (preserved by Annelise)
John B: "I don't know, but we can use Rick to measure."
Whitney: "We can just lay him out on the ground. That's one Rick, two Ricks..."
preserved by Heather L
Heather L: "I would lick it, but I can't lick my foot."
Tiffany: "I could totally lick my foot."
Heather L: "Do you want to lick mine?"
"Let me suck from your bladder...The bladder has an unsteady flow."
Lori to Emma about her camelback (preserved by Tiffany)
Chris B: "What are we clamping?"
Katy A: "My femoral artery. After it had been severed in the field of battle. In Mogadishu. In the film Black Hawk Down."
preserved by Lauren
more to come (ed.)
Goodbye to Christian
We miss him a lot, and hope that he's having fun traveling with his folks. We also welcome Cheryl, who we met in Cornwall.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Quotation Collection by Annelise
Part the First: In which the travelers express their feelings
"Dear John Bennion, let me write you a list of all the swear words I used today. It would be a lengthy list."
Kylie (source unknown)
"I feel like the boys on this trip enjoy being boys way too much."
Emma (preserved by Lauren)
"Bummer. Barren love."
Lori (preserved by Katie P.)
"I hate being dizzy. It is the worst feeling ever. Well, actually I'm sure there are worse ones. Hatred. Betrayal. But it's up there."
Kylie (preserved by Heather L)
"Lauren, it hurts me to look at you."
Heather L (preserved by Lauren)
"I felt like I was going to make a pearl with my foot."
Lori (preserved by Heather L)
"It doesn't make me feel good to be scorned by a sheep."
Kylie (preserved by Heather L)
Katy A: "So who brought our bags up?"
Lauren: "Whitney and heather W."
Katy A: "A blessing on their heads."
Lauren: "And on their posterity."
Katy A: "Even unto the seventh generation. [pause] And that's a lot of generations."
"Eew! Have you NO social inhibitions?"
Lori, addressing Whitney who was removing a band-aid from her foot at dinner (preserved by Lauren)
"If the Bennions were a reality TV show, I would watch them."
Anonymous
"I would get hypochondria and die."
Annelise (preserved by Tiffany and Bess)
Note: the blogging software will not allow me to cut and paste Annelise's document into the blog, so we will be adding Parts the Second and Third later--the editor.
"Dear John Bennion, let me write you a list of all the swear words I used today. It would be a lengthy list."
Kylie (source unknown)
"I feel like the boys on this trip enjoy being boys way too much."
Emma (preserved by Lauren)
"Bummer. Barren love."
Lori (preserved by Katie P.)
"I hate being dizzy. It is the worst feeling ever. Well, actually I'm sure there are worse ones. Hatred. Betrayal. But it's up there."
Kylie (preserved by Heather L)
"Lauren, it hurts me to look at you."
Heather L (preserved by Lauren)
"I felt like I was going to make a pearl with my foot."
Lori (preserved by Heather L)
"It doesn't make me feel good to be scorned by a sheep."
Kylie (preserved by Heather L)
Katy A: "So who brought our bags up?"
Lauren: "Whitney and heather W."
Katy A: "A blessing on their heads."
Lauren: "And on their posterity."
Katy A: "Even unto the seventh generation. [pause] And that's a lot of generations."
"Eew! Have you NO social inhibitions?"
Lori, addressing Whitney who was removing a band-aid from her foot at dinner (preserved by Lauren)
"If the Bennions were a reality TV show, I would watch them."
Anonymous
"I would get hypochondria and die."
Annelise (preserved by Tiffany and Bess)
Note: the blogging software will not allow me to cut and paste Annelise's document into the blog, so we will be adding Parts the Second and Third later--the editor.
Photo Awards:
Best Portrait of Roxanne (by Bess, above), and Best Portrait of Heather W by Bess:
Above, Best Photo of Janet's First Trip to the Ocean, by Marshall, and below, Best Photo of Our Respected Professor in a Plaid by Bess:
Best Portrait of Whitney, by Bess (the blogger software rotated the picture, sorry):
Best Photo of Livestock, by Tiffany:
Best Photo of Hogwarts, by Tina:
Best Art Photo, by Jon:
Titchfield Abbey
Photo above by Jon, below by Marshall:
by Bess:
by Jon:
by Jon:
by Bess:
by Bess (?)
by Jon:
by Marshall:
by Marshall:
by Jon
by Roxanne:
Totland Youth Hostel
pic above by Jon, below (dancing) by Tina
standing in line for the dish sink by Tina
Heather L by Christian:
Totland Bay, and Janet's first time at the Ocean
Photo of Janet above by Marshall:
all other photos by Jon
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