I enjoyed a quiet weekend this last weekend. All of the teams except ours and Kenya were on pre-outreach preparation trips. There were twenty-some of us still at school. I watched Iron Man with some friends and just spent the weekend relaxing.

London had a record-breaking snowfall this week, with the most snow they’ve had in twenty years. It was enough to “cripple England” and prevent 6 million from attending work on Monday. How much was it?

Six centimeters.

I’m definitely not in Wisconsin anymore. It was fun to have a bit of snow here, though. Some of the students from Africa and South America had never seen snow before.

Capernwray has been busy lately. Our last big paper of the term was due last week, and we have a project due today. In between working on those, Karena and I have been preparing a Ben Folds song for the talent show. The talent show theme is “things that start with ‘D’,” so we’re calling it a duet.

On Saturday we’re going to Silverdale for hiking. It’s an ocean-side hike that ends up a tea shop. This is our third attempt at going, hopefully the weather actually holds up this time.

I’ve been working on finalizing spring break plans. As of now, I’m spending a week in the Lake District with some friends, working at Capernwray for a week, and then traveling to Ireland and Spain with my mom. It’s all tentative, except the Lake District. Seven of us are renting a cottage on Lake Windermere. It’s right outside of Windermere, and is right at the hub of lots of hiking trails through the “mountains.” One of my friends also wants to go to the Beatrix Potter museum, and Keswick, home of the world’s largest pencil, is also nearby. Those two don’t sound all that thrilling to me, but I’ve been looking at trail maps and I can’t wait to get into the National Park area.