Flight is Booked

Well okay then...officially leaving for the UK in 53 days, flight has been booked, ISIC card is activated, I've ordered the international SIM card...gosh, I'm so nervous right now!

So, about this blog - this will be the story of me in Wales. I'm going through my school, Central College, and I'll be there for an entire semester. It's still hard to wrap my mind around, I'm going to the home of Merlin and Saint David! How cool is that?

Merlin is well know, of course, everyone knows about him. He was a magician, advisor to the great King Arthur, and the lead character in many books and movies. There is one record of a "Merlyn" having helped Urther Pendragon, not necessarily by using magic. According to the Historia Brittonum, it was Merlin who revealed to the king Vertigon that the reason for his constantly collapsing tower was that there were two dragons in a lake, fighting and causing the tower to collapse.

Saint David on the other hand (Dewi Sant, in Welsh) is not as widely known. He was a Christian saint who travelled to Wales in the 6th century. He founded many wells, a monastery, and urged his brothers to abstain from worldly pleasures, to spend their evenings praying, writing, and reading. Possessions were forbidden. He was a famous preacher, and turned many towards Christ. St. David's Cathedral, in southwest Pembrokeshire, stands on the site of the monastery that he had founded.

And I get to go to the home of both of them. I am excited, and terrified - my first time flying all by myself!

--Never fly faster than your guardian angels can--

Kae