Charleston was so beautiful so I thought I'd show the weekend through a few photos..
Its the oldest city in south Carolina, and home to Fort Sumpter, where the first shots of the Civil War were shot. We had a boat trip over to see the fort which was interesting. I did the Cvil War in AS levels so it was all coming back and was really interesting to actually see the places we'd done those silly source analysis questions on...
Beau-tiful weather, too! We've had it in the 70's this week in Chapel hill as well. SO nice. I didn't bring hardly any summer clothes with me, -- who'd have know it would be this warm in February. So of course that induced a little shopping.....
We found a hippyish shop with loads of jewellery and nic-nacs, yoyo's, that sort of thing -- and these amazing masks... hours of fun in there :)
Rainbow row! Aside from Fort Sumpter we went and saw the town market, and this little row of houses called rainbow row. They were such beautiful little towny houses.
We also had fun on the Charleston tiles, too! Of course. It was Sara's birthday on the Saturday, though that didn't stop anyone enjoying Friday night perhaps a little too much... All 23 of us we went out to a fish restaurant and then to a club on the Saturday, these flaming shots were given to us to drop into a glass of *#insert sweet drink here#* and then drank in jager bomb style. Needless to say the 5 hour ride home on Sunday was interesting...
This is Rainbow row again. And a couple of the other internationals.
It was cool to spend time as such a massive group, and we didn't try to stick together the whole time which made things a lot easier. I think studying abroad attracts a certain type if person, just with their own twist depending on which country they're from... The Spanish girls had everyone speaking Spanish the whole weekend! Everyone is pretty confident and willing to just go out and do everything whilst we're here, most people are pretty nice too; makes the whole experience a good'un.
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