Day 3

On our third day at Buckfast Abbey, we spent the morning and afternoon taking classes with our own Dr. Brodeur and some of the professors at the School of Annunciation. Dr. Brodeur gave us a very helpful lecture on the background of Roman Britain and its founding. One of my favorite parts of this to learn was about Queen Boudica and how she single-handedly reclaimed independence from Caesar in the first century (p. 26, Roman Britain) for her Kingdom in the north part of the country. My favorite lecture of the day was by one of the Annunciation professors who talked about Catholic culture in the UK, and the struggles of apathy and lack of community that Catholics in the country are facing.

After a fantastic dinner (pictured below) at the Northgate house where us women were staying, we gathered to watch Hot Fuzz, our first film of our Art 116 class. While British humor is not especially my favorite, I could appreciate Hot Fuzz for the example of modern British comedy that it was. In particular, I thought that the acting in the film was very believable – for example, you could believe that these actors really were the characters playing the goofy parts that they were.