Exploring the Town

Now that my computer's working again (yay!) I'm finally posting pictures of this beautiful place. I did feel a little strange walking around town with my camera and stopping to take shots of some of the buildings. There really is no campus; the university buildings are just dispersed throughout the town. As a result, plenty of people stared at me as I stopped on the sidewalks and waited for cars to pass so I could get pictures of buildings across the street.

Anyways, I'll give you some info on all of the pictures.

The first is a shot of St. Salvator's Chapel. They hold church service here every Sunday, followed by a pier walk (more on that later). Behind the chapel is the quad, which is surrounded by biuldings for various subjects. The second picture shows Younger Hall. This is more or less the Alamance of St Andrews (an administration builiding for those of you who aren't familiar with Elon). I spent about an hour there in various lines during matriculation. Next two shots are the cathedral. On the east side of town, along the North Sea shore stands the cathedral ruins. There are parts of three structures still standing. The surrounding land is an old cemetary. Rachel and I walked around one afternoon. There is one tower you can climb up, which supposedly offers a spectacular view, but you have to pay and we are poor so we decided to just take a look around. Last is a shot of the castle. These ruins are on the north shore. I believe you can pay to enter these as well, but we didn't go that far. We did, however, venture down to the beach and out on some of the rocks since it was low tide. I didn't realize that St Andrews was truly on the coast until I got here. If only it were warm enough to go swimming.

Since I can only put up so many pictures at one time, I'll have to post again to show the pictures of my hall (dorm) and room.