Some Lancaster Walks

Teaching at a big university sure is different from Allegheny College.  I've been on campus for two weeks and in the classroom since January 16 - two lectures and three discussions per week.  I now have an office.  I've just accessed the university computer system so I could learn how many students I am supposed to have in class.  I still don't have photocopy and print privileges.

I received a light caution when one student contacted department officials when she thought there would be more than one assignment during the term.  There will be just one.  A final exam (the other 50% of the grade) needs to be written this month so it can be approved by external evaluators.  Students will sit for the exam in June, a couple of months after the class ends.  All of my notes need to be posted on line.  Today, students starting asking for me to video record my lectures, also to be posted on line.

It really isn't clear to me why anyone would even go to class.

The center of campus before students wake up.

Sue and I have used our weekends to walk from home.  We began close by with some of the sights in town.

The 900-year-old-castle on top of the hill.

The view from the castle.

Over the weekend of 14 January we went on a 10 mile trek from the canal to sheep pastures to the Lune River to the Irish Sea.

The canal near our house.

The sheep near the canal.

The following weekend, walking north from our house, the canal crosses the river on an aqueduct.  The aqueduct was constructed in 1792 to move coal inland to power cotton mills.  The cotton came from the New World along with enslaved Africans.  Limestone moved toward the sea.

Aqueduct

Lancaster Canal crossing the Lune Aqueduct.

Looking down onto the River Lune from the aqueduct.

And pub food at the end of our walk to the sea.

Cheers.