north

this week we went NORTH! like to the lake district (i.e. ABLISCIDE!) and York. this was the greatest week ever!! I want to record every story. of every minute. because it was so great!! but, unfortunately, I'm tired and sick. and drowning in homework. and only have a week left in london.... so perhaps I will just say:
that is officially the most beautiful place in the world.
and, york is HAUNTED! like seriously. legit.
we went on a ghost tour and i jumped out of my skin in the first 10 minutes when i bumped into the umbrella stuck in the ground behind me that I was sure was a ghost. and then for the next hour I jumped and screamed a few more times than I care to admit. but the thing is, the stories weren't just like oooooh so scary. they were REAL! it was very spooky. Like here's one:
we were at an old building - now used as a church, but it used to be a boarding school or something. and the conditions were really bad, so the little girls would die, and the headmaster Mr Pimm would bury their bones under the floor boards so he could still get government funding for them. and without a proper burial, the girls ghosts lingered there and haunted the school. Well evil Mr. Pimm was driven mad by their ghosts and the secret, so he was sent to the insane asylum where he confessed his crime. So the people went and tore up the school and found the bodies of all the girls excpet 3 - and they still haunt that neighborhood to this day.
and then he told us all the sightings people have had etc.
i know that as I'm typing this, it doesn't seem that scary. but it was really creepy. Leaves blowing even though there was no wind, suddenly it was really cold... it was all just really terrifying. everyone in the group just kept glancing at me, worried I was about to burst into tears (again...)
BUT this isn't the end of my haunted tale! because after it ends, everyone is a little on edge, and we're walking home, to stay in our rather sketchy hostel - which our ghost guide told us is haunted in the tv room - and we walk past the insane asylum. which still functions as such, jsut as it did in the days of.....MR PIMM.
so we're walking, I'm sort of a bit behind the group (the regular gang/my fam here - sarah, clark, jacqui, chery, eden) and I SEE A CREEPY OLD MAN BEHIND THE OLD FENCE IN THE TREES! so i scream and grab onto clark. and then it's kind of a blur... all I konw is that I didn't let go of him for a while and i think i might have pulled off his arm. I was the only one who saw anything, but sarah and jacqui both heard a mans voice just before I screamed! so three possible options I see:
1. it was a hobo who had hopped the fence and was just lurking creepily outside the ominous insane asylum building
2. it was an insane patient, in the middle of his grand escape that he's been planning for years as he dug a tunnel out - just shy a couple of feet unfortunately, cause he obviously didn't clear the fence...
3. it was the GHOST of MR PIMM.
i'm rather inclined to believe the last.
well, like we haven't had enough - i'm practically in hysterics and would perfer to go to bed, but am too scared to be alone - so we go to the supposedly haunted tv lounge to tell ghost stories. well it was awful. and clark wins for telling the scariest story i've ever heard. we all were crying at this point. and he finishes, and i think someone was just saying jokingly to clear the mood - yeah but who really believes in ghosts, or something like that. adn the DOOR SLAMS. even though nobdoy is around. then we all screamed and ran back to our room. and sang hymns. and ate chocolate. until we were calm enough to let clark leave to go to his room. and then we went to sleep. except i didn't really sleep that well, cause i kept seeing that creepy mans face in my dreams...
I was glad ot come home and put some distance between me and york.... hopeuflly his ghost isn't following me.
but not happy to leave amblicide! we went on a hike through HEAVEN and sat in this big tree that over looked the lake, and ate LOTS of ice cream, and jumped in the lake, etc. etc. etc. it was so great. and peaceful. london is great, but so busy! and I always feel like I should be doing 10 things and seeing something great. but there I just walked around and soaked it in. now back for one last sprint to finals and HOME!