Celebrating the summer in Welsh

 

There is a community of Welsh speakers among the academic staff in the university, and we don't meet up very often, but it does sometimes happen. Mostly, that takes the shape of meetings of the Welsh National College (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol), but sometimes there are socials, too. And the lady who carries the lofty title of Dean of the Welsh language of the College of Science and Engineering, the very down-to-earth Stella, had organised a summer celebration. The idea was to go for a walk first, then either coffee or food in one of the university cafes.

I decided to go. It's nice to go for a walk with people! And I wanted to keep in touch with this group. So I showed up at our meeting place and so no one. I was already checking the invitation on my phone when Mollie appeared. I was in the right place at the right time! And not much later, Stella herself appeared.

A few more people appeared. Katherine and Neil from Natural Sciences, and Ed from Education (nominative determinism?) And we decided to head for the nearby Roman camp.

It wasn't very eventful, but it was such a beautiful day! Always nice to flaunt some sunny pictures on this blog. At the Roman camp, Neil already had to leave, but he is an Eryri Harrier, so he could do that rather fast.

View from Roman Camp

The rest of us proceeded to the Pier. I was a bit sad we just walked past an ice cream booth. But Stella knew she had to keep going. There were people who hadn't wanted to join the walk, but wanted to join for the coffee or food afterwards. So we had to be back in time. 

On the pier

It was really nice to just walk, and talk Welsh. I don't think I had ever spoken Welsh with Ed and Katherine. Now I have! And I had spoken Welsh with Mollie and Stella many times, of course, but that doesn't mean I'm tired of it.

When we got back to the university café (late, of course) I decided to just head for the office. I had stuff to see to. But it had been very nice!