So I dropped the ball on the second day...my bad! Nothing exciting happened really though, so I can just type it now! Hoorah! Now, where to begin...
My alarm went off at 8:00. I had to get up early because our classes for the morning were in a local church building that I had to locate on a map and then walk to. It was alright though, because I ended up leaving the house the same time as one of the guys and we found the class with no problem. Also, he was wearing a kilt. So that was fun. Then, as a break between our social studies class and our Bible class, we walked to a house just down the road where J.R.R. Tolkien lived and we took pictures and then when we got back we had tea and then class. While I'm on the subject of tea, it's amazing how much of that stuff people drink over here! I think I heard one girl saying that she'd had about 8 cups in one day because she was 'enjoying that part of the culture'. Well, that made me feel bad and like I wasn't doing enough to be cultured so I asked for a cup when someone made a pot and they handed it to me without cream or sugar and I drank it and, first I burned my tongue, and then I almost gagged because it just tastes so weird! I have had several cups of Hot Chocolate though. Which could be mistaken for tea when you just look at the mug, providing I've already had enough that you can't tell what's inside. Maybe I can fool the whole country into thinking I'm as nuts about bland, colored water (tea) as they are!
While I'm here, I'm taking 6 classes but one of them is just online, kind of. Walking for Fitness. The class of speed walking champions across the globe! The only thing I know about this class is that I have to log at least 200 miles of (brisk) walking by the end of the semester. Yesterday, I logged three. Look out! I went with a couple of girls and we walked down by Thames river and it was gorgeous! We passed a small village down a dirt road and a GORGEOUS little restaurant with a lighted walkway and then there was a pasture with horses and boat houses and a tree with crazy carvings. I didn't take any pictures because I was really focused on my walking...for fitness. I'll go back for a pleasure stroll sometime and take pics and try to put them up. It's worth seeing! After I got back, Erika (my roommate) and I procrastinated for a while by finding songs online that we wanted to learn and sing together. We're basically starting a universal cover band. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your taste) I'm the boy of the band so I've gotta learn some LOW notes. That's alright, I'm gonna rock it with gravel-y elegance unmatched heretofore by any other girl! Except for maybe Mariah Carey. Anyway, after our fake rehearsal, we went to a pub called "Gardener's arms" and it was good! After we were done, we were the last ones there and the people working at the counter came over and talked to us. It was so fantastic! One would tell us something and the other would argue with them and then they would talk really fast in different dialects and then reach a conclusion and say something like, "I wouldn't push him down a slide" or "don't show him where a bird's nest is" which mean, 'I don't like him' and 'I don't trust him' respectively.
Then today, Wednesday, I went to the open market with some people. It was so cool. There were tables everywhere with crazy things on them. One of the girls I was with ended up buying a pound of Lychee which is a Japanese fruit that's spiky on the outside, but when you peel it it looks like an eyeball but tastes like a grape! The sales lady let us try one before we bought them and there was a guy in line standing next to me, laughing at me the whole time and he was very cheerful when I said I liked it. At another table, I ate a sample olive marinated in something that was really good. And then for dinner, one of the girls in the house made spaghetti with a homemade sauce that was brilliant and for dessert she made brownie covered oreos covered in white chocolate and that was heavenly! And there's a 'for fun' water polo match that we were going to go to but it's a 30 minute walk and it's really cold outside, so we're not doing that anymore...but I had a lot of fun washing the dishes! Actually, I dried, Erika washed, apparently that's important. And I guess that's it for today. I'm gonna shower and then do a massive amount of reading before I go to bed but I don't have class until 1:00 tomorrow afternoon so maybe I'll put some of it off. I can probably convince Erika to have a jam session instead. Holla!
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