New Things

Having a break during the middle of the week is really nice. While it would be cool to instead have no Friday classes with and a 3-day weekend, I'm thoroughly enjoying sleeping in and doing nothing during the middle of the week. Since Lily (flatmate) doesn't have Wednesday classes either, we decided to go to Bridges and do some shopping. She works at Subway back at her home in Australia, so we stopped by the Subway here to see if there were any differences in the menus. I was feeling adventurous so I ordered something called a chicken tikka, not having any clue what I was about to eat (Google later informed me tikka is a type of curry, so that explains why I wasn't a huge fan of it, but my belly was thankful for food nonetheless).

Today I bought a satchel at T.K. Maxx; it's just like T.J. Maxx, but just with a different name. I've been researching what the letters stand for but haven't come to any real conclusion why the name is different over here. I also found some adorable boots from a Payless-type shoe store and a leather jacket that was half-price from a place called Peacocks. Most girls have a billion shoes or a billion purses, but I'm a jacket girl. Since I only brought one with me (besides a rain jacket), I've been having serious withdrawals. Now that I have a leather jacket, I can look super cool and fit in with the other billion people who wear leather over here! Also, I invested in some real dishware and cutlery from Poundworld, bought some stamps so I can mail postcards/letters, and finished up the PowerPoint for tomorrow's group presentation. Laundry can wait until the weekend.

About half an hour after I got back to the flat, my other roomie Shelby asked if I wanted to go with her to find a good coffee place. We ended up walking all the way back to Bridges, where I stumbled upon an awesome canvas union jack painting thing on sale for £2.50, so that's currently hanging in my room now. My feet are pretty tired from all the walking (I looked it up, and walking to and from Bridges two times in a row is around 5 and a half miles... so I'm definitely getting my fair share of exercise in!). I'm really looking forward to tonight; I have a skype date scheduled with my fantastic boyfriend Steven. It is kind of difficult being 4000 miles away, but we make it work and I'm so thankful for it :)

- There are a lot of security/policemen who walk around the town. I've only seen maybe one or two police cars, but probably at least 20 of them on foot since I got here.

- The ambulance is bright yellow, with a small yellow and green checkerboard pattern that goes down the side. It looks pretty cool, actually!