Cheers

So I was having a pretty good day up until about a couple minutes ago. Stupid internet.

Anyways, I woke up this morning at 8am. I feel like I am on English time for sure now. The sun rises so early and sets so late! It's crazy. We took some pictures today at 10pm and it looks like noon. Crazy. The weather was horrible again. It rains horizontally. Gross

We had our orienation this morning. It was pretty quick and just went over some random things. Then I went to the book store. They use a4 size paper here. Random. And their hole punches are two in the middle of the page instead of three. The three books that I bought were about 30£, but they all look really interesting. I'm excited. After that I headed to the grocery store on a double decker bus! I bought this saver bus pass today. 3£ for all day..I ended up using it four times.. so that's pretty awesome. We went as a huge group to the store. It was called Sainsburry or something like that. It was so cute. Everything was packaged so nicely and it was so clean. They don't use preservatives here, so I tried not to buy too much stuff that I knew would go bad. I got some fruit, jams, peanut butter, crumpets, water, cookies, and then the expensive stuff was a loofa and body wash. Body was was like 4£ (which is about 8USD). Oh and I got this awesome laundry detergent. It is this little purple pillow like thing. I'll take a picture. Oh we got starbucks too. It was horrible. I got a white caffe mocha. It wasn't sweet at all. But they had amazing snacks there. i got this brownie and it was amazing. I saved part if because it was so good. It was super expensive though. Mine was like 4£ for my brownie and drink.

I would post picuters now but the internet is still not working in my room. I came here to the lab, and now myspace isn't working. This is why I'm frustrated. grrr

After the whole grocery store thing, I took a library tour with Liz and Vanessa. The library seems cool and I think I'll be spending a lot of time there. How nerdy.

At 6 I went to class. There were only about 13 people there. We just watched Almost Famous. Since it's my favorite movie, I was pretty excited. I took some notes just because our sections are going to be about 7 people.. That means I for sure need to talk. We will have an assignment due on Thursday already! Ah! So crazy. hahaha.

After class I was really hungry so Lauren, Magen (my flatmate) and I decided to head into the city of Brighton! We took the 25 bus and used our saver passes again! We got downtown and found a fish and chips place. The woman there didn't speak very good English and we felt like we were really dumb. She was just not from England though. haha. Then we ate it on the steps of another restaurant by the peir. We walked along the pebble beach which was fun. The pebbles are soooo huge! It was crazy. I'll post picutres from that some time too... Then we decided to go on the peir and walk around. There was an arcade and I really wanted to play, but all the games were so expensive. I played like 20p on those coin pushey games.. Obviously didn't win anything. haha. Then we took random pictures and walked some more. We tried to go to a pub beucase Lauren and Magen wanted a drink... or something. haha. I don't know. The first one we went to was KooKlub. The bouncers were all dressed up so we felt underdressed. They said we looked fine and could go in, but we deicded agaisnt it. Then we found this like ghetto bar.. haha. We thought we wouldn't feel underdressed there so we tried, but the bouncer wouldnt let Lauren in becuase she didnt have a passport or drivers license. It was awesome. hahaha. Then we decided to take the bus home. Public transportation here works really well. The bus comes as often as every 6 minutes. It's great.

When I got back I made some phone calls. Hearing peoples voices from home makes me smile. However, calling internationally is SO expensive. I bought a $20 phone card when I was in Oakland and it worked for about 16 minutes. Then I bought a 5£ card today. It said I was supposed to have 250 international minutes. It lied. I had like 20 again. ugh. I need to figure something out.

Plans for this week are packed. Tomorrow I have class, need to go to ITS, maybe the library, then we are going to clubbing (as a school? weird. haha). Wed I have class again and there is a pub crawl. Thursday I have a presentation for class. AH! Then I dont know. Friday I am heading to London for like a 7 hour walking tour! Then Sat and Sun I will probably study and head into town again. I want to play in the arcade and do fun stuff down there. Next weekend is Paris! Eep!

Random things I've noticed that are weird...

We don't have warm water. There are two temps. Freezing cold and boiling hot. The water comes out of two different things, so you have to get cold water in your hand then under hot and then splash it on your face. Its hard and doesn't work too well.

Everyone says cheers to everything. It's so cute. I want to start using it.

the @ sign is not located on the 2 on the keyboard here. Its a " instead. haha

Everything is sooo expensive. Ahh. I am keeping track of how much money I'm spending.. and it's a lot. Oops.

I still need a hairdryer.. even though it's been raining like crazy. My hair has gone insane.

Oh well. It's 12:30 in the morning now.. I should probably get going. Keep sending messages. Hoepfully myspace will let me in sometime soon.



Cheers!