GRAPES!

Grapes from Egypt rock! I went to Sainsburry this morning with Lauren. The fact that the bus costs 3pounds is really starting to annoy me. It's adding up. I should have gotten a weekly pass for last week, but it's too late now. Anywho, at the store I got some soup with poptops (our can opener here is evil and does not work) and fruit and granola bars. Yummm. I also got some Indian food which I ate for Lunch and dinner. It was the best thing I've had since I've been here. I really wish that I had gotten to eat when I was in London. Oh well... There will be other times. For now I'm just happy that I have some fruit to eat. They package everything so cute over here. The grapes I am eating are in this little carton and it says "one of your five a day". It's adorable.

We watched a terrible movie in class today. It was called "The Smell Of Success." Yeah.. terrible. I hope the movies get better in class because today seemed like a waste of time. But there was one great quote. I wrote it down.. *searches through notebook* "You're selling me fish thats 4 days old. I DON'T BUY IT!" hahaha. That was the highlight of the movie.

I am sooo excited for Wednesday! I have my class from 1-3. Then at 6:30 we are heading to a concert!!! We're seeing The Hold Steady, who is one of the bands my teacher represents. He is don't a darn good job of getting them big here. haha. I was flipping through music mags and I saw like 5 articles on them in 3 magazines. They are also playing at this big festival with a good spot in the lineup. I really hope the show is fun. I think it will be because a lot of my friends are in the class and it's like a huge field-trip. I got new batteries for my camera so I'll be sure to take pictures too. Eee. I'm excited.

Paris is this Thursday too. Woo Hoo. It's going to be a busy week. Tomorrow I need to work on my projects a lot so that I don't have to worry so much over this weekend. I'm excited to eat crepes and amazing chocolate in Brussels. I don't know if I will get a chance to blog while I am there, unless I stop in an internet cafe. We'll see.

As for the being stranded in Ireland thing, I think I figured it out. I'm pretty sure I am just going to stay in Dublin the whole time instead of going down to Cork. That way I can fly out of Dublin into Gatwick at a reasonable time, for not too much money. We'll see.

Everyone is starting to get sick. It scares me. I've been trying to go bed at a decent time and get back on a normal schedule. I also bought these multivitamins but when I opened the package, they were HUGE! There is no way I could swallow them. I have issues with tiny pills, so I've pretty much given up on these ones. I'm hoping that fruit will come to the rescue and protect me. Fruit and sleep- My two favorite things here (other than my umbrella and digital camera.. which are necessities).

Okay. Time to read and sleep! Good Night!

and Happy Birthday to Anthony in 10 minutes!

Day 3

I stayed up way to late last night. I did not want to wake up this morning, despite how uncomfortable the beds are here. They are leaving me with horrible back aches. My fingers are also starting to hurt. I think its joint pain due to the cold.. I hope that's all it is.

I went to my first real class this morning. It was great! There were only about 8 of us in the class. It was all girls. My Professor (or Tutor is what they call them here) is really cool. He is the owner of a PR firm. I think it's called Triad. He does PR for Kasabian, Bjork, and other cool bands. He loves American food and how our portions are really big. And he wants to go on a roadtrip with all the 50 states. Its funny. The class is mostly him reading off notes and asking us if we understand, but he talks about really interesting stuff. He is very unclear about his expectations though. However, he said he is a "easy marker." The coolest part of the whole thing is that we're going to a show for class! We're going to see The Hold Steady in London! Oooo. I'm excited. He went an hour over the time he was supposed to, but I still want to go eat lunch with the guy. He just seems awesome.

I also got my internet working today. But when I did that I went on facebook and saw a note that my old TA, Liberty Jaswal died in a hit and run car accident. There are lots of articles about it online. From the articles, it didn't seem like much of an accident. I don't think it's really hit me yet. I've never really had someone I've considered my friend pass away. He used to go to all my shows and I spend hours and hours with him in office hours. He was a really awesome, passionate person and he'll be missed. It's really really sad.

After I heard about that, I went to the library to try and get my mind off of the situation. I searched for 15 books for my class. The library had one. That was sort of frustrating. I think the library at UCSD is much better. reading here is different. My teacher doesn't really expect us to read, but he just has the books there for us if we want to read them or get ahead. It's strange.

Then I ran into Lara. We went to Samantha's room and talked for a bit. Then went to the bus stop so we could go into town and get some food. We ran into James at the bus stop and all headed to Grubby's Burgers. I got a chicken burger because I am still afraid of the beef here. It was okay. Onion rings here are really different though. It's like they cut up the onions before they fry them. When you break open the fried shell, you can't take the onion out. Oh, and I had to pay 40p for katchup (or however you want to spell it). Then we went back to the grocery store. Then home. It was fine and put me in a better mood.

I was going to go to the club even tonight, but decided against it because I was tired and didn't have anything to wear. It was kind of nice to have some alone time. I caught up on Entourage and did a little chatting online. It makes me feel at home.

I wish my hand wasn't hurting and that I had some real food around here and that myspace would let me log in for once!

I hope that this blog is entertaining. I think tomorrow I'll post pictures since I don't have class until night time.. and no plans for the morning. I realized I can't upload the ones I took on my phone because I would have to email them to myself since I dont have the cord, and that would probably cost a lot. Those will just have to wait.

With the help of 5.5 pounds, I now have a hair dryer. Amazing.

It costs 54 pence to mail POSTCARDS to the US.. so you might not be getting post cards after all. haha. Oh well. I'm doing good on the emails. Now I just need to work on the pictures.