Thursday, one morning Class!

So classes this week have been interesting. It feels like everyone in my German class has Idetic (spelling?) memories or something because they seem to be able to pick it up very fast. At least I have Elizavbeth, we are both having a good time in the class together, so we`ll see how the class fares. I like the language and I hope I can pick it up ok. History was amazing!! Gerat lecture and I like the info.

On Thursday Elizabeth and I headed to ASDA after class on a free minibus from the castle. For those of you who dont know ASDA is like a giant Wall-Mart. It has everything, except what I actually need. When we got off the bus we decided to look for somewhere to eat. I thought "we are on a river, there must be some fish `n chips!" For some reason i have found it very difficult to get my hands on fish `n chips. When we happen to be near one no one is hungry or no one feels like fish n chips and I dont want to just grab and go, I want to sit down and have some good old fashioned British fish `n chips! In some cases, as this ASDA trip turned out to be, there were no fish `n Chips to be found anywhere! We walked along the water, WATER! There should be fish floating into their hands! Not flowing! FLOATING! So where do we eat? Pablo`s, which is on the water by the way, but it is an italian restaraunt. I actually did end up having this amazing Pizza. Delicious, of course not as good as yours Dad, but for an Italian restaraunt in England it was very good. Elizabeth and I chatted about the difference between America and Canada, as she is American, and it was very interesting hearing her perspective. She is from Conneticut near New York, very cool.

So we went to ASDA and out of my list of 11 items to buy I purchased a grand total of...3. I got hygene products and a few extra things like hangers and laundry detergent. No portable DVD players to be found. Oh well, I also got my room mate her mobile phone. It took me foreverto figure out what I was doing. I looked down the aisle with the lable mobile phones thinking "why are cell phones in an aisle?" I could not find them to save my life so I asked someone at a counter She directd me withh a general point in the direction and ... surprise, still no cell phones. So I decide to get some of my hair stuff and then come back. I come back and search and I search and just as I am about to ask someone for help I realise . . . there arent any cel phones in the aisle. Instead there are displays of each of the type of phones you can get and the little cardboard cut-out that tells you to go to the counter with it and they will get it for you. Ohhh! Also here they top up their phonese with money and then each call takes money off the price you put in, then you go to a top up station and you can "top up" your phone with more money. Pretty cool, but I like my phone better to be honest.

So we went back to Bader Hall and later (after I do some home work) we decide to head down to the pub. When we get there though there are 4 faculty members there and the pubs staff and that is it! Even they are surprised as it is usually really busy by that time. So I sit at the bar and order my warm up, a rye on the rocks, and I chat with one of the student service managers about stuff. Then the young girl who was working the bar joined the converstation and we chatted with her for a while. She is so cute and really into musicals! I also talked to my history prof, and told him I loved his class and that I found it really interesting. By this time I had had a rum `n coke as well, so I was in fluffy land. After about an hour everyone started to pile down into the bar. I actually enjoyed just sitting at the bar with only a few people around having a relaxed converstation. Angie and Alsion got me and Elizabeth to play pool with 4 guys in upper years. One of the guys was the Russian guy from the bus, should you remember him, yum. So lets just say pool is something I need to work on in the future. I had potential, but motor skills were mostly still in fluffy land. Basically our team lost, but it was a good game.

Elizabeth and I headed in after that. For me it was time to pack for London the next day. By the way I stayed over in a hostil with a bunch of people from the castle. This story is to be continued as it is a longer one, but very luscious and time-worthy. Read up sometime tomorow or the day after for my London installment!