Its a Saturday and I'm posting a new blog! YAY! Actually you're probably think "man, how lame is this. Dana's in this super cool country for a year and she's so bored over the weekend she has to update her blog?" But I swear it's not like that. I only slept in until half 12 today (also known as 12:30) and it's been raining most the day and I was out late last night. OK, that's enough excuses. Its just like at ISU there really isn't too much to do on the weekends unless its at night and its 4 in the afternoon here so the campus is pretty much dead. Although there is a strange man walking around taking pictures of the campus.
Anyway, (yes I do realize that half of my paragraphs start with anyway) as you now know, because I'm sure you are an avid reader of this blog and simply can't get enough of it, I am fully healed from the Freshers flu! Which is a very good things as I had planned on walking to Kemble this afternoon but had to cancel do to rain. I swear that's all that ever happens in this country and I probably wouldn't mind it if I had Wellies to keep my feet dry, but I don't.
Most of this week was pretty uneventful. I did socialize with people at the Tythe and like I said I was out late last night at the Student Union "B" party, where we had to dress up as, wear, or bring something that started with a "b". I, thinking myself to be clever, went as Baby Spice and borrowed a dress from a friend that emphasized my bosoms quite a bit more than I was comfortable with. She, however, went in my bathrobe so I guess we're even.
Thursday night, however, I learned how to do some Scottish Reeling. Which is pretty much a cross between square dancing and line dancing set to Scottish music instead of country music, but way more fun then either of those. Except the group I was in when were doing a Reel called Strip the Whip were rather violently flinging the girls around and I have several rather nasty looking bruises on my arm, and they almost make it look like I am a drug junky. It was a really good time and met new people, which is always exciting.
Also, my friend Naomi and I took a bus to Tescos but we were then told that the bus was not returning so we had to walk all the way back to campus. It took about forty-five minutes so it wasn't actually that bad, but still I would have liked to have known the bus wouldn't be returning before I got on it in the first place. But while at Tescos we picked up vampire teeth, like the kind you get for about 10 cents in the US and I got a fake mustache.
On other thing I seemed to be having a problem with some British English and American English words. I don't know if you know this but here in the UK the word "pants" means panties or knickers or underwear and the word "trousers" means pants or jeans. One night we were discussing wearing "trousers" and I happened to be wearing a skirt at the time so I said "I'm not wearing any pants today." As you can see this caused a little bit of a problem because what they thought I meant was "I'm not wearing any underwear" not "I'm not wearing trousers."
Anyway, (I went for three whole paragraphs without using the word it was about time) it is now about half 5 (5:30) and that means that dinner is about to be served. One last thing, my sister sent me a package in the mail and you'll never believe what was in it...TEA! How funny is that I had to be sent tea because there isn't any over here in England. Although if you think about Americans hated British tea so much they threw it into Boston Harbor so it makes sense. ( I would like to point out that I realize this point to false and that they tea was thrown into the Harbor in protest not because we didn't like it)
That's all, now I'm off to go eat undistguishable dining center food (I never thought I'd miss ISU dining so much) and make a video!
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