TO AMSTERDAM!

I'm going to Amsterdam this weekend!!!

Look for pictures and a new post Monday or Tuesday!!

It's the middle of February??

I can't believe that it's already almost the end of February...time has flown by!

  I finished writing and proofing my first essay last weekend.  I am VERY happy that it is over and done with.  Unfortunately I have two more I have to write before spring holiday.  Bummer.  I am beginning research this weekend and hope to have an essay started next week.  I am really looking forward to my trip to Amsterdam on the 28th and Mike coming to visit.  It turns out that Lancaster is having a Beer Festival while Mike is going to be here and we are both excited to go!  

I have to say I've grown tired of class already, I'm starting to see why so many Brits skip class all the time (I haven't skipped a single class..just fyi).  Having a lecture for two hours once a week really doesn't spark a lot of interest.  There isn't the bond between students like there is in the states.  I suppose sitting in a large lecture once a week doesn't exactly foster friendships.  

I'm beginning to feel like spring lasts a long time over here.  Someone in my seminar last week said there was one "hot" day last summer, what the Brits idea of "hot" is I don't know. I could be Michigan hot or it could be like Texas hot..they think that 45 degree F is cold, so I don't exactly trust their judgement of temperatures. 

 I think I may be starting to get sick :(  I hope not though, I have a busy few weeks ahead and then break!  I am drinking lots of water though and washing my hands, food and dishes REALLY well.  I think that sharing a dirty kitchen with 20 or so other students is detrimental to my health!  I don't keep my dishes or my non-refridgerated or frozen food in the kitchen for fear of someone sneezing on it! haha.  It is life as usual around here.

  I wish I could travel more right now.  The only place I've seen so far is Edinburgh.  I hope to be able to travel more in May and June.  It depends on when my finals are though.  I'd still really like to go to Stockholm (two girls on my floor just went and loved it), London, Stonehenge, Spain possibly.  I'm also going to see about joining up with the hiking club this week.  I haven't done it yet because I didn't have a student ID (aka purple card...which you have to PAY for!), but now I have one and I'm going to see if I can still sign up and do a few day hikes in the Lake District after break.

  I have to say I am missing home lately, I'm a bit over life and school here.  But it is still exciting and I still have a lot left to see, so I'm sure it's just a lull of life.  Hope everyone is doing well! 

I've been here for over a month now..

I've been here for over and month now, it's kinda crazy to think about.  On one hand it still feels like I just got here, and on the other it feels like it's been ages. 

 I'm sorry about not updating very often, I've fallen into a "school routine" and not much exciting has been happening.  I've spent most of the past week doing some reading so I can start my sociology essay, not very thrilling. 

 I did however make it out on Friday night to have a proper night out.  The campus hosted Friday Fury, which is when all the pubs on campus open and have drink specials.  For every pub you go to and buy a drink you get a card with the college logo on it (i.e. bowland, county, pendle..etc).  With 3 cards you get free entry into Sugarhouse (a club in town) and they have free buses that run.  It was a pretty good night, Sugarhouse smelled of liquor, sweat and vomit in some places (not very nice). I don't think I'll frequent there. haha.

  I got a really amazing package from my Mom today filled with some great stuff and now I'm decked out with a Kalamazoo t-shirt, water bottle, 2 pens, pencil and bumper sticker.  How cool!  I also got some cards in the mail, some of which were very unexpected!  So Thanks Mom, Dad and Joanna! 

 Other than that, not a lot going on.  Just working on my essays, my goal is to have my sociology essay done this weekend so I can start on the others.  I'm looking forward to going to Amsterdam in a few weeks and for Mike to come visit. 

 Ok that is all. Tah

Another week has already gone by!

It's hard to believe that another week has already gone by.  

Not a whole lot new has happened.  It has been very cold here the last few days (like normal michigan cold, but not as cold as it is there right now I suppose).  So that has been nice and bad.  It is just so much windier here that it almost seems colder! 

 I got some great news this week, Mike (my boyfriend for those of you that don't know him) is going to be coming to visit me for a week! It was a total surprise and an amazing one at that!  

Other than that I went to Manchester yesterday to do some shopping and see the city.  We found a store that had HUGE sales called Primark and I got some things I had been looking for since I got here.  

Besides that, not a whole lot is going on.  I have papers that have due dates coming up and I will be spending a great deal of time working on those.  My shortest paper is 1500 words and my longest is 3000!!!  So I have begun working on them and will be until I leave for easter holiday.  

Other than that..life as usual (kind of).