haha, if i had a nickel for everytime i was on one of those two girls with no shirt....geeeeeeze...anyway, got up early am to go to austin to catch my flight...
So, i am freaking finally here...my god it took forever. Ok not really, the flight started in Houston, so at 9:45 my Mom and I had to get to Austin for my 12:30 flight. I was so ready to go that I had to leave for the terminal by 11. I had...an hour, to kill before I was close to boarding.
Well, the Houston flight was lame, went up, stayed there for 10 seconds, and then we were there. When I got into Houston, I had to check in with the madre (because I'm apparently 10, hah I KID mother). Anyway, yes, made it to Houston with my bag and backpack and started to meet all the kids I was going with.
I met everyone that we were going with, and literally forgot all their names the next second. Good gravy its rough learning 39 peoples names in 5 minutes. Shoot.
Anyway, so got on the plane after about 15 hours of waiting.
We walked through the first class...
Then Buisness Class...
Then to our seats...
Ok, not really. But our seats were exactly what you expect with a plane...same everything, so not bad. Got on the plane and some english dude (chinese english guy, odd) showed me to my seat. The exit row, with no overhead anything...or a window. So i had to put all my crap like 60 seats back, and phinagle my way back up to my crap seat. Good times.
Plane ride went quick, watch a couple of movies, cleaner with samuel l. jackson is amazing, two thumbs up - a must see in mike's book. Had a beer and went to sleep.
And then it happened........
Oh dear. GOD!!!! OK this damn kid, was screaming bloody murder for hours upon hours. Then the ingenious parents gave their child a bottle. Any good parents would do such a thing. And she stopped crying...
158523523 hours AFTER SHE STARTED!!!!!
Seriously my ipod was as loud as it could be to drown out ms. draama mc-crys.a.lot...
shoot...anyway, yeah we were right behind the lavatory too so we had a few interesting smells as well. good times...
Moving on, we got to London around 7 am, which was really weird to beat the sun around the earth. We had a breakfast through British Airways and met up with our program director in the airport.
and then it happened...
we had to get our passports checked out when we got to the airport, to get into the UK. Let me paint you a picture with words...there was no ac, it was balming, there was a sweaty saudi arabian infront of me. A whole bunch of 13 year old mexican ladies talking about emilo and estabanz becoming gay. (how did i know what they were talking about you ask? as much as they were talking i actually learned spanish)
anyway, got through this 3 mile line in about an hour and went outside to realize, it was like 60 degrees. I met up with everyone and described the differences in gender to everyone. As a psychologer (thats a psychologist who doesnt have his 'ist' yet because he's and undergrad...the 'er' comes after high school) i was demonstrating how we pack...and the x - chromosome and its ties with large suitcases...
anyway, we finally got to cant.ter.bury. as i said that in a european accent because its cool. we got into town about noon and had our orientation, i think everyone was dead. my good friend mckenna (nice on the eyes too..just cheked again...woo) OH GOD< i just remember my math class...hm, gotta email him real quick...
whoo...
nervous, had to get an 18 to get a C. Hopefully i did better than that on the final. So back to my cant.tur.bury tales. We get in and my good friend mckenna, (wowza), lost her luggage on the way to Houston from Austin, so they had to send them through on British Airways the next day. (which is today, she got them, no worries) She was freaking out, but it was funny to watch so i had a good time. we went to our orientation being awake then for a good 13, 15 hours and they wanted to keep us awake to get used to the time difference. Me, mags, mc. k, emily, and a few others went into town to try to get a pay as you go phone so i wouldnt pay 4000 dollars on my next phone bill. we got downtown after getting lost for abount an hour..
then it happened...
my roommate bryan got crapped on by a seagall. BAHAHA, he goes..'ohp, yep, that just happened.' haha, freaking amazing. I dont know if it was being awake for freaking ever or just seeing that happen that made me laugh. our goal was to get a phone, and we lost jodi going into starbucks (who comes to england and gets starbucks, she's probably at mcdonalds right now). We had to find the ladies a mirror and a converter too. Fun times looking for those, everything on sunday here closes at 4 so we had to fly around looking for sctuff. good gravy.
then i saw her...
6'1''. Blonde, nose ring, a body like a battle-ax. Sigh. I asked her about bars and she goes...
hottie: 'are you on holidai?'
thought: say yes, don't say boston, dont say texas...goal a
texan: yeah, i just got in from Texas.
thought: damnit
hottie: 'haha, you're from texas, do you know how to ride a horse?'
texan: not so much, i do know how to drive though.
hottie: haha, thats funny, yeah i know tilly willie's is a chappy good time
thought: haha, chappy
texan: right on, well you should meet us down there...
hottie: ok i definatly will
thoght: ....really?
texan: cool, well i gotta go meet up with the girls i came with, see ya tonight?#
hottie: definatly!
so i leave to go catch up with everyone...and they're no where to be found...gooooood times. So i hung out for a little trying to find them, and i couldnt find them at all so i high tailed it back to our dorm (la franc, i'll have pictures as soon as i can figure this shite out). I got back about an hour after i left cause i kept seeing such amazing things. From the Canterbury Chapel (Duke's chapel is a replica) to St. Augustin's Abby, (both, one of them was the orignal burnt down by King George back in the day, and the other was built in the 1800s). I saw this other amazing church, brewery that was built in 540 a.d. Again, pictures soon.
after that i got back to the room, and after getting lost, i went upto our computer lab thats a good 5 hours walk. gotta add on about 3 hours of getting lost, really not that far just feels that far. its like 830 by now, and we've all been up for about 30 hours, so me and everyone but 3 people went to bed. those three went out to our local down the street pub to recon for the rest of us...the report is a good one, so we'll definatly be there tonight.
i had class at 9 this morning, so me and my roommate were passed out by 830, thats what 30 hours of consciouness will do to ya. we got up at 8 to the sound of banging doors, and went to class. bunch of people got out of class and our goal was to find the computer lab we got here and realized we forgot our username and password, so we walked back got it and came back up here to get on the computer...
and here i am, an hour after blogging and rubbing my sore ass feet. Its about 55 today, rainy and cloudy. Just warm enough to not wear a big jacket, cold enough for a hoodie. So story be, that i'm gonna hang out in cant.ter.bury, grab some coffee and hopefully the phone i never got yesterday. woooo hooo
3 comments:
Nice. I forgot to tell you about the pub on campus. Ah. Many a late night spent there...
Did you see the crator that a bomb caused in WW11? It's on the way to town.
Is the computer room hot? When I was there, the AC didn't work in there and it was terrible!
Keep up the postings. And post as many pictures as you can. I can't wait to live vicariously through you!
Kisses, your big sis.
mikkeeeee I fucking miss you. Come home right this instant.....
or find me a hot english guy and bring him with you.
<3 ya mucho mucho
meg-HAN
Tough day getting over there, but you seem to have found the pub already and an Amazon woman. Not bad for 30 hours of no sleep.
Now why did you go over there!!! Oh yeah, the pub, the weather, the cultural diversification, the warm beer, the crater, the.....
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