The Deep

Hello World!

      Yesterday we went to the aquarium called "The Deep" it was suppose to be a really neat and a must see... However we didn't think so.   Now don't get me wrong it was a nice aquarium and something to do to waste time and the price wasn't bad for what you saw.   We decided to go at 2, that way we could be back for a meeting with our house tutor.. But I'll get to that in a bit. 

This is the aquarium that we went to.  Pretty huh?

 This is obviously one of the many jelly fish tanks.

 These are West African Mudskippers and the tree like thing is a Mangrove. 

This was a beautiful tropical part of the aquarium.. They had a whole bunch of fish and very pretty stingray's in there.

 I just loved all the bright and colorful little fish.

 Catherine and Audrey are checking it out :)

These little guys were prolly the funniest things ever!  They would just bob up and down and wiggle all around. 

 Petra, Audrey, & Adam touching the ICE.  They had a video playing on it. 

 These little guys are the Blue Poison Arrow Frogs.  When we got our tickets this was frog that was on mine. 

 This was a BEAUTIFUL Church.. it is the Holy Trinity church.  It is one of the grandest parochial church in England, and it is England's largest parish church by area in the Guinness Book of Records.  It is 700 years old, the front part of the church dates back to 1380! 

After the exhibit we split up and were walking to the train station to catch a bus.

After the aquarium we split up and some people went to find carrot cake, and the boys went to get something to eat while the rest of us went home.  After we returned home and a little time had passed our house tutor came over and gave us the lowdown on what he was expecting from us and the rules of the house.... yes he is like our mother.   When that glorious meeting was over we took a little nap and got ready for that night.  We went to a house party before we went out to asylum, seems like a pattern right?  I know... but it is freshers week and it is quite common. ANYWAYS, after a couple hours at the house party we decided that we would head to asylum, the on campus nightclub.  When we got there it was about 11:00ish and had to decide if we wanted to go in... Thankfully instead of paying the 5 pounds to get in the lady at the door said that she wouldn't pay that for the party so we instead went to Sanctuary, the on campus bar.   They were having Karaoke at the bar, we ordered our drinks and went to find a place to sit.  The girls at the table decided that they wanted to do a song (they may have had a few drinks earlier....) They did Dancing Queen from Mama Mia! Hilarious! So that was basically all we did that night.......  So until the next exciting thing happens (tomorrow)  I bid you a farewell!

Sleep, Party, Sleep, Shower, Party

Hello World!!
     It seems to have been a couple of days since I have last wrote, so lets get started!  Lets see, I last posted on Sunday, so I shall just start with Monday.  On Monday we made an early morning of it so that we could go register for classes.  Catherine and I headed off to the History Department to meet with someone who could help us get registered and figure out what we would have to do to make this semester as successful as possible.  And for you that know me, yes I did say History Department.. No I am not a history major, however I am talking all history classes while I am here... Scary!   Anywho, I was already preregistered for Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, Architecture of Roman Britain, and Elizabeth 1!  Thankfully the first 2 were ones I really wanted to take!  I did however really want to take American Art 1900-1940, so I decided to drop Elizabeth 1 and take the American Art :)  But, unfortunately the person I went to before would not be able to help me with the last selection, I had to go upstairs to the American Studies Department.  Now if you do not remember from one of my previous posts I told you that we had to go and register in person, fine, no problem, whatever....But I did have to stand in line for 1.5 hours before I could go in and talk to someone about that very last class :(  I did meet a lot of British Students while waiting, which is ALWAYS a plus!   Later that day we went to a house party, it was Mr. O's birthday, so we figured we should go and celebrate it with him.  When we got over there there was under 10 people there so it was a good size.  THEN other people started showing up; people we knew, and people we didn't.  After a few hours the size grew to an unreasonable amount, there had to be at least 50 people in this tiny house and right outside the door.  It was crazy!  Now remember that this is a Monday and we have been going out a lot lately since we don't have class yet.  I knew that Linda was tired and wanted to go to bed, and so we decided that we would leave and hopefully people would start to follow... Didn't work apparently. 

       Now Tuesday was not much different from Monday.  Yesterday was a nice relaxing day that everyone needed to recover from the nonstop go go go of the previous week.  Linda and Catherine had to go into town to fix their cell phones so I decided to go with and see if they could figure out why I can only text certain people and not others.  No Luck.... :(  We were only in town for about an hour before we headed back home to relax and take a nap for that night.   After dinner I went next door to meet them before we headed to the bus stop to do a bar crawl.  We headed out at 8, that way we would be there when it started at 8:30.  Now we had to wear these wonderful light blue t-shirts to get into the bars where you would get free drinks... or so we thought.  No apparently you would have to buy a drink and you would get a free shot... NO THANKS!   The shot looked nasty and the cider that we ordered was not the best.  Lets just say we left and didn't go to the other bars after the first one.  Steffi, Svenja and I decided that we did not want to pay for the bus ride back (1.35) and that we would just walk the 3ish miles home.   Thankfully it was a beautiful night out and was just fine in our t-shirts and jeans!  After about an hour walk home we went to my place and made a mini pizza which we split between the 3 of us and watched a couple episodes of Scrubs!!!  So Funny, Love that show!

     Steffi & Catherine

 Me, Steffi, Svenja, Petra

So far today...
      Although it is only noon here we have had quite a few things happen.   When I went downstairs this morning to get breakfast I noticed that we have ALOT of mail, mostly junk of course.  However we did receive a letter from the TV Licensing company, as had many other people on our street.  But in England when you buy a TV you have to buy a TV license that costs 145.50 pounds.  Now when we watch TV on our computers it apparently alerted the licensing place and they did not like that.  So one of the first things that scared us was that if we didn't buy a license or ignored this letter they would start an investigation and all that fun stuff.  However we did somehow over read the pat that you don't need a license if you don't watch LiVE TV, which we don't.. So we're covered :)  Whew... Then when I went downstairs to wash my dishes the Handyman was there to fix our shower.  It had been leaking and we didn't want it to progress into water damage.  Anyway he just left and told me that we were not to use our shower for a while and he would be back later to check on it.  He put a new seal and some   caulk in it, so hopefully that will work!  Otherwise he said that he might have to replace the whole unit... which means no shower for us :(   Hopefully this will fix it and everything will be A-OK!  

So until next time :)

Hello World and Welcome to Hull!

     Since I haven't posted any pictures of Hull yet I shall do so in this post!  Yesterday I took a tour around Hull and learned some very interesting things, I shall share some of that with you as well!  I also have pictures of where I am living, since I know a lot of you are DYING to see it.  So lets get this started!

                    Welcome to Cranbrook Ave.

                This is my home for 3 months!

When entering the house you will see this.  To the left is Flourien & Kim's bedroom and there is also a bathroom. 

  Walking forward you come into the living room/dining room.

             Then of course the Kitchen.

 Going straight up the stairs you will run into Adams room, and turning the corner there is our bathroom!

 So as you turned the corner you will come down another small hallway.  My room is on the right and Catherine's is straight ahead.

  Now coming into my room!   Don't mind the mess I am still getting situated. 

                                                    Here is just another view of the room.

Now that you have seen where I live I will continue on showing you a few parts of Hull, or the proper name of Kingston upon Hull.

 So I will post the pictures as I took them on the tour.  This is the center of the old part of Hull. 

  Look at those streets!!!  There everywhere!

 This is a pub that we got to go into and look around and see what a real English Pub looked like :)

  When we first walked in we noticed that they had bottles in the walls

 Now we went into the back room where people ate at.   It reminded me of a church with all the stained glass windows.

Just another view inside the pub

 England's Smallest Window.  If you don't see it then its purpose has been fulfilled.  Look to the right of the plaque there is a dark line between the stones... that is the window.

 This is the 'Ye Olde White Harte' which is a pub that dates back to the 1550's.  This building contains the famous 'Plotting Parlour' where Sir John Hotham and other plotted against Charles I. 

    This is just a sculpture that had a little bit of the history on it.
 

               This church is one of the oldest churches in England.  It took over 150 years to build. 

 

The courthouse is on the right.

When the tour of the city was finished we went to eat Fish & Chips and then went shopping! When all the shopping was complete for the day we headed home to rest and get ready for that night.  After getting all dressed up we made our way to a friends flat where we were going to pre-party before going to the Asylum.  Now once it hit about eleven o'clock some people went to the party while others stayed behind and hung out at the house mingling with people.  I was one of the ones that stayed behind, and a good choice that was!  We received word that there was a 90 minute queue (line). We decided that we did not want to pay 5 pounds (about $7.75) for a couple of hours.  Finally we left the party at about 2:00 to go to bed. 

               This is Me, Svenja, & Steffi at the party

  Today we decided that we would go out for a traditional English breakfast.

      Me, Petra, Catherine, Svenja, Steffi and Audrey was taking the picture.

A traditional English Breakfast includes :  Beans, Bacon, Sausage, Hashbrowns, Eggs, Toast.


When our breakfast was all over we went to the Commercial Bazaar.  There we received many different flyers, free stuff, and discounts to different bars and restaurants around town.  Now that the Bazaar is all over I have the rest of my day free to relax and Facebook or Skype people.  Now if you have Skype don't be afraid to add me, I would love to talk to you all!!!  Until Next Time!