Sorry it has been awhile since I have posted on here, so much has happened in this last week that I am excited to tell you about. I guess I should start with Sunday night where I left off at. After I posted the last entry I went to the Sanctuary Bar to play pool. Well actually Petra and I just watched while everyone else played. Pool here is a little different then at home. First, they use 2 colors of balls with no numbers on them. Second, the tables are REALLY small, and since the tables are small the balls are smaller and lighter. While they were played, the Packers/Vikings game was on and I was trying to explain the game of Football to Petra. I think I did OK, but it is kind of hard to do.
After Sunday was over nothing happened until Thursday. On Thursday I went to class and of course we had video problems AGAIN. So instead of watching the movie we started with the lecture part and he would work on the problem during our break. We were learning about Hadrians Wall, which is actually quite interesting and I can't wait to go see it sometime. After the first part of the class was over we moved into a different room to watch the movie. The Wall extends from the North Sea to the Irish sea, and it was a wall not built by slaves but my soldiers. Every unit had their own section of wall that they had to build, really quite interesting. I think if you are interested in that kind of stuff it would be neat to look into. After class was out I went back to my room to look over my presentation for the next day. I wanted to find as much information as I could so I was constantly rewriting it to fit within my 5 minute time span. Finally I felt as though I used all the information I could to produce a decent presentation. I knew that I didn't have to be perfect because it wasn't graded and it was just a warm up for my 20 minute one in a few weeks. Later that day we had a little issue with our internet connection. Well, actually when I say 'little' and 'our' I mean we had a BIG issue and with the whole street. Yes, I believe that the whole Cranbrook Ave and other parts were affected by this internet loss. Not a huge deal for me, but I do know that Catherine had a paper due the next day that she was working on at that particular time. Its ok, she finished it. With the power outage I didn't have anything to do and I didn't feel like reading at that particular time, so I went to make cookies. Well worth it. I made the famous sugar cookies that everyone here as well as at home Love. They were a good motivation for Catherine, or that what she said. When I was all finished with the cookies I headed back upstairs to read a book before bed.
Friday Morning came before I knew it, and that meant I had a presentation to do. No Big Deal, thanks to 4-H I could pull a cow out of my ass and convince people that it was Cotton Candy. Haha. Now get that image out of your brain. After my class I headed home to grab my computer and Postcards, I had a date with a coffee house, Emily and Alysia to discuss our travel Plans. I got there about 20 minutes early, so I ordered a smoothie and started in on filling out my postcard for some of you lucky people back home. When it got to be 11, Emily came and we started talking about what we thought would be good, by that time Alysia joined us. We decided to go to Madrid, Spain from Dec 2-4. So excited! I will just tell you right now, since I just finished doing it. We all all set and ready to go. Plane tickets bought, Train Tickets bought, Hostel picked out and down payment made and it only cost me $207. I would say that is a Cheap, try and find a plane ticket for cheaper than that in the States. You could say it is next to impossible. Yea, and that $207 includes everything that I listed, not just the plane! Whew! I don't really remember what I did with the rest of my day, but I do remember that later the girls came over and we sat downstairs and talked. It was a good relaxing evening.
Saturday Morning came quite early, we needed to be at the bus station at 8:15 so that we could catch the bus to Scarborough. We bought an all day, go anywhere pass for 11 pounds, which was quite good considering. Anyway, we got on the bus and our first destination was Beverly. On Saturdays they have a farmers market that we went to. It was quite a neat thing to see, small but had everything. After we walked down all the rows and bought what we wanted we headed off to see a church that was there. The detailing on this was beautiful, just like every other church we see. 2 hours later we got back on the bus with coffee in our hand and headed on to Bridington. Bridington was interesting, there wasn't that horribly much to see, but we did get our first glimpse at the sea and we also had lunch.
Laszlo, Adam, Svenja, Hana, Audrey, Petra, Istvan, Me
When we were all filled up from Lunch, we headed back to the Bus station to go to our final destination; Scarborough. Arriving in Scarborough I was very impressed on how beautiful was. It reminded me of some type of Spanish city, and what I would image Coney Island would be (only smaller)
Beautiful little city isn't it? Just remind me next time that I do a lot of uphill/downhill walking to wear different shoes, or at least different socks. After we got down from or little hike to the castle we had a little time to spare, so we did a little shopping. I got the rest of my costume for Halloween, best 8 pounds I have spent so far! I will get to that later though. It finally came that time where we had to get back on the bus and take the long 3 hour journey home, and a LONG 3 hours it was. It was worth it though, I had an amazing time seeing the different places and it is always nice traveling with friends.
When I got home I was hoping my package from my Rents was delivered, but I did get a lovely surprise instead. Not. Actually I got a horrid surprise and I wanted to return it, but would not help me at all. Lets just say that I had to pay custom charges before I can receive my package, yes 26 pounds of customs charges! For you who don't know that converted in dollars it is just over 40 dollars! That made me SO SO SO SO SO angry! I wanted to tell them to go shove it where the sun doesn't shine but was talked out of it. Actually I wanted to convince them that I shouldn't have to pay it because I will just bring it back to its rightful place of the US in 2 months. But since I did want the package mom told me just to pay it otherwise they would prolly charge me to send it back home cuz I didn't pay what they wanted me to. Grr. But I did talk to the rents, well mom for over 3 hours that night. We got a lot accomplished, right?! Well not really, but we figured out a lot of stuff. I was looking into changing flights home, instead of going out of Humberside Airport I was looking into going from either Manchester, Leeds-Bradford or even London. They are all further away, but would be cheaper for me to get to. (There are no trains/buses to Humberside. There is a bus but it doesn't leave in time for me to catch my flight. And it costs I think about 100 pounds to get a cab ride there.) Whatever, I will figure something out. Anyone over here wanna give me a ride? :)
Sunday. Do I need to say more. Didn't think so. HALLOWEEN PARTY DAY!
Thankfully I slept like a rock the night before because when I woke up at a nice 10:00 I got ready for the day. Adam, Istvan, Laszlo, and myself were going shopping downtown. The boys had to get things for their costumes, and I had to go buy a purse! Whoohoo! AND I LOVE IT!!!! :) You guys don't want to know about my shopping trip though, puts most people to sleep. I guess I will just continue on with the day. Once I got home I went upstairs and ordered my plane tickets and booked the hostel for Madrid. We did have a few complications along the way, but they were eventually sorted out. After about an hour or 2, Catherine and I went downstairs and frosted the cutout cookies for tonight. We let them sit so that we could decorate them a little later. I went back upstairs and started this post. I am just going to tell you right now, writing these posts take a LONG time. But I did tell you guys that I would keep you informed while I am over here, and they are always nice to look back at to see what I have done. A little while later we went back downstairs to decorate the cookies. Catherine bought a edible pen so we were going to use that to draw on them. Well it kind of worked, but after about 6 cookies it was done. And the frosting was a little too soft for it, so it was a slight failure. I guess it doesn't matter what the cookies look like, just as long as they taste good. And they did taste good, we made sure of that! Hummn... Maybe we should have said they were unsuitable for anyone else to consume and just left them home. We still have quite a few in the freezer, I guess that will have to due. Once the cookies were decorated, stacked and covered it was back upstairs to continue on this post and to get ready for the party.
As you can see I had a blast at the Halloween Party. So until next time. GOODBYE!
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