I am just so in the mood to blog it is unreal. So here goes some adventure stories!!!
After arriving at Norwich it soon became quite clear that the town itself is silly, not too much to do. So we plan travel trips! First stop was BRIGH-ONN!!!! aka Brighton.
Booked some train tickets and a super amazing hostel with a fireplace AND sink AND only 4 beds for us 4 travelers (though we did not know that fact at the time), and off we went. My spastic traveling tendencies quickly came out with my spastic packing and frequent misplacement of important objects such as train tickets, but somehow we all made it to Brighton in one piece.
We had some trouble with doors that day, apparently 'push' means 'pull' in my language, and the people on the inside of of the hostel thought it would be hilarious to watch us attempt to open the locked door 78+ times. When we finally got in, we went to our super classy room, investigated, and had a dance party.
We then went and investigated the city, went on the pier, had some fish and chips that were served with a nice loooong piece of the waitress' hair mmmm just how I like it, and then went to the Fishbowl and observed some nice British guts. Yum.
After living like indie rock stars in our hostel room for a bit, we picked up the fourth member of our party and out we went to some super classy places.
The next day we adventured, shopped, adventured, shopped, and went to the Royal Pavilion, which was even sillier my second time there. I still want to sneak in and throw parties there when I move to Brighton to fulfill my goal of being a dread-locked hippie on a bike. Gosh I love Brighton.
Sunday Momma Berk came in from Bogner Regis and we went to a nice lunch. Then we left soon after and caught an earlier train back to UEA wooot!!!
Travel adventure number 2: London for a day. This day was action packed and filled with activity, beginning in Camden and ending sitting on the floor in an overcrowded train. A brief list of sights seen: a naked man on top of a building in Trafalgar Square, paintings by Monet, Manet, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Van Vogh, as well as sculptures by Jeff Koons. A-mazingggg, a watch that cost a million pounds practically in Harrod's (the best department store on earth, so great), GOOODGE street, and loads more. Also ate some wicked Chinese food in Camden.
Travel adventure number 3: London calls again ooo-wwooooo!!!!! This time to see the goons from the Wales trip. SILLY SILLY adventures include: Prick up Your Ears (comedy? hmm), randos, some shopping, eating doughnuts the size of our heads (after a huge meal of tofu yummm), a birthday dinner, not getting lost, and generally bonding with the goons. So good to see them. Also so amazing that we met up in London. But I digress
Planned adventures: Leeds and back to London, Amsterdam (counting down the days to this one), and either Edinburough or some place cooler like Greece!
Enjoy the trip.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Back again.
I am pathetic at this blog. Terrible, actually. Everyday I think: huh, I should probably update my faithful readers (cause I have faithful readers, of course) about my wonderfully British experiences.
So here goes:
I have been at UEA for a little over a month now. Crazy! Because I am far too lazy to give day-by-day instant replays of my adventures, and because you probably have no interest in hearing them, I will give the Sparknotes version instead.
1. Fresher's Week. Being the only people on a fairly large campus and not having to go to module's was quite devine. Met tons of people whose names I have in my phone but can't remember their face, and have never run into them on campus again, and probably never will.
2. This campus is ugly. But then again I guess we at HWS are spoiled with it's gorgeous lake and 'old' buildings with lushes patches of grass mmm. Here is literally a concrete jungle. There are concrete walkways connecting buildings that are literally windows and slabs of gray. I am in a pretty nice building though, they are like pyramids ohhh that are glass zigzags. So green, these buildings, that they tend to over heat and come with a fan. There is a nice lake on campus that I like to run around and hope I don't fall in. Then one day I discovered a marsh with horses that I am convinced are wild but are probably actually not, and a cool river with a bridge with tons of graffiti which is just waiting to be the set of a hipster photo shoot.
3. Courses bahhh. I like don't go to class, but only because I don't have class. That is a lie. I go to 6 hours a week. And all of my coursework is either due in this week or at week twelve, so I really have loads of free time, which is perfect for my latest hobby which is...
7. Ultimate frisbee. Yut yut. You may be going 'Gaby does not play organized sports' which is very true, except frisbee is just so fun. I am throwing lefty so am kind of questionable but eh, it has proven sufficient.
8. The city of Norwich is quite nice. It is out in the middle of nowhere and apparently there is loads of incest that occurs between the locals and if you look close enough you can tell they are all related but I have not yet noticed that. There is a Top Shop here, in which I have to show excellent self-restraint and control or else I will buy the entire store. Thank god for the 10% student discount.
9. I eat probably a pound of Cadbury chocolate per day mmm. Luckily I have to pay 1.50 to get into the gym so when I go I do everything possibly to get my money's worth, so I like to think the chocolate is worked off everyday.
10. I still haven't picked up an English accent, if anything I have developed a Canadian one. Which is silly. Also I will never pick up on an English accent because my American one is sooo strong, or so I am told.
Another post to follow.
Enjoy the day.
So here goes:
I have been at UEA for a little over a month now. Crazy! Because I am far too lazy to give day-by-day instant replays of my adventures, and because you probably have no interest in hearing them, I will give the Sparknotes version instead.
1. Fresher's Week. Being the only people on a fairly large campus and not having to go to module's was quite devine. Met tons of people whose names I have in my phone but can't remember their face, and have never run into them on campus again, and probably never will.
2. This campus is ugly. But then again I guess we at HWS are spoiled with it's gorgeous lake and 'old' buildings with lushes patches of grass mmm. Here is literally a concrete jungle. There are concrete walkways connecting buildings that are literally windows and slabs of gray. I am in a pretty nice building though, they are like pyramids ohhh that are glass zigzags. So green, these buildings, that they tend to over heat and come with a fan. There is a nice lake on campus that I like to run around and hope I don't fall in. Then one day I discovered a marsh with horses that I am convinced are wild but are probably actually not, and a cool river with a bridge with tons of graffiti which is just waiting to be the set of a hipster photo shoot.
3. Courses bahhh. I like don't go to class, but only because I don't have class. That is a lie. I go to 6 hours a week. And all of my coursework is either due in this week or at week twelve, so I really have loads of free time, which is perfect for my latest hobby which is...
7. Ultimate frisbee. Yut yut. You may be going 'Gaby does not play organized sports' which is very true, except frisbee is just so fun. I am throwing lefty so am kind of questionable but eh, it has proven sufficient.
8. The city of Norwich is quite nice. It is out in the middle of nowhere and apparently there is loads of incest that occurs between the locals and if you look close enough you can tell they are all related but I have not yet noticed that. There is a Top Shop here, in which I have to show excellent self-restraint and control or else I will buy the entire store. Thank god for the 10% student discount.
9. I eat probably a pound of Cadbury chocolate per day mmm. Luckily I have to pay 1.50 to get into the gym so when I go I do everything possibly to get my money's worth, so I like to think the chocolate is worked off everyday.
10. I still haven't picked up an English accent, if anything I have developed a Canadian one. Which is silly. Also I will never pick up on an English accent because my American one is sooo strong, or so I am told.
Another post to follow.
Enjoy the day.
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