Well, this week was pretty uneventful. I went to class on Monday and Tuesday like usual. This week we were learning about facial bones in human and tooth wear ageing in animals. And yes, ageing is spelled correctly. That's how they roll here. So Wednesday I spent a ton of time in the various bone labs learning things. Then I had choir practice. We're working on Little Shop of Horrors and Hail Holy Queen from Sister Act. I know its pop music, but the director doesn't always get the rhythms right and its driving me crazy. I guess I just need to get over it though. The songs do sound good when we all sing together. And they actually come together pretty quickly. But we have about 20 sopranos and 7 altos, so its a bit unbalanced.
After choir I went and saw another foreign film. This one was Swedish and was about vampires. It was pretty good. Creepy in more of a morally and ethically disturbing kind of way than blood and guts. Can't remember the name of it though.
Thursday I didn't go into Uni and went looking for some boots. I found a great pair at Asda, but they didn't have them in my size :( So I ended up at a couple of different stores and finally found a cute pair of gray ones for 8 pounds. They're from a pretty cheap store, so they may not last long, but for 8 I suppose I can live with that. (Sorry, I don't know how to type a pound sign on my American keyboard. If you know, you should tell me.) I also got a couple pairs of tights and a pretty scarf. Then after lunch I went and joined the gym across the street from my flat. Its really nice and has a gym, a pool and classes.
Friday I had to go into uni to pick up a book that I had put on reserve. (Which, as it turns out wasn't all that useful. I'm going to copy a few pages out of it, but I could have lived without them. Oh well....) It was just a quick trip, but I also picked up a few books on bone development and teeth in humans for a paper we have to write. I'm trying to decide which topic to write about as we have 4 options. I'm leaning toward teeth, but I want to read around the options a bit first. Anyway...when I got back I had orientation at the gym. I spent about a half hour learning how to use all the gym equipment. It was kind of useless since I'd been going to the gym back home, but some of the machines were a bit different so I guess it was good.
Later that night I went with my flatmate Baitalikee and a couple of people from another flat to get fish and chips for dinner. I don't generally like fish, but as its fried and breaded I am able to eat this. Its basically fishfry, for those who don't know. And chips here are french fries. Potato chips are called crisps. Weird. So we went to this little shop and got the fish and chips and then walked down and sat by the quay (pronounced "key") to eat them. On the way back home we stopped at the store and got tequila, triple sec and lime juice. We were going to a beer pong party, but I thought I should introduce everyone to upside down margaritas. No one drowned, but I did get alcohol all down my face and neck :( But it was a good time.
On Saturday I had to be up early to get to the class that I had signed up for at the gym. It was called BodyPump and entailed a short bar with weights. We then used it to do a ton of squats, bicep curls, arm extensions etc. My muscles were hurting while I was doing it despite not using very much weight. By the time I got home though I was fine. I read for a good portion of the day and actually got through quite a bit of material. Then I made potato salad for the pot luck that I was attending that night. It wasn't quite right because they don't have pickle relish here. So I had to just cut up pickles. But the pickles aren't quite right either, so it was a bit off, but it tasted okay. At the potluck we had lasagna, home made mac and cheese, macaroni salad, potato salad, bruschetta, garlic bread, quiche, spicy fried squid, and a ton of desserts. There was a bunch of food left at the end so we all got a take home plate.
Today I woke up and ate my leftover quiche with some coffee and orange juice. It was delicious. Then I read for awhile and contemplated a Halloween costume. I came up with Gypsy, but thought that might not be pc. I went out shopping with some other girls for costume stuff and was inspired to try to be Rainbow Bright. So because I was inspired right at the end of the shopping and wasn't sure exactly what I needed to be Rainbow, I came home and looked at some pics and will be going shopping again tomorrow after class. So after that I got a bit more reading done and then went out to dinner with some other archaeology people. We got burgers at the bar across the way. Then I got some profitaroles for dessert. They were filled with ice cream instead of the usual cream. Yummy! Then we came back here and watched Good Will Hunting. I had forgotten that it is actually a pretty good movie.
So let us now consider something British. Roundabouts. The reason that they need them here is that their roads don't meet up at a 90 degree angle. The roads are all curvy and random and may run into each other with two very close together and then far apart on the other side. So having a roundabout makes sense. In the States this isn't true, so we don't need them. But its really cool here because most of them are two lanes. If you are going further around it you stay in the inner lane and if you're just going to the next exit you stay in the outer lane. Its pretty impressive to see all the cars and buses going through and not crashing. Or driving on the roundabout itself as people in Manitowoc had managed to do within 1 day of the thing being open on 310.
I suppose that's about all I have and I'm pretty tired, so I'll wrap up. Oh, also, we changed our clocks back to GMT today. So Wisconsin is only 5 hours behind us for the week until you all change your clocks. So I guess I'll end there. Have a good one and I'll post again next Sunday after Halloween!
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