Now for Something Completely Different

Now as I have had time to sleep and my jet lag is waining, I have begun to notice little differences around the place. There is obviously a heavy accent. Also, we finally found a store that sold school supplies, and they have only either 4 ring or 2 ring binders... totally crazy. The Chinese food is also very different, which doesn't make a whole lot of sense. I have no new pictures to post.

I have certainly tried to do the English diet thing. Last night I had fish and chips for dinner at a local pub. That same pub informed us they will be having a 4th of July party, which is probably not very patriotic for them but makes good monetary sense since there is about 50 Americans living across the street. The pinnacle so far though of my English dining experience is that today for lunch, I ate kidney pie. It was not bad. One guy got it, and then when I explained to him that it was not composed of kidney beans but the actual organ, he looked like he had to hold it back.

Anyway thats the update.

We've Arrived!

This is where we are living. Ours is the one with the light on.

This is a lawn mower with a Taz doll on it. The interesting thing about it is that at Cambridge only Fellows (professors) are allowed to walk on the grass. So, I am not allowed on but Taz is on it.

Well after about 9 hours in the air, 4 hours on a bus, and 3 minutes in a cab we have arrived in Cambridge. So far, England looks fairly similar to the US. There are some minor differences in asthetics. One of which is that there seem to be cows in very random places. We passed a small grouping of them in Cambridge. No classes are going on right now (other than ours), but Cambridge is still bustling. The weather is in the high 50s and low 60s pretty much throughout the day. It rains a lot here. It is mostly light I have yet to see a heavy rain. The accommodations are Spartan. We share 1 shower with the entire house. When we signed up for the program we expected to share it with at the most 2 other people. Some people have showers in there rooms, yet we all paid the same fee for rooms. Oh well. The food is not that bad especially for cafeteria type dining. What they call bacon looks and tastes quite like country ham. For lunch I had chili con carne. It was pretty good since I never expected to see that in England. It was however the first time I had eaten chili with clove in it. Finally, the people here are very polite. Those of us from the Hospitality State have nothing on them.

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Since I had to figure out how to post photos, I figured these shots from a Hawaii sunset would be nice. All of these photographs were taken by me. Feel free to use these photographs in any not for profit use.

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