Busy couple of days;

Wednesday I went into town to return some things and on the way back I ran into Silvana. We took the bus back to uni together, on the way onto the bus a drunk guy was getting written up by the police. And then he got on the bus with us. He was mumbling to whoever would listen for the entire bus ride. At one point he was singing. He got off at Lancaster with us. It was ridiculous.

"Its hard being English, you don't know how hard it is, I wish it were easy but its hard, I am superior. There's so many foreigners. America is not the place to go. Just shoot me, shoot me then, like john lennon. I'm more English then the fucking queen. The queen is german. Fuck. I'm in so much pain, you don't even know how much pain I'm in. Here. Here. Here." (must be read in the poshest most stereotypical english accent possible)

Then I took a package to the post office, and the lady decided that it would be cheaper in the long run if I added to the box. The box was already barely closing, but I left it there and got some more things to send home, and re-packed it in the post office. With the help of the nice post office lady, we got a bunch of books and stuff into the already full box, and couldn’t get it very close to closing so we added a piece of cardboard, and I spent the next 10 min taping the box. The post office, of course went silent, as I was taping my box, and everyone was staring, I’m pretty sure my box and I became the laughing stock of the Post office. The people there were really nice and really helpful, but I think the US post office is going to laugh when they see this not quite closed very well taped box come through……

Later Chad, Jenna, Dave, and I spent some time just hanging out down the hall, there was a tootsie roll throw and other random activities that should not have been fun, but we were all over sugared and over tired so they were.

Thursday I went to Carlisle with Carolin and her friend Magda. We went to Carlisle Castle, walked around downtown Carlisle, and then took a bus ride up to see Hadrian's wall. It was a good day, and the view from the wall was really georgeous. Of course, I managed to fall off the wall. And on the way back our bus never came, but we eventually found one that would take us back to Carlisle.

And finally today I hung out outside with the flat, we had a pizza picnic, and just talked. When it started to get dark and cold we went inside and cut Shad's hair. Then resumed our tootsie roll toss.

Tomorrow is flat movie day.

So,

Sunblock in this country is sooooooooooo expensive.

That is all. 

The Lake District

Silvana, Carolin and I went to the Lake District today.  We arrived into Windemere, and walked down to the lake, saw some very large swans.  Hung out and planned by the water for a little while. Then we took a boat ride over to Amblesway walked into town there, passed a car boot sale.  Which took me ages to understand.  Its like a garage sale but out of peoples car trunks.  I learn new British customs and words every day.  We had lunch out side at a cute little restaurant, just enjoying the first sunny day we've had in a while.  (I had a duck wrap, I'm not sure when this whole duck thing started, but I kind of like it)  Then we walked toward the bus stop but came across a sign pointing to waterfalls, so we followed that for a little while instead.  It took us up a nice little hill in the woods and past a few little waterfalls it was a really pretty walk.  Then we took an open top double decker bus to Grassmere.  The ride was really lovely, lots of mountains and views of the town from up high, and because it was open top we could see everything.  (though I'm sure that 40 min in the sun only made the sun burn worse).  When we got to Grassmere we walked through a garden and just wandered down a street for a little while before heading back to Windemere to take a train back to Lancaster.  

After we were all completely sun burned (and decided that tomorrow was the designated Sun Block buying day) we headed back to Lancaster and Carolin and I went to pizza hut for one final time before she leaves Lancaster.  I’ll see her a few more times, but that was our last pizza outing.  

I really would like to go back into the lake district and do one of the planned walks they have up through the mountains, they are supposed to have gorgeous views.  I just might do that next week.

It was really nice to get out of Lancaster with really amazing people.  I've been going stir crazy, but I have a couple weeks before I have to start really revising again, and I plan to see things in that time.  

Blackpool!! And other adventures of Erika and Carolin

Carolin and I went to Blackpool today. It was a beautiful, sunny, warm day. Absolutely perfect. We walked barefoot on the beach and went in the Irish Sea, walked on the piers, and went into sea life. All of it was great. I came back slightly sun burned which I'm perfectly fine with because it means I actually saw the sun. Its supposed to rain again tomorrow but at least we got one nice day. It was really nice to get out of Lancaster for the day.

After we'd exhausted all that Blackpool had to offer, we headed back to Lancaster and went up to the Ashton memorial, which by the way is located in a really nice park in Lancaster. (I've been trying to figure out if there was a park here for a while, so needless to say I'm pretty excited about it.) It was full of people, and dogs, and just really nice to be outside and around non-uni people.

We're planning another trip to the Lake District this weekend, and probably going to Carlisle sometime next week. Tomorrow we're getting cheesecake and going to the cinema. I'm really looking forward to that too. Ah, so much to do and only 25 days to do it all. Wow, 25 days, have I mentioned that I'm freaking out about this? No? Well I am.

I'm in an incredibly good mood tonight.