Right then, onward

So the fiasco got addressed (yay) and I won’t describe it here in detail but it was a lot of shenanigans of people who are old enough to know better but too young to care about what they ought to be doing when they think no one is watching.  In any case, it’s been addressed and hopefully won’t be repeated.

Meanwhile, since I didn’t get to bed until about 4am Saturday morning I more or less slept until noon and then got up, cleaned my room and unpacked, did reading and a load of laundry (which is £1.30 / machine / load which = £2.60/load to wash and dry for anyone making budgets on their future trip).  Then I made some late lunch – let me tell you now the English version of Spaghetti-O’s is actually worse than the American version by more than you would think possible, my advice is: avoid (but the Ritz Crackers are the same, even though they don’t come in sleeves, they are just chucked in the bag in the box like chips usually are at home).

After some more reading and the meeting thing, Alex, Claire, Lisa Rose, and I all went to get something to eat because we were all starving.  We detoured to the grocery store (Sainsbury’s – whose owner was in the news recently for their large charitable donation to the arts over here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11274399 ) and picked up a few things.  Alex and Claire wanted to go out for Indian Food, which is too spicy for Lisa Rose or me for that matter, but we saw on their menu (that is another great thing here, btw, places post their menu in the windows of the establishment to browse before you come in and sit down – with prices usually) said that they gave a student discount of 10% Sunday-Thursday, so we got food from one of the food coaches instead (Posh Nosh – actually quite good and sanitary looking as well).  I got chicken nuggets and onion rings for just under £5 so that was good! 

We came back, ate, watched V for Vendetta, talked for a bit, then went to bed around 2am – which none of us could figure out how it had gotten so late on us! 

Today (Sunday) I was up around 10, did some reading and had lunch (Heinz Vegetable soup, tastes just like you’d expect canned soup to taste; recommended, available at Sainsbury) and then got a latte and muffin to video chat with Bruno for some quality time – I got him to sign up for Facebook too finally (lol) – via Gmail googlechat which is much easier to use than anything else we looked into and doesn’t take up the bandwidth that Skype does.

[this post comes to you one day delayed by an internet interruption in the building Sunday night]