I wish all my friends from home could come explore London with me.

M&M World London.

Its a tape tape dispenser.

This ones for you Dad.

The cutest box of matches.

Abby and I in front
of Big Ben!

The Language Barrier

    My Mother told me I need to post more things, so I thought I would write about the language barrier. Yes I know they still speak English here but there are a lot of differences that I am still trying to figure out.

1. An A4. One of my teachers this week, while reading through the syllabus, told us we should get an A4 and than proceeded to talk about it for quite awhile before I caught on that he was talking about a three ring binder. Don't ask me why they call it and A4 because I have no idea.
2. The WC. I almost gave up finding the bathroom the other day because all there was was a sign above a door that said WC. Than I remembered that the English call the restroom the water closet (WC). And if not that than it is the toilet. If you ask for the bathroom or restroom here they look at you very funny.
3. The ground floor. Not just here but all over Europe they would say that what we call the first floor is actually the ground floor, and the first floor is what we would consider the second floor. So in the building where I live I am on the fifth floor but really I am six floors up, and if you want to go to the basement you must press the button that says -1.
4. F verse C. I was talking to some Norwegian friends the other day and asked them if they were exited for it to warm up this week. They asked how much and I said it is suposed to be in the forties this week! There mouths dropped and than I remembered 40 degrees Fahrenheit is like 105 dagrees Celsius.
5. Pounds. It is very hard to go shopping here because you see the price and it says 4 but thats not 4 dollars its 4 pounds witch is equal to about six dollars. So I keep thinking I'm finding really good deals until I convert it. Plus can I just say they have way to many coins. They have a 1 pence/cent coin, a 2 pence coin, a 5 pence coin, a 10 pence coin, a 20 pence coin, a 50 pence coin, a 1 pound coin, and a 2 pound coin. Do you know how much change you end up caring around and how confusing it is to than figure out how much each coin is worth so you can actually use them.
6. Weird words. The Britts also use just some plain old weird/funny terminology that I some times have truble not laughing at. Such as dodgy witch means kind of scary, or they call the card you use to get around on the tube with an Oyster card. They aslo seem to like the word top a lot, to topup something means to put more money on a card, they are a bunch of shops with the name top including a big chain store thats kind of like Forever 21 called The Top Shop.
Thats all the big ones I can think of for now but i will try to keep thinking of more and keep you updated on any new words I come across.

I ordered steak and this is what came... ham.
I know chips mean french fries here, but I had
no idea steak means ham. 

This is Tony waiting for the bus and although
it may not look like it, that is snow in the
background! Once again I was very exited. 

The Tube

 The underground  here in London is also called the Tube. And yesterday I learned you should never try to take the Tube during rush hour on Friday afternoon. This picture dose not even come close to capturing the amount of people all trying to squish onto one train. It was ridiculous and all those people made it so stuffy once they closed the doors I really thought someone was going to pass out. Check out the clip of this English Comedian talking about the Tube its really funny and totally true!

I had to post this just because it is the
cutest idea for lights I have ever seen.

      I knew food was going to be different here but who knew it could be so funny. The first plate you see looks delicious and it was, the second time they made it. The first time however the meat was literally as hard as a rock. I couldn't cut through it so I tried picking it up and biting into it. I am pretty sure I would have chipped a tooth before i made a dent. Finally after a friend couldn't even saw through it I asked the waitress if it was supposed to be like this? She apologized and brought me a new one so I guess the answer was no. The other picture is of a can of peaches I bought at the store not thinking about the fact that I don't have a can opener. So how do you get into a can with out a  can opener you ask... pliers! Thats right a stabbed a hole in the top and than slowly started pealing back the metal. I was pretty proud of my self that it actually worked. My roommate thought it was hilarious and thoroughly enjoyed watching me try to get into the can. 

Snow!

The view from my window last night....

And than the side walk this morning. 

   


     It snowed! Its a little hard to see but the snow was really coming down last night. And accumulated to about 2 inches on the ground this morning, unfortunately some of it had already started to turn to slush. I was very exited to see the snow, however getting sprayed with slush by a double-decor bus on the the way home from the store was not as exiting. Now everyone is hoping the slush won't turn into ice tonight and make it a nightmare to get around Monday morning.