First Day in Britain
I only have 25 minutes b/c it's costing me $2 to play for 1/2 an hour, so I'll have to wait until Friday night to tell you the joys of flying. Tobias was totally right! I mean, yeah plane crashes are scary and there's no real safety net, but considering how it's safer than car travel, and how super fun and amazing it is, seriously you all have to try it if you haven't. Even if it's for an hour or two, it's still totally awesome.
I've only had about 4 or 5 hours of sleep within the past 48 hours. I've made a few friends here, a couple are teaching at Manchester U and he's American, a British woman whose name I didn't get who helped me out so tremendously! She is the sweetest person I have met and she actually came looking for me after we left the gates. I hope she knows how tremendously thankful I am to her. I also met this PhD student, who looks as young as I do, and she actually traveled with me to the hostel. I have her address and will add her to my my myspace .
I am suffering major culture shock. It's not the kind where you're "Dude! This is so awesome!" It's more like, "OMG! It's so big, and so stressful. Can I go home now?" LOL, j/k. I mean, I was raised in a rural area, so being thrown into a big city is sort of shocking. However, I just need to relax for a while b/c I'm usually this high strung about a lot of things.
I know I'll get better once I make it to Durham. It's just all the uncertainty. Being in a big, strange place where I can only really depend on myself b/c while North England is nicer than South England (they do everything opposite of America), you still have to act confident and that you know what you're doing. I apologize for the spelling errors...typing on a British keyboard, LOL.
I went to the Manchester Art Museum today and it's one of the few things here that are free. It's pretty neat to see all the different kinds of artwork. They have some dramatic portraits of Shakespearean characters and nearby is a mural of humanized cats running around Manchester to show the nightlife of the city. There's even this giant brush with a sign claiming that it could hold a man's weight, but the sign near it says "don't sit on it". Hmmm...still, it's an interesting place and it's in the China Town district of the area (who knew England had China Towns)?
I've only had about 4 or 5 hours of sleep within the past 48 hours. I've made a few friends here, a couple are teaching at Manchester U and he's American, a British woman whose name I didn't get who helped me out so tremendously! She is the sweetest person I have met and she actually came looking for me after we left the gates. I hope she knows how tremendously thankful I am to her. I also met this PhD student, who looks as young as I do, and she actually traveled with me to the hostel. I have her address and will add her to my my myspace .
I am suffering major culture shock. It's not the kind where you're "Dude! This is so awesome!" It's more like, "OMG! It's so big, and so stressful. Can I go home now?" LOL, j/k. I mean, I was raised in a rural area, so being thrown into a big city is sort of shocking. However, I just need to relax for a while b/c I'm usually this high strung about a lot of things.
I know I'll get better once I make it to Durham. It's just all the uncertainty. Being in a big, strange place where I can only really depend on myself b/c while North England is nicer than South England (they do everything opposite of America), you still have to act confident and that you know what you're doing. I apologize for the spelling errors...typing on a British keyboard, LOL.
I went to the Manchester Art Museum today and it's one of the few things here that are free. It's pretty neat to see all the different kinds of artwork. They have some dramatic portraits of Shakespearean characters and nearby is a mural of humanized cats running around Manchester to show the nightlife of the city. There's even this giant brush with a sign claiming that it could hold a man's weight, but the sign near it says "don't sit on it". Hmmm...still, it's an interesting place and it's in the China Town district of the area (who knew England had China Towns)?
posted by Novice Novelist | 2:14 PM
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