well the jogging/walking every day did not exactly work out. but hey, i´ll be walking so much once my euro trip starts, so no big deal! instead, i attempted to study while literally getting a bit burnt. who would´ve thought, tanning in england in april? it actually reached 70 for two days, which was amazing. apparently that´s about as hot as it gets here in northern england in the summertime. i´m glad i have much warmer weather at the beach :)
during our 2 weeks of boredom, kristen & i became good friends with the guys who were also left in lancaster. one night kristen and i decided we should show them some american drinking games (you know, beer pong, flip cup, chandelier, screw the dealer, kings, and up the river down the river). they definitely had a great time, and we became best friends with a new guy, cal, who lives on the top floor of our complex. he also has the most amazing movie collection ever--shelf after shelf of dvds, so of course we managed to watch several films and borrow more than just a few. cal also loves to go down to the pond to feed the ducks so we did that a couple times too. the baby ducklings were adorabe, and the nests that the other birds/swans sat on were HUGE. they were like dinosaur size.
another night one of the chinese boys on our hall cooked us a hot pot, which is when there´s a large pot and it has spices and chilli and beans in this piping hot liquid broth. you then throw in a bunch of random food, and it cooks in the heated pot in the center of the table. we were eating beef (which looked like strips of bacon), lamb, lettuce, japanese noodles, fish eggs, fish sausages, mushrooms... and it was so good! there were 13 or 14 of us and we would all rotate seats after about 20 minutes. and the boy said typically the chinese eat for 5 hours; we only ate for 2, but there was still food left! i learned how to play poker (or maybe it was texas hold ém?) with all of the boys after the dinner. sad to say i didn´t win, no surprise there!
the day before kristen and i left for our euro trip, dom (a boy on our floor) wanted to have a proper barbeque, american style, you know burgers and what not. well, it turned out to be an all day attempt! the boys went into town to buy the burgers (and we´re in england so of course we needed to have sausages as well), and kristen and i went down to the pond where the grills are located, to snag a table. we thought we were all set, until realizing you need a key to use 1 of the 4 grills. 1 was in use, the other 3 were vacant, but we found out that 2 were broken and the other key was already taken for the day and it hadn´t been returned in order for us to use it. our only other option was to wait for the one in use, which was being occupied by chinese students, and if they take 5 hours to eat, we weren´t going to start cooking til after sunset. so we all moved everything back inside, and after the failure of the first kitchen, the second kitchen had working grills and we ate outside in the courtyard...so it turned out to be a modified bbq. oh, one thing, they don´t know how to have proper burgers. they think a burger and a bun will suffice. no no, if only they knew of the bacon cheeseburger with lettuce tomato and pickles!
during our 2 weeks of boredom, kristen & i became good friends with the guys who were also left in lancaster. one night kristen and i decided we should show them some american drinking games (you know, beer pong, flip cup, chandelier, screw the dealer, kings, and up the river down the river). they definitely had a great time, and we became best friends with a new guy, cal, who lives on the top floor of our complex. he also has the most amazing movie collection ever--shelf after shelf of dvds, so of course we managed to watch several films and borrow more than just a few. cal also loves to go down to the pond to feed the ducks so we did that a couple times too. the baby ducklings were adorabe, and the nests that the other birds/swans sat on were HUGE. they were like dinosaur size.
another night one of the chinese boys on our hall cooked us a hot pot, which is when there´s a large pot and it has spices and chilli and beans in this piping hot liquid broth. you then throw in a bunch of random food, and it cooks in the heated pot in the center of the table. we were eating beef (which looked like strips of bacon), lamb, lettuce, japanese noodles, fish eggs, fish sausages, mushrooms... and it was so good! there were 13 or 14 of us and we would all rotate seats after about 20 minutes. and the boy said typically the chinese eat for 5 hours; we only ate for 2, but there was still food left! i learned how to play poker (or maybe it was texas hold ém?) with all of the boys after the dinner. sad to say i didn´t win, no surprise there!
the day before kristen and i left for our euro trip, dom (a boy on our floor) wanted to have a proper barbeque, american style, you know burgers and what not. well, it turned out to be an all day attempt! the boys went into town to buy the burgers (and we´re in england so of course we needed to have sausages as well), and kristen and i went down to the pond where the grills are located, to snag a table. we thought we were all set, until realizing you need a key to use 1 of the 4 grills. 1 was in use, the other 3 were vacant, but we found out that 2 were broken and the other key was already taken for the day and it hadn´t been returned in order for us to use it. our only other option was to wait for the one in use, which was being occupied by chinese students, and if they take 5 hours to eat, we weren´t going to start cooking til after sunset. so we all moved everything back inside, and after the failure of the first kitchen, the second kitchen had working grills and we ate outside in the courtyard...so it turned out to be a modified bbq. oh, one thing, they don´t know how to have proper burgers. they think a burger and a bun will suffice. no no, if only they knew of the bacon cheeseburger with lettuce tomato and pickles!
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