Yes it is true, i'm still cameraless. My mom gave me the tracking number to find it and apparently it was attempted to be delivered on September 18th. I gotta do some more research so until then, still no more pictures!
Thursday night was pretty fun. Like i said we were going to our friends flat to go hangout and drink there. We played a new game they created called "Pass the alcoholic parcel". It pretty much follows the rules of a childrens game they play here where a gift is placed in a box and wrapped with wrapping paper many times. You take turns passing the box around until the music stops and you peel back one layer of the wrapper. Then it goes again until the music stops and so on until there is no more wrapping paper and that person gets what's in the box. So the alcohol version is the same except inbetween each layer of paper is a post-it that says something like "take a shot", "finish your drink", or "add to the pint". There are numerous "add to the pint" post-it and usually towards the end one person picks the "drink the pint" post-it. Our pint thursday night consisted of wine, vodka, Strongbow, and i'm sure other things and the guy who had to drink it couldn't and kinda made a mess. I was well intoxicated at that point and decided to finish it and don't remember tasting it at all. It's a game that lasted pretty long and was fun. I'm supposed to bring it back with me to the states. (One of the girls even created a facebook group to make sure it goes global so look for it if you so desire!)
After the game we ventured into the city to go to some club. At this state i had drank a good amount of vodka and was feeling on top of the world. We took a taxi and went to a club i later found out was falled 42nd street. Or something like that, (i still don't know it apparently). We got in and went straight to the bar and no one had money, but me! Got some drink and went dancing. Don't remember much of it, just know we were dancing! Got home somehow after some difficulty and had a great night.
I get to sleep at like 5 that night i'm pretty sure, only to wake up at 9 to get to the student fair. I initially thought it only went from 10-12 because that's what my syllabus said. I even set my alarm to make sure i wouldnt sleep through it. It turns out it went to 5 that night, so 4 hours of sleep could have been many more! Anyways i met Mikael there and we walked around. They fill you up with flyers and useless paper there, which all ends up on the ground. (Which leads me to say that the ground here is covered in garbage. There is litter everywhere. I don't know if this is a manchester thing or something else but you can't go 2 feet before seeing garbage on the ground). I signed up for Ski and snowboard club, basketball, and football (soccer).
Later on Friday Mikael and i went to play football with some local guys here. At first i was pretty intimidated and didn't want to play because 1) i love the sport but i've never played in a real league so i'm not very good and 2) this is their countries sport, everyone here plays it, so my thoughts were that they all were going to be extremely good. We get there and it's, what i thought to be, a bunch of foul mouth construction workers. And i think i was right but i had an amazing time playing with them. I picked it up really fast and our team ended up winning. I had two shots on goal, both of them should have been made, but i still feel like i learned a lot. We will be playing with them every friday i believe, or at least i hope!
After soccer i went over to the flat and watched The Devil Wears Prada with Mikael, Sarah, Kathryn, and Gemma. Assuming it was a chick flick, and it was, it actually wasn't too bad. It wasn't as bad as The Women or The House Bunny, both terrible movies i've seem to seen with a majority of girls. I came back after that and watched 21 with Lindsay. I liked that one much better! I'll be practicing my card counting soon and will be winning lots of money!
Saturday Mikael, Lindsay, Andy and I went to downtown Manchester to watch the United game on tv. We found a pub, but no united game. No one was broadcasting it though. I ate a really good meal called bangers and mash. (Thanks Gemma) It consisted of mash potatoes, with 3 sausages (bangers) covered in gravy and onions, and served with peas. Oh so good! I still have yet to have fish and chips, maybe soon. We walked around for quite awhile after lunch. Walked past The Oyster which I later found out is the oldest pub in Manchester. Somewhere i have to visit before i leave!
Saturday night i went out with Andy to the Pav and had a drink there. Played English pool and kinda just hung out. It was a pretty low key night.
Sunday was also pretty low key. Had to go to the grocery store so i could finally start eating. I would have loved to weigh myself a few days ago cause i felt so skinny and unhealthy. I realized i can't be stingy with my money for food. I'm not gonna go crazy and spend it all but i figure i might as well eat some! I think us Americans are gonna go out once a week for a new restaurant so we can just try some of the food here and get a good feel for new places. So when we come back again we know where to eat.
After the grocery store I came back and made my first home made meal here, spaghetti with hamburger sauce and a salad. Oh it tasted so so good. Sunday night was Koala's birthday so i helped celebrate it with him. I got drunk off some real fun games. 1st game of the night. Everyone get's 2 or 3 dice and 1 person calls off what to get and you slam your dice down and turn them over till they match up with what was called. Last person to get it has to take a drink. For example i call out 1 three and 2 fours. Last person to get it and clap has to drink. 2nd game we played consists of liquids (vodka, water, lemonade, anything that is drinkable) and cards. Everyone grabs a card and doesn't look at it. Put it on your forehead so everyone else can see. You then go in a circle adding what you want to the bowl depending on how you feel about your card. The lowest card has to drink whatever was in the bowl. Koala (birthday boy) was showing a 2 and so his bowl consisted of quite a bit of vodka and a little lemonade, until it came to me when i added my cup of baileys and milk. Poor guy saw that come up this morning. 3rd game is too difficult to explain over the internets so ask me in person or on the phone and i'll explain. It too also gets you drunk. To top off the night we had a huge cake fight and everyone got messy, including the room. I say it was one of my more finer Sunday nights while here at Manchester.
Today, monday, was my first day of class! I didn't have it until 1 so i was able to sleep in until 12. I had a nutrition lecture which went for a few hours. Just kinda talked about absorption and intro stuff. It's a class in which i've already taken back at Winona so i'm not too worried about it. Basically just a review. Should be fun though!
Played a little bit of football today with Koala, James, Mikael, and Andy before going out for a movie. We went to the most amazing mall I've ever been in. Just check out some of the pictures out at google http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=trafford%20center&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi
They have marble flooring everywhere. Terraces, gardens, ponds, fountains. It's gorgeous. We went to the theater there and watched District 9. It's about aliens that land over earth and stay there. The South African government takes care of them but gets sick of taking care of them so they start moving them and they get all pissed off. One of the guys gets sick and both sides are fighting over him. I won't explain too much but if you liked Independence Day, you might like this. It's not as good but it's comparable. Tomorrow i have class at 1 but i gotta continue catching up on sleep.
This was a long one, i promise to keep them shorter for next time!
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