Thursday, September 24 - Footy

I left off with Tuesday i believe?

On Tuesday Andy and I had to go to the city to get our cellphones fixed. I knew that the public transportation was super easy before coming over here but i didn't think it was this easy. I literally have to step outside the gate of my dorms and catch a bus right away, or taxi. It's very nice to have such a convenience. There is also a train available to take to the city or anywhere in England for that matter.

Andy and I kinda wandered around and found it pretty easy which was nice. Got our phones updated/fixed and went to Tesco, the local grocery market here. It's similar to Wallmart except on a smaller scale. They look at it as a Wallmart here but it's too small. Although they have everything a college student needs. We were out to find some hot sauce to spice up the food here and got that. Also bought some Koala Yummies, man have i missed those! We finished up there and walked around to find a bus to take us there. We ended up in Picadilly Garden where all the buses come in and out so we found one to take us home.

Later tuesday night we went out to the Comedy Club. It was pretty good, some not so good, but overall a good time. Us Americans were pointed out and of course we were made fun of but it was all in good laughs. Later we went back to our place for a party. Lot's of people, friends, music and good laughs. It was definitely another good time. I think we ended up going to bed at like 3:30 and slept through some meetings, but they weren't very important.

Yesterday was all about going to the Manchester United game. Andy, Lindsay, Mikael, Koala, Sonia, Elith and i all walked to the game from Uni. It was a 40 min walk and for the most part we kinda knew where we were going. Before going into the stadium we ate outside and had some pretty delicious american burgers. Double bacon cheeseburger was my choice, prime stuff. The security there was amazing, police everywhere. On foot, horse, car, motorcycle. The game we went to was not a big match so i would have loved to see how the security steps up for a big match. We got in and got our seats. They were very nice, i was expecting to be in the nosebleed sections but we ended up being 19 rows back i believe. We met some of the other faculty there, Julian, Phil, Dan, and Louis the cappuccino man. It was a good game, United played the Wolverhamptom Wolves. United won 1-0.

We took a taxi back and went to the Pav again. (You'll notice it's a recurring theme here in my blog to visit the Pav!) I didn't drink but we met up with some people and played some pool there. We then went back to their house and had a party there. Met some more cool people and danced, sang, and did all of that good stuff. Came home at like 2:30 to head off to bed to get up for today's meetings.

At the meetings Julian introduced me a girl who is a snowboarder and told me of an indoor ski and snowboard hill here. Her friend Emma also talked about it and it got me excited to get back to snowboarding again! It's fairly reasonable i believe, about 20 pounds which is like 37 dollars for 3 or 4 hours. A little more expensive here but it's still snowboarding, my passion so anything is good. I might be able to make it out to the Alps this year, cross fingers!

Other then today's meetings i haven't done much. We were gonna play some soccer but didn't have a ball, i think we are getting that all set up for tomorrow though. In an hour or so we'll be at our friends Flat to have a party then go to the _ _ _. (Guesses?

It should be another good night, enjoy yours!

Tomorrow i'll hopefully get my camera and can to begin taking pictures!!