Updates from UEA

That child is so stinkin' adorable!! How about that little boy (Damien?)...seen any more of him?

Bo, I want to hear all about this ISS! way to go! I got detention once in highschool because I didn't turn in my driver's ed homework, and cried so hard they let me have "private detention" with Ms. Gibb's before school started so I didn't have to sit with all the "bad" kids. How does it feel to be a bad kid now?

Things are going well over here, classes are in full swing. I have a crush on my Modernism professor. His name is Jeremy, and he doesn't look any older that 23 or 24. But he has a PhD. He does Gertrude Stein and T.S. Eliot impressions (which are HORRIBLE) and can never figure out how to turn the lights on or off. He's very charming. Unfortunately he's only my professor for lecture, I have a different teacher for my modernism seminar, who has long, thinning black hair and an abnormally long torso and wears really ugly maroon shirts. He's nice and funny too, but not quite as fun to look at.

My nights here are becoming very tame. Usually Dom, Richard and I curl up on my bed with some sort of chocolate and watch "The Inbetweeners" online. It's a British show that kids are addicted to over here, and it's hysterical. About these 4 boys in high school who are definitely not cool but not quite total losers either, and they get into lots of trouble. Connor, you would like it a lot. Youtube "The Inbetweeners" and watch from season 1. very funny.

Mama, you would be so proud of how domestic I'm becoming! Okay, I still can't keep my room clean to save my life, but I'm a great cook now! And I do the "washing up" every night. It's not called "Doing the dishes" over here, and the dish soap is called "Washing up liquid."

Poor Kara has become the butt of all the jokes. They steal her all the time and hang her from things and make jokes about "The Silence of the Lambs." Sometimes I get ransom notes. Luckily I found out Richard has a little stuffed dog named "Digby" or something like that, which I plan on stealing as soon as he leaves his door unlocked.

My toilet broke the other day. It wouldn't flush. Luckily before it broke there was only pee in it, so I didn't have to deal with that. But it took two days for maintenence to come fix it, and you know what a small bladder I have. I had to walk to campus everytime I needed a bathroom. Some of the flatmates invited me to use their "loo", but I can't pee when someone else is listening. Very awkward. All fixed now though, so I can pee at my leisure.

That seems to be mostly it. Kelsey has booked her ticket and is coming on the 21st! We're probably going to go to Ireland together once she gets here, and then spend another weekend in London before she has to go back to Paris. She's telling me lots of stories from Paris and the french are SNOBS. She can't wait to get out. They're so mean to her and hate Americans. Also, it's not anything like the MaryKate and Ashley movie "Passport to Paris," which she finds incredibly dissapointing.

love you all! I got a wonderful card from Grady this morning! So the trans-atlantic mail service does work, in case that's what's stopping you from writing.
XOXO