Brandy Alexander

Hi. Alive.

I was without the internet for a whooooooole week. I thought it would be tricky for me, but apparently I can live without it afterall. Who knew?

So where to begin...

Well the flight was a bit of an annoyance. Not as bad as Susan's domestic flight to JFK, but still not glamorous. The flight was delayed an hour, which wasn't great, but I lived. The demographics seemed to be old and french. I don't know why the retirees of Paris all chose my flight to come to England, but they did. I ended up sitting beside someone interesting; Lubka, my old boss from Sears. Not just Lubka... but Lubka's hideous, horrid, noisey, smelly, stupid looking, scrunched up faced, icky, potentialess, spoiled, child. Apparently shortly after I left Sears she had found out she was preggo. woops. Poor mister lubka. Fortunately we did not converse too much, and mostly pretended that neither of us existed. Also BA gives a LOT of freeeee wine.

I didn't sleep on the flight as I had wanted to. When I got to heathrow I felt like crap. Then the evil lady at customs decided that Bethany didn't deserve noodles. Fortunately I changed her mind; they had travelled with me across and ocean therefore I was not parting with them yet! They also found it odd that I wanted to go to Leicester. I suppose it isn't the most thrilling English city, but it seems fairly nice.

I first went to Bath where I met Alex who I have known for 5 or so years. He didn't show me too much of Bath because he was still moving in (I had to sleep on the floor cause the spare bed had not come yet) but we still tiddled about. Went to eat quite a bit. Had me some wine... and stuff... We'll do the city later.

That friday night we went to what I call Bethany's perfect club night; allll sappy power ballads. It was disappointing that Bethany wasn't present, but I'm sure the club will do it again; there seemed to be a feel of sappy night regulars.

Saturday I went to Bristol to go shopping. I bought the first and second series of Skins since we can't get it at home and I thought it fitting to get that series seeing as it was based in AND filmed in Bristol. We went to a GIANT shopping centre. Not giant because of it's ammount of stores, but because of how spread out it was; an observation I have made about pretty much all structures and urban planning in England so far.

Sunday I went into London really late for a birthday present! (yay) We went and saw The Noisettes in concert. We really only went there, watched, and came back, so I will have to do London again later before I leave or else my trip will be very very very lame.

Monday I finally came to Leicester. We've really only gone to the grocery store, but it seems nice. We got three bottles of wine for 9 pound. They're sitting right behind the computer. They're watching me type, comments Bethany from behind.

Umm... not much else to really say. I swear things have been more adventurous than that. We've already made cultural observations! Most working class people seem to want to be dead as they move at a snails pace when working, and look like zombies; particularily the ones Morrisons (grocery store). It reminded me of watching Jenn work at safeway before; and made me nostalgic of Sears.

Tomorrow we're having a traditional English breakfast that Bethany will be making before her and Susan go off to class. I'll likely watch the leaders debate in English and mayyybe in French if I so please; I've gotten so disconnected from Canadian news and politics the last week that news of the English cabinet shuffle made me giddy - even though it was just quackery.

This weekend while Beth and Suse are in Bath, I shall be in Lincoln with Alex to see his family. From there I'm off to Liverpool and then Manchester to visit Nathan. Should be good. I'll blog and have photos then.

Lots of love

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