lists

Things I will miss about London 

1. Obviously, my friends.
1.5 The Old school Yard 

2. Mueller Corners

3. Sainsbury's Hummus

4. How Long the days are here

5. Thai Food...such amazing Thai

6. Being able to go to France for a weekend...or Dublin...or anywhere else in Europe

7. My job.  

8. Tower Bridge...I see it every single day.

9. The most amazing public transportation system in the world

10. Trains

11. Walking on the South Bank at night

12. Spitalfields Market

13. Country Crisp cereal

14. Seeing a man in a full suit, tie, etc lay down in the middle of park on his lunch break

15. Accents....

16. The fact that I can tell someone I am Canadian and GET AWAY WITH IT

17. Amazing Sunsets...4 or 5 days out of every week

18. Chipotle!!! I honestly think it is better than it's American counterpart

19. Friends...and how it is on for at least 2 hours every nights

20. Brits

21. Tea.  Who would have thought?

Things I will NOT miss

1. ASH AND VOLCANOES!

2. Being bombarded by cigarette smoke every time I walk down the street

3. The exchange rate

4. 2p coins

5. coins in general

6. having to call the bathroom the loo. haha. sorry guys. 

7. The windy days...where you have to wear sunglasses to prevent bits of London from getting in your eye

8. Pigeons.  Oh, how I hate pigeons.

9. The fact that no one really makes eye contact as you watch down the street

10. Tourists

11. BBC nightly news.  Without a doubt the most boring thing I have ever seen.

12. The 7 hour time change, though it has been pretty good to me

13. My damn shower.  The worst shower in existence.

14. Having to call a vacuum a 'hoover'

15. My dinosaur of an English mobile phone

16. How far away whole foods is from where I live

17. Britmex

British-American Dictionary

English colloquialisms/phrases/words on the left...the American equivalent on the right

Aubergine: Eggplant

Bint: a whore

Bits and bobs: bits and pieces, random stuff, everything 

Biscuit: a thick, dry, crumbly cookie. But also a cracker of sorts? Cookies don't exist really. See digestive.

Bloke: a dude, chap, guy, etc

Can't be bothered: I don't care enough to do this

Cheeky: Smart ass [me]

Cheeky Monkey: term of endearment for a sarcastic/smart ass [I've been called this by 3 diff colleagues]

Chips: Thick french fries

Cinema: Movie Theater

Courgette: Zucchini!

Crisps: Potato Chips

Digestive: like a thinner cookie meant for dipping in tea?

Dodgy: janky, unsafe, sketchy

Fancy: like, as in "I fancy your face"

Film: a movie

Get it sorted: get your shit together

Git: idiot, fool

Hanging: really hungover

Have a wee: go pee
Hoover: Vacuum cleaner

Jumper: sweater

Kit: all of your sport clothes/stuff

Knickers: underwear

Knackered: tired

Mate: amigo, friend, brah

Mosher: Emo kid

Muppet: idiot, jackass

Nutter: crazy fool

Pants: under-roos!

Pikey: a skanky gypsy-like person...may or may not rob you
Pipe down: shut up your face.

Plaster: band-aid

Pratting around: messing around, tooling around

Power cut: Power Outage

Pupil: student

Queue: a line for something

Quid: slang term for a pound, much like 'buck' is to 'dollar'

Revising: studying/preparing for an exam

Rubbish: Trash, "I am rubbish" = "I suck" 

Slag: Slut

Sod it: F it, Screw it

Taking the piss: make fun of someone

Taking the mick: see above

Tidy up: cleaning up

Tracksuit: sweats

Trainers: running shoes/tennis shoes/sneakers

Trouser: pants! But be careful, British pants are American undergarments.  Confusing, yes.  

Vest: a tank top...see waistcoat for further confusion

Waistcoat: an American vest...something worn by hipsters, or as a part of a suit

You alright?: Normal greeting that replaces the American "how are you?" when you see someone

Time is contagious, Everybody's getting old

Yo Chaz,

I haven't written a legit post to you in a while, and I apologize for that.  So here is an update on the various facets of my life...

• The training for the teachers was postponed from 3 weeks ago to next week.  Ash. 
• I have been working hard with the SSP to hammer out the SPECIFIC details for the programme... Mission Statement, etc.  It takes more energy than running a damn marathon.
• For some reason, I volunteered to participate in a 24-hour Spin-a-thon.  24 hours on a spinning bike...to raise money to send kids to the Singapore youth Olympics.  My experience can be summarized as follows: 8 hours on the saddle, 3 energy drinks, 6 movies, 1 episode of grey's, and 6 episodes of Friends watched, 8 nalgene's of water, 18 pieces of gum, 2 aleve, 4 dirty t-shirts, 90 minutes spent icing my leg, 5 hours sleep, and 103 GBP's raised by yours truly. 
• oh yeah, 3 days of recovery.
• The weather in London has been total shit
• I am officially moving to Boston in August
• I went to Aix en Provence, France.  For a weekend.
• It was epic!!
• Going to Dublin this weekend, the 15th
• Probably going to Scotland the weekend after
• Sarah comes the next weekend after that!
• Chipotle opened in London- we went on opening day and it. was. AWESOME. 
• So far I have been accepted into CSU, SLU, BU, and Tufts.  Interview with Ohio State.  I'm going to Tufts for sure, but it's nice to be wanted. haha. 
• Happy graduation to Mike, Libby, Sarah, Abby, KayDe, Lara, Tim, KP, andddd anyone else? I wish I could be there! Even though all of yours are basically at the same time.
• I have one month and 2 days left in London
• I miss your furry face.  Too much to be socially acceptable. 

Loveth,

Becca

I just spent 12 hours spinning.

Good to know Chaz is just as active.

You'll be at 11 pounds in no time, buddy!

my summer

approximate/tentative summer schedule. ish. 

June 15: Return Stateside

June 17-21: St Louis, MO.

June 21-26: 'rado Summer Life.

June 27-30: Boston, MA. Apartment Quest.

July 1-7: 'rado. Frisbee.

July 4: Setting things on fire, grilling corn on the cob, and other American past times.

July 8-12: Lake Powell, UT. 6 people, 3 dogs, 1 houseboat.

July 13-30: 'rado- sifting through my large quantities of stuff to decide what should be taken to Boston

July 26: Contemplating: The Vegas?

July 30-31: Unspecified location in c'rado.

Aug 3/4-9: road trip entire life to Boston. 

Aug 10-15: Soaking in final moments of the Colorado summer. 

Aug 14-15: Mile High Music Festival. BOOM

Aug 16: CO-MA: only this time, I wont come back.

Aug 20: Orientation

Aug 23: First day of class at Tufts!