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Sunday, January 25, 2015

My British Family!

                                          Hello!

This weekend was a lazy, work on homework, catch up on sleep one and it was excellent! No trips, so not much to talk about surrounding adventuring. 

However, on Wednesday I got to officially meet my British family, Eric and Pat Whittaker! Unfortunately they were not at the initial meet a family program dinner and to make up for that they invited us to dinner at their house. They were so wonderful and had lots of good stories and advice to tell us. They made us a great dinner full of chicken, potatoes, vegetables, and stuffing and a fabulous fruit crumble and custard to follow with after dinner tea! They also showed us around their house which is 400 years old, older than America! Of course, they have changed the home a little bit- added a wall and some built in furnishings. They also have a collection of clocks which are incredibly interesting. 


Anyways, Here are some things I've noticed through my first few weeks in England:

1. They use military time and date is wrote by day, month, year.
2. There is a lot of PDA in London- especially on the Underground.
3. They flawlessly drive through roundabouts. They are everywhere here and I applaud how smoothly everyone seems to drive through them.
4. Streets are narrow and often times cars will drive in the middle if no one is coming from the other direction. 
5. There is a large amount of diversity.
6. Potatoes. Potatoes can go with anything...they are seen at basically every meal. 
7. Everyone dresses quite nicely, overall. It's wonderful.

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