Here is some verbiage for all you verbetarians. Today, I'm going to try and talk to you about what there is here and what isn't here. So bear with me. Oh, and click continue reading, too.
First and foremost, there are no Chips! Ahoy cookies. Although I knew this, I never realized that I would be craving Chips! Ahoy cookies like a pregnant woman.
Also, I am pregnant.
Just kidding. The lack of Chips! Ahoy (I hope you are saying Chips! really loud because there is an exclamation point) is made up with the addition of Maryland cookies. They're not QUITE as good, but they hold me down.
There's something else here called "Flapjack." I always thought that flapjacks were pancakes or something like that. So I'm eating this thing and I have no idea how to react to it. I think its like a granola bar? I look at the ingredients and one of the major ingredients was something called "Hydrogenated rape oils." Of course, I read this AFTER I've eaten the thing and now I fear that some rapist will be attracted to the rape oil scent I am giving off and will waft him/herself over and hydrogenately rape me.
They have Febreze here, thank everything that is holy. But it's like liquid gold here. Completely and outrageously expensive. Why wash clothes when you have Febreze? I know, at Albright, laundry is free now. That is so whack, them doing that when I leave. Here, laundry is 2 pounds for washing and a pound for drying, so thats three pounds which is about 6 bucks! You can imagine how amazingly bad I smell.
Baby wipes are in huge supply and stock here because so many people have white shoes and so many more play futbol. And the greatest way to keep your shoes shiny and nice looking is to baby wipe them! If its good enough to wipe babies away, then it must be good enough for my shoes. And it is!
The library here closes at 10 PM. I think that is kind of rubbish. School libraries should be open until midnight. But the library here is really cool. Its got about five or six floors, depending on how you count floors. Because here, the ground floor is NOT the first floor. There is a ground floor, then a first floor, then second and so on and so forth. I think that is ridiculous becaues if a guy fell from a sixth floor window (in UK terms), he would have then fallen six floors...to the ground...wait, that makes sense. But I swear I had this worked out in my head. WHATEVER, as I was saying, school library here = closes at 10 but it closes at 8 on Fridays! That's insane! Then again, the pub life here is really lively.
I'd have done a video blog today but my throat isn't feeling up to it. Got a bit of the "Fresher's flu" as it's dubbed. Well, I hope you guys are having a good time wherever you are. Leave questions if you have any!
I am going to go and try to make this whole 'floors' thing make sense to me.
Hydrogenatingly,
Salaam
