 | RADIO SHOW!!
2009-02-15, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | So I just went to training about my radio show at Keele.
In BG training for the station took a whole semester. We had to take a pretty intense exam, go to class a whole month, and have about 12 hou... |
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 | Gladstone Pottery Museum
2009-02-15, Longton, United Kingdom. By: lydian | | Today my British Cultural Studies class went on a field trip to Gladstone Pottery Museum, one of the very few surviving remnants of the old pottery industry in the area. Back in the day, pottery was ... |
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 | Places in the UK, and What They Remind Me Of
2009-02-10, London, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | - London Bridge: "London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down..." (children's rhyme)
- Gloucester: "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain..." (as above)
- Buckingham Pal... |
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| Hot Doctopus
2009-02-14, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | That was the name coined for the Hot Dog Octopi I made for dinner last night. It was one of those glorious moments when I realized that I'm a grown woman, there's no reason I can't take the frankfurte... |
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 | What a piece of work is man
2009-02-06, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | Stratford-upon-Avon, of course, is all about Shakespeare. I saw where he lived, where his father lived, where Anne Hathaway lived, and where his daughter lived, all of them original Tudor era houses. ... |
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| Good News Everyone!
2009-02-13, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Ok, maybe it's only good news for my household, but ah well.
First off, the cleaning lady finally came. Remember when I mentioned the ludicrous amount of trash after our famously successful dinner ... |
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| Ultimate Frisbee
2009-02-10, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Have I mentioned here that I joined ultimate frisbee? Well I totally did. I've discovered that I'm pretty good at both throwing and catching the frisbee, however when somebody runs at me I tend to pan... |
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| Liverpool, I left you
2009-02-09, Liverpool, United Kingdom. By: lydian | | Most people know only one thing about Liverpool: the Beatles. After visiting this fine city, I can assure you that it has many additional good qualities.
The trip started on Saturday morning, catc... |
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| You're taking a bus to LA?
2009-02-09, Liverpool, United Kingdom. By: katy | | LIVERPOOL!
Amazingly fun. Pretty much I had the most culturally diverse day and a half ever. I went with Ally, Heather, Kristin, and Caroline(The Americans) and Magdalaina (the Canadian) and Laura ... |
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 | The Beginning
2009-02-08, Scotland, United Kingdom. By: efrench | | I'm going to try to keep these short so that you don't get too bored, but if you have any questions or want to know more, just let me know!
I arrived in Edinburgh on Monday afternoon and promptly t... |
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 | Love and science
2009-02-04, Oxford, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | In Oxford I went to the museum of the history of science, and that's where I fell in love.
The object of my sudden passion was a circular golden disc, with mysterious curved layers and curling embe... |
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 | Living the joke at last
2009-02-01, Cambridge, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | I had the most wonderful time with T & T in Cambridge. The very first thing they did was hand me a glove puppet of a dinosaur and a small wooden set of Tokyo building blocks and asked me if I would li... |
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| DINNER PARTY AT HOUSE SIX!!!
2009-02-06, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom. By: katy | | So while our box house is sub-par on many levels, we do have a lot of space, and a pretty nice kitchen. Well, kind of an antiquated kitchen, but it works.
So what does that mean?!?
DINNER PARTY... |
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 | All set to go!
2009-02-03, London, United Kingdom. By: ryanemily | | We have exactly: 13 hours till our flight leaves from Heathrow for Nairobi! We are both incredibly nervous yet excited at the same time. Having had a really nice last two days of snow, we say goodbye ... |
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 | cheeky moolah
2009-02-03, Guatemala City, Guatemala, United Kingdom. By: jomatt | | Hi everyone,
Hope you are all well and wrapped up warm - we´ve heard about how chilly it has been!
Now that we’re really stuck in to working at El Castillo it has dawned on us how little time we... |
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 | I put some pictures up!
2009-02-02, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom. By: Katy | | Currently my camera is having some issues, so in order to put pics up I've had to steal Ally's. The pictures are of a lovely day trip to Stoke on Trent that Lydia, Ally and I went on Saturday.
Enj... |
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 | Monoliths and bus-related misadventure
2009-01-30, Salisbury, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | Having at last managed to leave Brighton, I went to Salisbury, a small modern town with frighteningly ancient buildings. It's one thing to see a cathedral that was built 800 years ago, it's quite anot... |
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| KFC
2009-01-31, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom. By: Katy | | "Do they have KFC in America?" -Harj
Random side note, KFCs in England do not have biscuits.
I guess that's all I have to say. |
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| Poundland and Identity Angst
2009-01-31, Newcastle under Lyme, United Kingdom. By: lydian | | For the past week, my shelf has been short a few items (this is an observation, not a witty metaphor). Yesterday Katy and I took the bus into Newcastle so that I could buy necessary things. She had ... |
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| Not only a foreigner, but bright as well!
2009-01-30, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom. By: Katy | | Sadly that statement was not directed at me, but towards my American sister in 'English Radicals and Writers' class. I'm very proud of her though, for surprising the professor with her ability to read... |
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 | Disaster and enforced relaxation
2009-01-29, Brighton, United Kingdom. By: zilla | | There's something I haven't been telling you.
I lost my credit card.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGRRRRGHH!
In Paris, I had it. When I arrived in Brighton, it was gone. I have no idea wh... |
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| Differences between the US and the UK
2009-01-28, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom. By: Katy | | 1. They put baked beans on EVERYTHING.
2. They have hair straighteners in some public restrooms
3. Paper is bigger, so it won't fit in the lovely notebooks I brought from home. ARGH.
4. There is ve... |
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