 | GOING HOME TOMORROW
2009-06-12, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | I had a great time in England, but I am super excited to be going home.
Things I will miss:
All day breakfast
My new international friends
Having practically no class time in a week
Cadbury
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| These are probably the best steaks... in London!!
2009-06-07, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Ok, I had a hugely eventful London trip with Lydia for the past few days.
Pretty much I am the queen of London now. I feel that in 8 days I now know everything there is to know about the city, and ... |
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| KUBE 24 HOUR BROADCAST
2009-06-02, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Oh good heavens.
Yesterday, starting at 9:30 in the morning, I was volunteering for the Kube charity broadcast.
See, for 24 hours two djs (Georgie and Nick)stay on air and try to make money for... |
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| Keele Lawns and summer
2009-05-31, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | I've just got a few more days before Lydia and I are off on another traveling adventure. The past few days have been fun, my friend Lin was visiting, so by hanging out with some of her friends I avoi... |
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| EXAMS ARE DONE!
2009-05-28, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | So I finished my last exam yesterday. YES! I think I did pretty good, I certainly didn't embarrass myself or anything. Tonight is Steve's goodbye party as tomorrow he is heading back to Canada. Also, ... |
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| People are leaving and I am sad
2009-05-26, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Yesterday my dear friend Scott, my brother within the absurd Hardy family, left us for his Canadian homeland. It was a sad day. We tried to have a sort of picnic (aka, eat Easter candy that just reach... |
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| I got my first essay back!
2009-05-20, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | My first essay is returned. The score? 68.
Don't freak out, English people grade differently. A 70 is an A, and it's almost impossible to get over a 70. According to my professor, my essay was "ver... |
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| Ok, explanation of British exams
2009-05-18, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | All righty, time for another 'How England is Different from the US' segment!
Exams.
Now, I can't say that I can speak for how all of England does exams. I can't even speak for how all of Keele ... |
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| Post-travel life
2009-05-17, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | So after weeks and weeks of constant global travel, and then about a week of essay writing and editing, my life has slown down considerably.
Make that... everyone I know is crazy busy studying for ... |
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| HOME
2009-05-05, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Hey guys! Sorry it took me so long to write, it's just been kind of nuts ever since I got home.
So Europe. Yeah. That was pretty sweet.
That trip was one of the most epic things I've ever done. ... |
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| ONE WEEK until break
2009-03-29, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | This weekend has been a blast.
Friday: Went out with Heather and Kristin. I wore my crazy colorful tights with faces on them. I'm glad I decided to pack those. They have come in so handy.
Saturd... |
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| So the library rents DVDs
2009-03-26, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | It's been cold and rainy here, so apart from a couple wicked sweet dinner gatherings at House 6 things have been pretty quiet.
What I mean of course, is that apart from writing essays and eating, I... |
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| So it's St. Patricks Day
2009-03-17, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | And I'm going to Dublin. When? Right now, I was just overexcited so I'm completely ready about 20 minutes early. Ally's making fun of me as we speak because I've got all my bags and stuff on and I'm j... |
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| Crab
2009-03-12, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | This morning I went to get ready for class, as I usually do. I began to ran the water for a bath and found that there was no hot water. Again.
This would have been much less irritating had I not b... |
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| Today
2009-03-11, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Tonight I am going to go out with the Frisbee team. Our theme is "Noah's Ark" so we all have a partner and an assigned animal. Some girls got to be cute animals, like flamingos, or lions. What am I?
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| Man, that seductive rabbit is everywhere!
2009-03-09, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Yesterday Kristin, Heather, Lydia, Ally, Scott, Vincent, a girl from France whose name I can neither remember or pronounce but began with "char", and I went to Birmingham. But Birmingham was kind of a... |
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| This city is afraid of me, I have seen it's true face...
2009-03-07, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Ok, so I just saw Watchmen. I would like to point out that it is really fun watching a movie with people from so many different countries. When they were listing cities up for Nuclear attack (New York... |
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| Libraries
2009-03-04, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | I realized today that I had been in the library, studying, for 6 hours.
And that this was becoming something of a habit.
It's not that I'm like, super nerd or anything, its actually a necessity... |
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| And then there were two...
2009-03-03, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Heather moved out of House six today, so now only Ally and I remain. To celebrate her departure we ordered pizza, which took approximately two and a half hours to actually receive because House 6, aga... |
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| Wacky English Professors
2009-02-27, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Oddly enough, even though I am studying in the UK, over half of my professors are actually from North America. My 'Power in the Modern World' professor insists that at one point he was American, altho... |
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| New Boiler
2009-02-25, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | In the concise words of the plumber: "Your boiler's broken, we're going to get you a new one."
So it looks like the space heaters might be with us for a while yet.
And now for another English Cu... |
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| Farewell Krystal! And goodbye heat.
2009-02-24, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | Yesterday Krystal got moved into permanent housing, and has now left Hawthorns House 6. She now lives in Horwood. Good luck Krystal! We'll miss you!
She would probably be more sad to leave if House... |
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| Conversations with English people
2009-02-18, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: katy | | So last night was Grace's (my roommate Krystal's friend and Ultimate Frisbee teammate) 20th birthday. She was feeling a little homesick for the good ol' US of A, so she decided we could have an Americ... |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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 | the hit list:
2007-06-13, Staffordshire, United Kingdom. By: skiv84 | | ramstein, germany - 16.06.07 to 30.06.07
belfats, northen ireland - 01.07.07 to 07.07.07
myerscough, united kingdon - 08.07.07 to 04.08.07
ramstein germany - 05.08.07 to 18.08.07
italy - 19.08.07 ... |
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