So, on Monday night people absolutely insisted on taking me out for my birthday. We went to Primark (cheap British department store) and found a tiara for 3 pounds, went to Ben's for cookies, and settled on a place called Bella Italia for dinner. I got a sauceless pizza...mmm, even though I can now tolerate tomato sauce, I still think pizza is so much better without it! I got some crazy dessert called "The Godfather." When it came out it had a sparkler in it and everyone burst into Happy Birthday. It was all-around awesome.
Then yesterday, I had my first seminar. The teacher was young and sweet, very relaxed. It wasn't nearly as intimidating as I thought it would be. He divided the class into two groups, and had each group go off and discuss a question that he gave about the reading. He told us that every class will be formatted the same way. For the first class we'd read Utopia, which I like quite a lot (short, easy to get through), but for Friday we have to read both Shakespeare's Richard II and Spenser's Edward II - yikes! Good thing I got going on those two plays before I even left the U.S.
Oh, and I went grocery shopping with Megan. On the walk over to the store we had an involved conversation about chocolate, which resulted in me not being able to resist buying a Kinder Egg when we reached our destination. Thanks, Megan...thanks a lot! Now the addiction to Kinder Egg chocolate that I've battled against ALL MY LIFE is back with a rage, and it's totally your fault!
There are also lots of Kit Kat bars here. This could get ugly.
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