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‘Tis the season for fireworks!

Monday, November 7th, 2005

While Halloween is tied as my second favorite holiday ever normally, I have to say, it pretty much just sucks here in the UK. Back home we do it right with decorations, costumes, candy, spooky music, and haunted houses. Here, I saw all of four kids trick-or-treating and not a single jack-o-lantern anywhere. It was rather disappointing, I must say. I was glad that we had gone to the effort to decorate our house for our Halloween/Becky’s birthday party, complete with carved pumpkins and cobwebs. Our night of fancy dress went a long way to get me in the Halloween spirit, even if it wasn’t on the actual night. I just can’t conceive why people don’t make more of an effort here over the holiday, even if it is mostly an American thing – it’s just plain fun.

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Ahoy there, mateys!

Monday, October 17th, 2005

British people love fancy dress…they just love it. If there’s a birthday or a sporting victory to celebrate, what better way than by dressing up as cops and robbers or doctors and nurses? When I came to study in the UK last year I had no idea what fancy dress was – I was thinking ball gowns and tuxes. Once I figured out it was actually a group of people dressing up for a night out, I was still a bit confused as to why this would be fun in any way. That was before now.

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Packages, Portobello Road, and Kinky Boots

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005
It came it came!!! The first instalment of what I hope will be very many packages full of good ol' American TV DVDs has finally arrived! I went to the post office this morning on my way to work to ... [Continue reading this entry]

Home at Last

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
After weeks of living out of my suitcase, I've finally unpacked all of my stuff into my very own room. I can't begin to tell you what an exhilarating feeling that was for me. On Saturday we received a call ... [Continue reading this entry]

From Student to Unemployed

Monday, May 16th, 2005
It's amazing to me how fast the transformation took place. One minute I was a successful student with a great job and a steady paycheck coming in the mail every week, and the next thing I know I've graduated, left ... [Continue reading this entry]