Just going to Town...

Oh dear. These past 3 days have been very tiring. They've been fun though. Orientation is finally over. I know what I need to know about Harlaxton in order to get started here. In fact, classes start tomorrow. I got up this morning and hurt my neck by turning too quickly. Now I can only turn my head to the left. The nurse here gave me some British Transvaden, which is similar to our Icy Hot. (I'll bring left what's home for my brother's souvenir). My neck's feeling better than it was this morning....

So... let me see what you've missed.

Yesterday we took the Harlaxton mini bus to downtown Grantham. Turns out they have a wannabe Wal-Mart. They call it ASDA (I have no idea what it stands for). It's actually owned by Wal-mart. It looked very similar to our Wal-marts, but all the employees wear bright neon green fleece jackets. Oh! New Brit lingo: a "till" or "til" is a checkout lane at ASDA (or any department store or marketplace, i guess).
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I had a coney dog for lunch yesterday. It was pretty tasty. Last night we got all dressed up for the President's High Table Dinner. Wine was served in the Great Room before dinner. The meal was delicious!

There's a pub at the end of "the mile" at Harlaxton. It's called Gregory Arms.. "the Greg" for short. Usually they stay open until 11p.m. but last night they had a "welcoming party" for the Harlaxton students. They stayed open until 1 a.m. Let's just say we closed the place down. It was a lot of fun. We also met some cool locals. Although there were plenty of people there our age, my friend Michelle and I decided to dance with a group of people celebrating a 50th birthday. They were so great!


Lauren fell in some "bramble" on the mile walk home last night. Bramble is this rough, prickly plant. It was a long, cold walk. We made it back though, and got a good night of rest. Today consisted of more Orientation and meetings. I think I'm going to call it an early night and get to bed. I hope you enjoyed my blog today... I'll speak again soon! muah!