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“I chalked it up as a “character building” experience that would be miserable at the time, but would be a great memory a year later. My personal experience however taught me something a bit different. Camping in wintertime is less about camping and much more about surviving.”
“Rugby is less of a sport and more of warfare. Basically take all the impact and action of American football, increases it a bit more, and then take away all the players pads and protection.”
“Instead of saying, “How are you?” the English say, “Are you OK?” This one still gets me because my response is always a defensive “Yes, why wouldn’t I be?” I then try to explain to them that “Are you OK?” in the States is used as a nice way of saying, “What’s wrong.””
“You should have seen the looks on their faces, in a smile and twinkling of an eye it said: “You haven’t been able to help much, but here is your chance! We’ve got them now! Come on ol’ boy what is the answer to this one? Lord knows I don’t know President Truman’s middle name is…” And I sat there feeling awash in the possibility of redemption. “Harry S. Truman…. I know this one…. Harry Stevenson…. Harry Scott… Starts with an S! Let’s see. Swim? Swammi? Slippy? Slappy? Swenson? Swanson?” I couldn’t remember.”
“I dressed in what I deemed my finest outfit, one that I had laid out the night before just for old times sake. I wore my favorite jeans, a white cotton button-up, my previously mentioned new striped sweater vest, a blazer with my “It’s never dull in Hull” button, and leather boots. I felt quite snappy actually as I walked/danced to school with my iPod providing a soundtrack.”
“…mix in The Office, kind words from across the sea, Radiohead’s new album, an insatiable Nutella addiction, Rugby anticipation/trash talking, jokes that make you cry laughing, a lemon-scented-geranium, and all the other little things that make everything seem just a bit better.”
“It’s like a gratifying hiss of confidence-building-reassurance. With each Pissssst I imagine an English woman narrating: “Good shift. Nice turn. I wouldn’t have breaked either.” To quote a phrase, it is brilliant.”
“With great embarrassment it occurred to me that I have neglected to share a few rather large updates in my life abroad. My excuses, though not very convincing, revolve around being busy and then the subsequent traveling I’ve done. It’s better then my “I’m supporting the writers strike in America” excuse at least… But fear not you “what’s new junkies” I’ll fill you in now. “
“For me Monaco was like being in a James Bond film for a day. It was a day in which multimillion-dollar yachts surrounded me, I saw more exotic and luxury cars in an hour than in all my life, went inside the Monte-Carlo Casino, and did all this in the company of a beautiful Brazilian girl.”
“Once you catch the wrong train, specifically one heading in the undeviating opposite direction, things become difficult. And once you realize that you don’t have the phone number to the person meeting you at the station in Hull AND that the train you’ve just gotten on is actually a different company and you’ll either have to get off or buy another ticket things become even more difficult.”
