Dear Aunt Sally...

You know you've been in the United Kingdom for 5 weeks when... You get urges to spell things with a 'u' in them, you begin saying 'cheers' to them, you say 'pardon' instead of 'excuse me,' and you get taken aback when you receive crispy bacon instead of Canadian ham when you order bacon.

I'm sure I could think of more later on...

So I'm back at Oxford and I have one more week left. This whole trip really has just flown by, and I'm really going to be sad to leave here. I absolutely love the UK, and I really don't want to leave. I've done so much, but I feel as if I've done barely even touched what there is to do. I actually believe I'm going to get Oxford-sick when I get home. It finally just hit me this morning that we're almost done. One of the girls here, Jess, who we've gotten pretty close with is leaving for holiday tomorrow, and so tonight is out last night hanging out with her. Sad.

Anyways, enough depressing stuff. Update on me. I had another slightly stressful traveling situation yesterday with the British rail system. Although I definitely wish the US used more trains and depended a lot less on driving, it's definitely not a perfect system. I planned it out so that I could get in to Oxford comfortably enough to have time to unpack and get dinner in our hall. Well, my first train came in 20 minutes late. I only had 2, but still, it was enough so that I was going to miss the connection for my next train and get in an hour later than expected (just in case you didn't pick it up, the trains run about hourly). Well, on my first train, we had a lot of difficulty getting in to Carlisle, and that 20 minute delay turned in to a whole hour delay. So once I finally got to Wolverhampton, I only had about 5 minutes to go to the sign to find out where my platform was (happened to be the same platform- awesome), and run on to the bus. No way was I going to be sitting there for another hour and miss my FREE (or really already paid for) dinner at Oxford! But I made it, in the nick of time thankfully. So, although I got in an hour later, I'm glad that I had been prepared for a situation like this, and I barely made it in time for dinner! Which was actually a pretty good one too- Butterbean soup, Ribeye steak, Potatoes, Yorkshire pudding (I actually really like this stuff), and then strawberries and cream for dessert.

I ended up just crashing last night. I borrowed a friends movie of Emma and kind of fell asleep during it... Well, I woke up in the middle of it, but decided I would go back to where I had left off later and catch up.

But tonight is what I'm really excited for. Apparently the Texas group here at Oxford has gotten our name known around town... how? I'm not exactly sure, probably from some of the students here who we've befriended. Well, it turns out that we were invited to play an intense of 'Aunt Sally' down at a pub tonight by the mayor of Oxfordshire, or somebody really high up like that. Really awesome, right? Except for none of us know what Aunt Sally exactly is, and somehow I got chosen out of 8 people to be on the official Texas Team. But free food and drinks, so we're not one's to say no to that, even if we have to make ourselves look like fools in the process.

Here's a clip online I found of Aunt Sally- this is all I know about it too! I just hope I don't accidentally hurt somebody in the process...

Ok, well I'm off to writing some more Shakespeare journal entries and reading some of Woolf's novel the Waves.

Catch up with y'all later!