Crazy Weekend in England

View from the top of the mall parking garage.

Streets of Cambridge, England.

Me and Melissa (We went shopping so I could get some "club clothes" cuz I feel out of place going out w/the ppl in my hall and I don't have any nice clothes, tho their clothes are all kinda "risque", I really want to look like them so I fit in, but I still ended up looking what I think as "cutesy" oh well. I did get a little purse to wear while dancing at the clubs that looks like Paula's!)

The University of Cambridge.

Melissa driving us in England!

For the first time, I took a bus to the airport to fly by myself to England. I arrived much too early b/c I couldn't print out my boarding pass so I wanted plenty of time to sort things out. The bus ride was about 40mins. to the airport for 3 pounds. How I made it thru security at the airport I have no idea. I had a huge bottle of shampoo w/me (i just took my backpack w/all my stuff in it on the plane w/me) and all my pens & pencils in my backpack. I said I had no liquid and they didn't stop me at security, both ways.

Melissa and her friend picked me up from the airport and it was an hour's ride to the base. I was able to get right in cuz Melissa is a cop on base. There are not very many girls on base, so they all get kinda excited when a girl comes to visit, and sometimes things got really uncomfortable. The base was really just like a mini U.S. inside England, it was kinda nice.

Saturday, Melissa's friend was going to let her drive his car so we could go to Cambridge, but then it ended up it was a stick shift and she didn't know how to drive stick, nonetheless on the other side of the road! We lucked out and her other friend let her drive his car, which was American and was really difficult for melissa to drive it w/the steering wheel on the left side, and driving on the left side of the road, I had to look in the blindspots for her all the time. Once we got to cambridge, we were trying to find the mall and we got lost and couldn't understand the road signs and got stuck at dead ends and one way streets. We had to ask multiple English ppl how to get to the mall, they were all very nice and tried to give us directions. One thing about roads in the UK, is they are very confusing and there are round abouts, or rotaries, that are like fourway stops, but you drive around in a circle to make the turn. Melissa did a great job driving, I never coulda done it!

(Note to self: I hate fire drills, we just had the 3rd one since I've been here, and I had to go out in the cold in flip flops and pj's...i would rather burn.)

I haven't really slept more than a couple hours each night since Wednesday...I desperately need sleep right now, but I need to do laundry more and hopefully a machine is open now!