Monday, March 3, 2008

feeling comfortable, and, i need your help

I always do that – I write a really short blog promising to write more the next day, and then don't post at all the next day.
I'm sorry.
But it makes the next post even better, doesn't it?
Yeeeah.
That works in my favor, since I really don't have much to write about. We got out of class early today since we didn't watch a movie like we usually do, so I watched a movie myself, called Green Street Hooligans, about a football "firm," which really meant those crazy football (which here means soccer) fans who get in terrible fights with other team's fans. It was an okay movie, but it was set in London, and I recognized some of the places in the movie.
That made me think. I've been here almost two months, and I'm finally starting to feel like a Londoner, rather than a tourist. I no longer walk on the right side of the sidewalk, I look the right way when I cross the street, I pay in pounds, and today I found a euro in my pocket. It's a weird feeling to be comfortable in a place that so recently seemed so foreign to me. I remember quite clearly being completely confused by the money here – why do they have a coin for two pounds but not for 25 cents? Now it seems almost natural to have – and use – much more change. And I don't even notice the accents any more. Rather, I notice my own American accent much more.

Tonight I'm supposed to go see some play by some guy who won a Nobel prize. I know that sounds crass, but honestly I don't know who the playwright is, or what the play is even called. My British Lit teacher is supposed to have arranged it, but as of now, 4:50 p.m., I haven't heard anything. Plays usually start around 7:30, so I'm sort of doubting that we're actually going. It's kind of disappointing... but tomorrow we're going to see Les Misérables so I'm not really complaining.
For our final in British Life and Culture, we have to write a "Letter to America" that's worth 50 percent of our grade. I think I'm going to use a lot of stuff from my blogs, so if you can think of any posts you think would be worth a lot of points, let me know! It's supposed to be cultural observations about England, so... Help me out! Leave some comments!

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