Cheerio!

Hallo Govna’! I'm in England! We got to campus Thursday afternoon, but couldn’t get internet access until today…so to all of my family, I’m here and safe and enjoying myself fully! We were awake Wednesday/Thursday for approximately 30ish hours, so we feel asleep pretty quickly and easily that night. Our first dinner here was Chinese food, oddly enough. We found out that if you want to go somewhere for dinner you probably need to go around 5 or 6ish and “tea” can be an entire meal. Also, they use the meal words (breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, tea) interchangeably depending on the size of the meal…slightly confusing, but it lets us know how much food we’ll get! I also tasted my first cup of burnt coffee yesterday…not a fan. Surprisingly, the thing that has kept me going has been chocolate.

Yesterday was our first day of travel! We headed to Conwy, Wales with a large group of international students. We got to see a huge castle and a bunch of seagulls and people crabbing. After walking around the city for a bit we got a quick spot of tea and relaxed before heading back home. This first trip made me sooo excited about all of the different places we'll get to see. We find out our schedules on Monday, and from there we'll start planning all of our weekend trips!

Lauren and I are really enjoying our time here and trying to take everything in as much as possible. It’s been a larger culture shift than what we had anticipated, but everything’s been wonderful. AND it hasn’t rained yet, so that’s been a wonderful blessing! It seems like most of the other American students are here to get shwasted, shmammered, or shmabliterated, which has been funny to overhear, but it’s been more difficult to have an intelligent conversation with them. But our receipt at dinner the other night said, “A day without wine is like a day without sunshine,” so that made me laugh a bit since it always rains in England.

Some things that you can pray for: that our bodies would heal from the jetlag, an opening with other student to talk about life, and that our light would shine before men (Matt. 5:16).

I’ll call you on my mObile. Not really but that’s the only thing I can say in a British accent (thanks Ash attack).  I miss you all!