I just got back from studying at the British Library, not a British Library but The British Library, as in the equivalent to the Library of Congress kind of thing. International Students are allowed to get a library card there and so I did! I had a really productive time there once I got comfortable with the system. It is a really intimidating place, like, there are all these really super smart people with like 10 PhD's sitting next to you, and you're still reading books with pictures in them (well maybe that is an exaggeration...maybe....) But you have to order books online and then they have to go get them from out of the millions of books they have, and it can take up to 2 days for them to find the books. But anyways, I got some good research for my History of Islam term project done and I worked on some Dramatic Lines Journals and started to sketch out my term project too...so all in all a good day.

So I've noticed that on British food, when they want to say "natural" or "no preservatives" they say "No Nasties" yes, nasties...isn't that funny???

I was also musing on the fact the British school children, especially girls, are really really loud and boisterous, but British adults are on a whole, very quite, patient, passive people. How is it that these children turn into that type of adult? Does the British government have like a reeducation program after highschool to tone these children down? Who knows, we may be closer to the England of Orwell then we know...

We were talking in class one day about Americans in Britain and Dr Linda Mills-Woolsey said "Sometimes people will ask 'are you Canadian', I think this means that they are trying to be nice to you, but if they ask 'are you American' you know that it's an insult" it was pretty much the funniest thing ever...i about died laughing, but it is so true!!! Did you know that for the first time like....ever the Canadian Dollar is stronger than the US Dollar. It's incredible. You know you've studied abroad when you obsessively watch the strength of the Dollar.....usually it is decreasing. The Dollar is the lowest it has been in 26 years in comparison to the pound...yeah I picked a great time to study in London....

And on that cheery note I shall leave you all because it is dinner time...I hope they don't try to make pasta again...the British just cant make pasta....its gross..never order Lasagna, you can thank me later for this tip!