Thanksgiving!!

Well, i have just got back from a wonderful thanks giving. It was soooo much fun. Lindsay's family really made me feel part of the family. On Thursday I actually helped make the thanks giving meal and made my own cranberry sauce from scratch, it was great. On Fri we spent the day in Stamford (where they live) shopping and seeing a film and then yesterday- oh yes- we went to NY!!! It was brilliant. I can't explain how good it was. We were only there for a short time but I loved it. We went to see the Public Library (feature in a day after tomorrow) lol and looked around a craft show and then we went to see Tarzan on Broadway. It was fantastic. I felt truly at home which is something I haven't felt since we got here. To be back in a house, with a family was really good, sleeping on a proper bed wasn't bad either. Lindsay took loads of pics so when i get them I will publish them but at the mo I shall leave you with just a few of NY.

All I can say is that I had an amazing time and I am so grateful to Lindsay and her family for having me.

Will publish more pics soon once I get them of Lindsay.

:)

Bring on the Basketball

Well yesterday saw the 1st game of the season- for Basketball that is. It was very exciting and I am kind of getting the rules- a few more games and I shall be a pro. We watched the 1st half (that lasts 20 mins) and then it was time for the half time entertainment, yep- the cheerleaders and the dance team performed. They were both very good, the cheerleaders stayed throughout the entire game and did little jumps and formed letters and chants and stuff like that. Just as we were getting ready for the second half to begin (again 20 mins) we could hear this alarm going off. Now everyone just sat still and carried on (to be honest I thought it was the start of another dance track) that was until the booming voice came over the speaker- this is the fire alarm, will you please evacuate at the nearest exit. So we all left calmly- the thing is is that we don't know what set it of yet but we had to fire trucks (or was it one) well we had at least one and we could smell burning. They eventually let us back in but because of the delay we only saw 10 mins of the second half because we went to see the new Bond film. There is another match today so I am taking a guess that they one and am going to go to the latter match to see the two winning teams play one another. It was all very exciting. The Bond film was also very good, enjoyed it immensely- yet have to say it was the most complicated, confusing Bond i have ever seen (still had me on the edge of my seat though!) I will try and post again before thanksgiving but if not, I will post again in just over a weeks time- have a wonderful week and I will post soon. Just to keep you going- some pics from last night.

As you can see- everyone had a really good time! :)

Go Go Go MIghty Max

Hi ya all- well yesterday was Max's birthday and what fun it was. We all had to dress up in costume, I was Hermione (think that is how you spell it!) Sarah M and Helen plated my hair sat night and then we took them all out on Sunday- my hair was huge- looked good though lol... as you can imagine as Helen and Sarah L and planed a photo scavenger hunt it absolutely chucked it down- no surprise there then, but a little rain never hurt anyone so we went ahead anyway. Rain does not go well with frizz and I was soon de - flattened but the team I was on carried on anyway...despite the phone call from the other team saying that they surrendered. After we all dried out and had something to eat we participated in Mighty Max's indoor Olympics- as you can probably guess I had no chance of winning but it was good fun. Lindsey one Gold- go Lindsey, Priscilla got silver and Helen got Bronze. It was all good fun and of course there was cake at the end- how else would you end a birthday.

How American are we...

Well yesterday after the walk to Borders and Target, and once again surviving the near death experience of crossing the highway we decide to play Frisbee. Now it gets dark about 5ish over here so as we started at 4.15 we didn't have much light to play in. It was fun just trying to guess where the Frisbee was. I have some wonderful videos of Helen and Sarah playing Frisbee (well they weren't playing more...errrr....Having a discussion! lol). Obviously as you can imagine my talent for Frisbee is outstanding. All that hand-eye co-ordination, no problem!















In the evening we went to see the Prestige- it had a number of mixed views from all of us but all I will say is go and see it. It is one of the cleverest films I have seen in a long time.

How far behind am I!!!!

Yet again another late posting. Where the time goes to in a day I will never know. Now I didn't actually take any pictures of Bon Fire night so am afraid that you will have to be filled in by words...the clod air bit at the cheeks of those waiting to light the fire (no I don't think so either best leave that to Helen who knows what she is doing!) instead lets start at the very beginning for that is a very good place to start. We happened to mention that we would miss bon fire night being over here and the international office (bless there cotton socks) got straight on to it and worked out how we could have one of our own. We all pulled together, We advertised by posters, KSC postings, word of mouth and we even put one of the Guys in the DC to advertise. Just before the bonfire started we marched the Guy around campus for some last minute advertising and then walked on to the field with him. Richard said the poem ( you know remember remember the 5th of November) and then we lit the fire with Guy on top. It was fantastic, we must have had about 100 people it was sooooo much fun, cold but fun. It was almost like being back home (apart from being surrounded by American accents- although it is getting harder to tell the difference between the American accents and us lot!) Now an explanation of the photo. We ran to Target and we wanted photographic proof lol! Not really- can you really see me running anywhere apart from on the pic! We walked to Target would be closer to the truth and helen was after some random shots so she took control of my camera and we got this one. The exciting thing about walking to Target however was not the near death experience of trying to cross the main road without traffic lights but the fact that it snowed. Only a little but it tried its hardest. Unfortunately that snow has now turned to rain but I live in hope that it will come soon. Yes that is what I shall leave you with - bring on the snow! :)