It has been a few days sinc my last update, and lots of things have been going on, so I thought, why not use a few of my frees (free hours) to blog about it. Now be prepared to be overwhelmed by information. Oh, and by the way, the 'e' key on my keyboard doesn't respond very well, so there might be a few e's missing.
On Thursday, I finally found out in what house I am. At Reed's, everybody is in one of the four houses. My house is Bristowe, colourd red, together with Charlie and Laura. The houses are mostly used for competition at Reed's. There was a hockey match planned between the houses, but it was cancelled that same afternoon. There are also many normal hockey teams, and I am in the C team. We train on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Thursday afternoon, the three of us went with some friends to a local corner shop. We had to walk through the woods for about 15 minutes, but it was a relief to have some sweets and coke (no worries, it's coca cola) in my room. The showers at the sixth form house are a real pain in the foot, because they are on a set, unchangable temperature of scorching hot. Something else I noticed is that despite the security meassures to block social networking, Skype works normally when you have downloaded and installed it on your laptop. Win for me.
I also took some pictures of my room, that I will try to upload this week, if the internet allows it. The light in my room still isn't fixed, eventhough I was promised it would have been fixed Thursday. We also had a fire practise on Thursday, during prep. It was perfectly timed, because prep was over the minute we walked back to the sixth form house.
On friday there was a cake sale by one of the houses, so I decided to take a cupcake. It wasn't very tasty however, because it contained cornflakes.
Saturday morning there was an open morning at Reed's, so there were many parents looking around. I felt being watched at, but we (Laura, Charlie and I) went off to Kingston with two friends that afternoon. We sat about 2 hours in the Starbucks, because that was the only place with Wifi. I, as you may know, have a simple nokia, which means that I had to study my piano homework, which I inceidentally left in my pockets. It was great fun though.
On Sunday the same three of us went with the train to London to meet the other exchange people from Lewis. We had a great time, and went to the M&M store, had a free espresso at the Nespresso store (it was disgusting). We also went to the TGIF, where we had a big American lunch.
One thing I miss from the Netherlands is the Dutch tv. Last sunday, I had to watch Who is the Mole in my room on my laptop. It was very exiting though, because it almost was the final episode.
The people here are all very nice, despite the fact that they are older than we. Many of them have acadamic, sports, or musical scholarships, which means that almost everybody is good at something.
Some things that are different in England that caught my eye are that the car brand Opel doesn't exist. In stead, they have Fauxhalls, which are completely identical to their Europian brothers. The money here is also hard to get used to. There are some really weird shaped, and the one pound coin is really fat.
Today (monday) I went to the CCF, which is a kind of like the army. We are going on camp for the entire next weekend. I haven't got the equipment, but I have collected my rations, and it is not too bad, since there is chicken, and other good food in it.
That is about it for now, I will try to upload some visable evidence asap.
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