"Red hair, hand-me-down robe..."

"You must be a Weasley!"

At least, I've always wanted to be one!
This week we went out to a casino to watch the Denver Broncos get slaughtered, showed our faces at The Underground Bar (Uni Club) a few times, made many more trips to ASDA, wandered around the city & got our photo taken entering Platform 9 ¾.

Sydney & I showing our house pride.

I only endured one class this week due to a union action strike (seems like lecturers can't escape poor teaching conditions anywhere!), Urban Anthropology, which is a first year class based around the practice of observation & ethnography. My only surprise was my lecturer, who looked like he had stepped out of Downton Abbey. It was like watching a walking & talking version of every posh British stereotype rolled into one. There was a three piece suit, a gold pocket watch, a long black trench coat, a bowler hat & a clay smoking pipe involved, it was an intense introduction to British academia!

All of us internationals are finally adjusting to using public transport, (even though it's ridiculously overpriced) & navigating our way around the city. Vanessa, Alicia & I sat in a Costa coffee shop for over two hours on Thursday afternoon after exploring the city & making a wrong turn on our way back to the tube station. It is really lovely not be on any real kind of schedule (apart from classes of course) & being able to go wherever, whenever, with our wallets being our only restriction... we all agreed we need to marry someone rich if we want to maintain the lifestyle!

Again I don't want to write for hours & bore everyone to death, so I will leave you one of my favourite, tourist-y photos I have taken so far, & my latest vlog!

I had the BBC Sherlock theme song stuck in head all day after this.

I have started to introduce the Americans to vegemite, but it's not going so well, I'll keep you updated!

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Currently listening to: The National's album, High Violet. I used their song, 'England' in my vlog, but the whole record is wonderful! ♫

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