The UK eh?

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Well, it's almost been a full week. It feels like I've been here forever actually. I've now met all of my flat mates (as they like to call them over here). My neighbor from Toronto, 3 down the hall from Hong Kong, and then a Chilean and 3 Texans across the hall from me. The Texans make it a point to laugh at me when I say "eh?" which is more often than you think. I will often tack it on at the end of a sentence, such as "I know-eh?". But it is ok, because I like to laugh at them when they say "y'all", which they do a lot. I also shake my head at their OBSESSION with football. They are all from the University of Texas, and are crazy about thier football. Here is a picture of the view from my room, including my plants that I bought on sale, two of which are now dead.
So classes started this week and the campus is a bit chaotic. The set up is hard to get used to, but I'm getting more used to it. The university itself is about a 9-10 min drive from the main city where my residence is. So the first day we took the bus. Like most everything over here the bus is a bit pricey. So on Tuesday my Texan friend Matthew and I walked both there and back. Oh I forgot to mention, Bath University sits on top of a VERY big steep hill. So it took us about 40 mins to walk there and about 30 of them was non-stop uphill. Mind you we did stop to take some pictures. Some of which are posted below. It's a scenic walk though, so I will probably walk it often.

All of the mail boxes I have seen here look like this!

Simular to the Halifax waterfront there are often people playing music along the shops for money. This is a picture of a man in one of the many "walking only" streets in Bath doing some intense balance and violining. He had some music playing in the background and then he would play along on top. Crazy!
As you can imagine there are many differences in the names of certian things over in England compared to Canada. For example, today when I was out buying some groceries, I asked one of the workers if they sold any clothes pins (to seal some of my food with), after a puzzeled look and re-explaining what I was looking for, he informed me that they call them clothing pegs here. They also call hallways corridoors, and laundry matt the laundrette and they spell things funny too! Like pita bread and hummus, they spell it pitta and houmous! I could go on and on about the differences over here. Like how both thier french salad dressing and thier chedder cheese is white, and how they call thier french fries "chips" and thier chips "crisps"! It takes a while getting used to.
Well before I end this post, I will leave you with one last picture that simply had to be taken. For those who don't know, I have developed a minor obsession with moss and am actually doing my honours research on moss this summer for Dalhousie. So here's a another picture from my walk back from school with Matt. (We have a trip to Windsor Castle lined up for this Saturday, so I will probably update this again soon after that!)