from exeter to cambridge

i apologize ahead of time to those very avid readers of brittany adventures. as i do when i talk, i tend to ramble on a bit. so if you feel that these entries are too long, let me know and i will work on trying to do something about it. once again pathetic update on pictures. i am at work again and no pics with me. good news place i am staying in has internet, so it could be quite soon!!

+++LAST WEEK IN EXETER+++

tues = same old at work. went over to aude's house for an african dinner (since she is from benin) after i played squash with ben and dave. i did really bad since they are too professional for me and i started questioning my devotion to the sport, but realized i had a lot to learn. anyways after we had dinner at aude's we played 3D connect 4 which is really crazy/fun/think a lot. it was great with a bunch of really smart people since they all have different logic.

wed = played squash with aude after work. we are on the same level so it is good for the beginner like me. the went went shopping and rode back home on aude's bike which TREMEBNDOUSLY cut down commutting time. it was so nice. i went over to her place because it was her roommate's birthday. it was hilarious since guy's dinners are meat bread cheese and a lot of alcohol. it was just me and aude and a bunch of guys playing some quiz game on play station and then hanging out talking about life. this french dude who has the same name as daniel quinica's 300 lb friend, who looks nothing like him, and i were comparing the few tahitian words that he knew with hawaiian ones. it was fun. i made friends with this italian guy who was quite charming and gave me a ride home since it was late.

thurs = winding down to my last days at exeter. it has been great since every tea session had some sort of cake. yes it was mostly my doing. i played squash with the italian who was really cool and helped me get better. from tues-> thurs i became a changed woman. it was great since he would tell me what i wasa doing wrong. then i had to hurry home since i was having friends over for the last supper. i made an extravagant meal of spagghetti and salad and all the cheese in my fridge. i did make brushetta for the first time which came out quite good! so we huung out and played pictionary. i think me and aude can read each others mind sometimes. it was creepy a little. we had two cakes for my "birthday" yes i know this year we are starting early ;D. i had to wash everything in the world and pack to go to cambridge, but i thought it would be an injustice not to finish the bottle of wine that was left. there was about 3/4 of it left. i am not sure that it actually helped the whole cleaning process AT ALL.

fri = loaded up my 2 bags, meike's guitar and everything into suzanne's car and went to work. my bags are so FREAKIN heavy!! just keep this in mind for the rest of this entry. they each seperately weighed like 100lbs. and not too mention the guitar and my backpack full of stuff. so it was a half day at exeter and i was mindlessly doing not much as i cleaned up my things. my friends that i made at exeter got me a tshirt and a necklace and i thought that was sooo very sweet. they are so cool! i am really glad that i met them.
so suzanne, andy bunker (really cool astronomer guy), and i headed down to the trainstation. jumped on and headed out. *this is where it gets interesting* so our train is delayed because there was a suicide on the tracks ahead of us, so we jump off the train in london paddington (where it is wild an hectic) run over to the place where we catch the tube. don't forget that we have ALL my luggage and suzanne has a giant backpack, andy has nothing but helping me with all my stuff. we have to lug everything up a huge flight of stairs to get to the place you get to the tube(subway). that tube is delayed so we catch another one that connects one stop down. no elevators there either. we get to this place called kings cross where we have 2 minutes to RUN across the station to get to the cambridge train. if we miss this then it is a 45 min wait for the next one and we have dinner to go to in cambridge. so running with ALL this luggage and barely make it on the train. when we get to cambridge we are trying to get a taxi , we put everything into a taxi and it doesnt fit so he kicks us out. the taxi next to us is a massive van but the guy wont take us because some sexi cute girl is walking over! whatever. we FINALLY make it to the place that i am staying in and are just like woohoo.
it is a really nice place. my room is teeny weeny. basically a bed a window about 2m to the wall and thats about it. the rest of the house is really cool. i am living with 3 guys. you can kinda tell by the organization of things. so we drop my stuff and run over to the dinner that we were trying to make it to. we made it. we ate and hung out and it was fine.

sat = suanne and andy went to a rememberance service for a friend that passed away and i met up with them at suzanne's flat in the afternoon since they were having a litto get together. i hung out with pete (the guy who's house i am in) and bob (the other guy staying in there) in the morning and had an amazing cappucino from an italian joint. hung out at suzanne's all day with her and her friends. decided that i am going to teach myself dutch with the books that she has.
we went to a pub. played some games. then went to a thai place. it was really good. went to another pub had a guiness (which i decided i really don't like). made some more friends.

sun = cruised around the city centre and adventured cambridge. it is really cool and old and stuff. soooo touristy! blah that is one thing i can do without. i know i am a toursist but i mean i dunno whatever. suzanne met me and showed me where newton lived and where rutherford figured out the structure of DNA. oh just the litto old place. what the heck isn't that CRAZY?!?! i cant even remember all the names that she was droppin. it was like WWII all over again.
we bought books at borders and read them in a park. i went back for a shower at pete's then back to suzanne's. i know i have been there a lot. i skated there and skating on cobblestone isn't the easiest. but there were some really cool places though and smooth ones. suzanne lives in a flat that is next to this giant house where a lot of people live. so every sunday they have dinner together. there was about 16 people there and it was really nice. like a big family. met a whole bunch of cool people. later on in the evening we ended up getting into a religion discussion since this polish girl is a born again christian who encountered an atheist. humm put 2 and 2 together. funny thing she didnt think english was my first language for some reason. then she did then decided it was beautiful. went home sleep, etc.

mon = first day working at the institute of astronomy in cambridge. it is a nice facility by the time that i found it. i think i took the weirdest way to find it but luckily i did. i have a nice office here and you would think i am famous and important or something. haha i am really good at faking it all.

that is that.

life
to be continued...