Exxtreme Traveling

Yesterday, I did my laundry for the first time here.  Now, that may seem like a relatively uninteresting topic of discussion but I can tell you the following facts to make it a much more fascinating post:

1. The laundry room for Furness College is located down the little pathway and down the stairs, next to the student radio station room.  I wouldn't have found it if my friend hadn't pointed it out offhandedly.
2.  There was no way I was about to invest in a real laundry bag for a 10-week term.  Uh uh.  I was using my the bag my bedding pack came in (thanks Dad for raising me as a pence-and-penny-pincher).

Well, if you haven't guessed it...  It was the day that the students I passed to and from the laundry probably now know what my delicates look like.

But was it worth saving the money?  Oh, yeah.  I'm never going to see these people again and besides, all of my clothes are freaking adorable, including the delicates, thanksverymuch.
(Okay, parents, tell me all you want that I'm allowed to splurge on a laundry bag, I'm not going to listen!  I'm saving that money to get a sleeping bag so I can go hang out with the cool backpacking kids and you can't stop me!!)

In more exciting news...  Boyfriend booked his ticket!  He will be arriving, probably looking helpless and confused, at my giant University on the 22nd of November!  We are attempting to cram everything we could possibly do into his eight day visit, including an All-American Drunk Chicken Thanksgiving, which I'm sure will confuse the daylights out of my Chinese flatmates.

Exhibit A: Map decorated by Boyfriend

He's also got a fancy camera (that he's pretty nifty with) so he wants to get a picture of Stonehenge.  Then we gallivant around London and Lancaster, while making Ireland our top priority.

Exhibit B: He's humoring my author-stalking problems

Regardless of how much caffeine I will have to drink to keep up with him, it will be a fun visit.

Before that, is my weekend trip to Scotland with Arcadia, where I have Tour Guide Barbie for a whole two days!

Cheers!

P.S. My blog is lacking some Kate Middleton Fashion Sense (credit to the fashionable Kate in my life)

It Starts with a Little Acceptance...

After anxiously waiting to hear back from Arcadia University, College of Global Studies since February, I finally received a rather unexpected voicemail from Jacki, my personal oversee for the Lancaster program in England.  Upon listening to Jacki rattle off the seemingly endless list of things I must do immediately following my acceptance, I ran into my lovely roommate.  We proceeded to then giddily jump around on the brick path in joyful celebration while passerbys shot us clearly jealous looks.
My next objective....Become Kate Middleton:

I can't go wrong if I embody the Duchess of Cambridge's fashion sense, right?

And if anyone was wondering whereabouts in England I will be, the answer is the crevices of nowhere, it's like a Wooster away from home:

Lancaster University had me at creative writing.  I'm beyond excited to see if it lives up to all of its hype on Arcadia's website.  Anyway, I shouldn't get TOO ahead of myself since I have until September 28 until my departure.  I have all summer here at Wooster to mimic Kate's stellar trench coats and riding boots (already got me some Wellies) and brush up on all the weird British lingo.

Cheers!