Asda Adventures

Mission first grocery trip a success.
  
 Every Monday we get 50 pounds for our groceries and so after our meeting with Dr.Franke, we all set off. Unfortunately, we missed the buss and ended up walking to the store, which probably took about 20 minutes. It was kind of funny when we ended up walking in a line like ducklings when someone was coming the opposite way. Also, we had to take this back pedestrian path that was lined with blackberries. So tempting!
  
 The store in question, basically an English version of Walmart, is called Asda. The place was packed and although certain aspects were just like the States, others were completely different, as is to be expected I suppose. There were a lot more vegetables and fruits...actually I think more kinds of food period. Other things were labeled much differently. Soda, for example, were fizzies. Since we all tossed in 5 pounds for communal food, I didn’t really need that much. Luckily, I did find most of what I need for this week’s meals and kept it under 20 pounds. Woots!

   Getting back was another fun bit in itself. Unfortunately, by the time we finished shopping, the bus had stopped running. Our absolutely amazing house mother Gill came to our rescue. Her small car can only fit four of us plus her at a time so when it came to the last six of us, we had to get inventive. Matt got squashed in the boot (the trunk) while Lauren had to lay across the laps of us three in the back. Let’s just say my stomach hurt from laughing so hard on the way home.

    As for classes, I still don’t have them for sure, but this is because of Chinese. I need to take an entry examine to decide which level I’ll get in, but that can’t happen until October. Hopefully I’ll get my linguistics classes, but we’ll see.