October 22 , 2003 - page 3



When we all filed into the mandatory study abroad meeting, they told us that British students are hard to get to know, but from what I can tell they appear just as pleasant as American students, if not a bit kinder in some ways. It takes a while to get used to their lingo. For example, they call chips crisps, and French fries are called chips. Cookies are also called biscuits here, so if you ask for biscuits and gravy they look at you very strangely.

The past few days here have been particularly beautiful. When we first arrived in Reading the sky was mostly a dense wall of gray, but recently the sun has been peeking out from behind the clouds and illuminating the multi-colored leaves. Autumn is proving to be more and more gorgeous here.