Hello, all. I spent the past weekend in the county of Cumbria, England on my homestay. It was great - the family was really nice (they had a very cute 10 year old boy and made me really good food) and they took us around the area. These pictures are of me with the family and some people on my program in the Lakeland Region, which is absolutely gorgeous, the town of Keswick (a cute little market town) and the village of Shap (where the family lived...lots of sheep, not much else). You can see more pictures on Webshots (community.webshots.com/user/pamelalachman).
The weekend was fun - five of the people from the Parliamentary Internship program went on a homestay with a bunch of different families in the area, and I was by myself in the house. John and Tom (two guys on my program) had a more intense experience - their homestay mom was diabetic, and became really low on blood sugar while driving them around the middle of nowhere (they had to flag down a guy on a tractor to get her a Coke) and then took them out clubbing at night. My family wasn't quite so exciting (although they did introduce me to a fabulous television program called "Jam and Jerusalem").
Anyway, classes are still going well (I have to give a presentation of Scottish voting behavior tomorrow...woohoo). Today is a very "dreicht" day in Edinburgh (dreicht means really rainy and generally crappy and cold), which kind of sucks. The weather usually isn't so bad - it rains in the morning, is cloudy around noon, and then clears up for a couple of hours at the end of the day. And it's DEFINITELY not that cold (it's like 40 degrees every day).
Last night a few of us went to watch the Football Playoff games - it was so pathetic, we were walking around all of these pubs asking "do you know where they are playing the American football game?" and watching the bartenders look at us like, "um, no, but fancy some rugby?" We finally found a sports bar playing the Patriots/Chargers game, and we got there just in time to see the Patriots win :( And then the bar closed before the Giants/Packers game was finished, so we were generally unsuccessful. Oh well.
Alright, miss everyone tons! Keep me posted on what's going on with you all (e-mail, call, skype, whatever).
Pam
(P.S. I tried peanut butter - it's really not that bad, thank god.)
1 comment:
so jealous.....
it's like 20 degrees here in Baltimore (and you know my hatred of cold weather) and well you're in Scotland and I'm in Baltimore...
The Giants game actually was more exciting than the Pats game even though it was painful watching them play in -24 degree weather. Giants won with a field goal in overtime!
mwah! <3 E
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