June 10, 2016

On the eighth of June, I had my class from Mississippi State on Objects of Travel, which you will maybe see more about as I'll be blogging bits and pieces for that class on here as well very soon. Since I had already finished my first tutorial, one of my flatmates and I decided to head out for some celebratory shopping. I bought a really cute top at Primark for only six pounds... It's so cute too. For lunch, we ate at the open market where people sell stuff from flowers, to fish, to clothes, to gyros. Obviously, I got a gyro. It had pork sausage and grilled veggies in it. We had them when we first came into Oxford, and it was so good. Later in the day, I had ice cream, which was also amazing. Can you see a theme on Wednesday? I'll just tell you then; it was food -- particularly, good food.

On the ninth of June, things got ca-razy! Okay, not really because I'm a Southern Baptist but! We had class that morning and I did a little more shopping on Thursday instead of giving into my need to read For Whom the Bell Tolls. My roommate and I shopped for ages, just trying on and having a good time. Our flat doesn't have a full-length mirror so it was finally nice to see all of me again. Hello to the rest of Karleigh, I missed seeing you! Anyway, when we got back, our other flatmates asked if we wanted to try out the Purple Turtle, which is a bar and dance club. It's pretty interesting; the most exciting dancing I've ever seen/been a part of was at prom and BETA convention. How cool, right? Well, British dancing is pretty much the same except you get to have a ton of fun dancing badly because you don't know anyone. And for someone who loves dancing, but is very bad at it... this place was gold. I actually really had a fun time and dancing until late at night is a lot of fun and also a great workout. I recommend it ha!

The tenth of June was a crazy day. It started off normal enough. I started reading my next novel and had a really relaxed morning. In the afternoon, we all decided to head out and I took back some of my library books. Then I was going to get money out of the ATM because I was running lower than I liked on cash. Imagine my reaction when the ATM told me I was already overdrawn for the day. Yep. Someone jacked my card number and had already charged over 1200+ bucks on it. Horrified, I did the dreaded thing (foreign calls are super expensive, y'all) and actually rang my mom, the bank, my mom again, the bank again. Now, thankfully, everything should be okay soon. I have a new card on the way thanks to my marvelous mother and the nicest banker I've ever chatted with. Then I had Chinese food and had the longest bath ever to recover. It was a crazy day. Tomorrow, we are off to Bath which I'm super excited about. I'm so pumped to see the Roman baths. I pray it's a calm day... at least, calmer than today.

catch you later,
Karleigh