I Got Life

I've been in Bath for a couple days now and it's as beautiful as ever. Really, it is a truly gorgeous city. Hopefully I'll put some pictures of the city up online soon to share this fantastic city.
There hasn't been too much going on yet. Thankfully, classes don't start this week and so we just have orientation all this week. But not so thankfully, we had short diagnostic exams (or like written tests) for each of our courses to "give our tutors an idea of what we know, how we write, etc". So pooey that there was some actual thinking required this week.
Today I had a meeting with the internship coordinator and the internship people at the Egg (the children's theatre children's theatre at the Theatre Royal). I'm still not sure exactly what I'm going to be doing - that should be figured out next week - but all the people I met were incredibly nice and the space looks really neat. So I'm excited. I should have more to share soon.
Other than that, there's been a bunch of hanging out and exploring the city. My house found our favorite street in the city. It's nearby the study center and is called Old Or Hard Street. (It's actually Old Orchard Street. But on the sign the "c" has fallen off. So it is now and forever Old Or Hard Street.) Bath is also a great walking city because it's so compact. But my big problem with that is that since nobody really walks in Southern California, I'm mostly used to city walking in New York. And in New York, the pedestrians pretty much cross the street whenever and however they want. That's definitely not the case here. So I just have to keep reminding myself to not be stupid so I don't die.
There are lots of other little things I have to adjust to. The other day, my house went out to the grocery store and it was pretty much impossible to find anything in a jumbo size. Granted, that's not a bad thing at all, it's just different consumerism attitudes. It was only a problem when I was looking for peanut butter (apparently, our house really loves peanut butter) and couldn't find a jar that would last us over a week. The other thing that's really funny is that in the grocery store or the pharamcy ( Boots! ), you can buy insurance. Life insurance, house insurance, anything. I don't know how I would feel buying my bread and car insurance at the same place. One other difference - the other day I saw a Disneyland Paris commerical!...It made me really excited.