Going Metric

Time in England: about 12 hours

Time in Bath: about 4 hours

Time with working internet: about 30 minutes

But that's not what we're really talking about right now.

Because as we were loading our luggage onto the bus to Bath, the driver asked Sarah (my traveling companion and flatmate) how much her suitcase weighed.

"50 pounds."

"Oi, what's pounds then? Pounds is money!"

And I realized I have to start thinking in metric.

Fortunately, I've been familiar with the following handy guide for quite some time:

(Click the image to enlarge it.)

Finally. Mindless surfing on xkcd is completely useful and therefore completely justifiable.

3 Days Til Departure

Whenever someone learns that I'm about to go study abroad in England, I get a lot of comments about bad food, bad teeth and "those buses with, like, the two floors." So why not turn the tables? How do you suppose the Brits (or any other Europeans, for that matter) view the United States?

Most posts will be about my day to day life as a Yank in the UK, but I'm expecting to encounter a cultural stereotype or two.

After all, even my fellow Americans ask me why I don't have a Southern accent.