WAR EAGLE!!

What a game!! wish I could have watched more then live stats but a BIG thank you to my dad for giving me play by plays!!! ... sorry doug and dad looks like you are going to be wearing a nice shade of orange for a while :)

A Long Overdue Update

Hello Hello to all,

Sorry I have been bad at updating my blog recently I have just been very busy - as this term is slowly starting to end and there are lots of things to be done before I leave!

London from the Waterloo Bridge

So about two weeks ago Miss Nell came down to London for a night and stayed with me in Oxshott before heading off on her worldly adventures during Half Term. Miss Laura met both Nell and I in Waterloo station and we walked across the waterloo bridge to try and find a close restaurant to eat at and grab a few drinks. Miss Nell had her huge suitcase with her though so we wanted to find a place to put it while we went out. We ended up going to the Savoy and Miss Nell worked her magic- as the man working at the door took her suitcase for safe keeping until our return. The catch was that we had to go into the bar for a least one drink .. well apparently you can not wear UGG like boots in the savoy because I was turned away. (which ended up being the running joke of the evening) .. its ok I didnt want to drink with those people anyway. So we snuck out of the Savoy and headed to this little Italian restaurant where I had fish and chips ( so Italian haha)  and then we went to this pub that was in a cellar under a different restaurant. It was a lot of fun and great to see them both!

The next morning I dropped miss nell off at the train station and lucky she left when she did! A few hours after her train a laury fell off of the bridge over the train station and hit a train, which ended up closing down our station and roads for the evening. It was really annoying because Oxshott is not very big - and to get in there is basically one major road. well the bridge is on this road and traffic was AWEFUL for at least a  week after the accident.

Little Venice

The next weekend was Guy Fawkes day! - Guy Fawkes was the man who tried to burn down parliament so in his honor they burn his effigy over big bonfires and set off fireworks, etc. It is definitely a fun weekend to be in the country. I went to my the school my friend works at for a big firework display and then we headed into london to see a friend from college! She is currently living up in Birmingham but her cousin was recently married so she invited us to a pub for part of the celebration. It was a fun night.

This past weekend I stayed in Little Venice in London with Miss Laura at her flat. We went out for drinks on saturday night and then had a pretty low key night with champagne left over from my birthday and sheldon/ the big bang theory. Then on sunday we explored Little Venice in the morning - complete with a walk along the canal and a photo shoot on the bridge over the canal haha. We then grabbed some food from the local market and had a picnic inside- since the weather was kind of gross. After lunch we headed to the British Museum where Miss Laura works and I had my own personal tour of the museum. SOO cool. If you ever have the chance to go there I highly recommend it!!

This week for Thanksgiving it will be pretty low key- especially since its not celebrated over here. I think I am going to go over to Ashleighs for dinner on Thursday and then on Saturday break out the Whiskey Sours and celebrate.  I have to say its very weird for me not being home for Thanksgiving- its my first major holiday away from home! but Ill be home soon enough so Im not too worried about it.

Not much else is going on. Lacrosse is still going really well. I have the occasional boy that causes me hell when I am coaching but besides that they are a really great group of kids. Im trying to figure out what I am going to do over the summer/ the end of spring .. looking into working a couple of camps over here that pay well. Hoping that I will have lots of Visitors soon :)

Wellll not quite sure how I missed this gem of a story- So about two weeks ago I noticed that all the lights on one side of my car would not turn off. Then the indicator lights wouldnt turn on and my hazards went soon after that. After much dismay and hitting all the buttons on the dash and turning my car on and off about 50 times I realized that we had a problem. So I called up the garage and brought the car in - turns out the motherboard gave up. Which was GREAT for me since I drive just about everywhere. I had to take cabs everywhere and that was a great big pain. At one point I was on the phone with the cab company and he was telling me I was in the wrong place looking for him- we went back and forth for about 10 minutes on where I was to meet him and ended up he was at a different school ... 20 minutes away. SO just as I hung up it began to rain and I had to wait out in the rain for quite a bit of time before I was rescued. It was probably one of the most stressful weeks since I have been here. The garage kept telling us that I would have my car back the next day and they next day .. well a week later - I finally got it back.  


We are suppose to get six inches of snow tomorrow.. oh GOODY. I though that moving to England meant that I was going to escape the snow and just have to deal with the rain. well that thought was completely false. I feel betrayed by the weather of my new country.  All I have to say is it better hold off until December 12th at 10 am or else. 

Miss you all xx

Out in Guilford before Half Term

Ashleigh 

At my Birthday

Just some more pictures from the Term!

Spain and Birthday!

Back from a really good half term - although it has been confirmed that my life is murphys law. all things that could go wrong - did haha. We left for Linares on sunday to stay with Megan for the week - we flew into Madrid and then took a 3 hour train to her town where she picked us up. That night we went out for Tapas and drinks - which is the greatest idea ever invented. You pay 1.30 Euros for a glass of wine and then you pick off of a menu what kind of food you want and it is included free. Brilliant if you ask me. Then tuesday morning we got up before the sun and headed into Jaen (pronounced hi-en) megan had some stuff to do for work so we joined her. The city was pretty cool- except on mondays all the museums and historical sites are closed because apparently people dont work then. So we just walked around and I cant complain- the views were amazinggg. however - the whole city is built on a hill so that made for quite the walk around town.

Then we went to Granada - we got up real early again and caught the bus first to Jaen and then to Granada. When we got there we headed right to the Alhambra to buy tickets but typical to my life they were all sold out at 10 am. So to make up for it we headed to what megan likes to call "arab land" and did some serious shopping.  I bought a  bunch of things for my family and then we went and had lunch in the big plaza. We saw a few cathedrals and just walked around and enjoyed the sun for the day. Then we headed back to Linares for more tapas with megan and some of her flat mates and some friends from her program. - its crazy to me how late they stay out and how smokey everything is. They are allowed to smoke where ever and my clothes REEK ... my bedroom smells like smoke after unpacking my bags. The tapas were SO good though.

Then we stayed in Linares on Wednesday and walked around Megans town. We went up to the bull ring where Manolete fought and died , which was pretty cool. We looked around in a bunch of the different shops and then met megan for lunch at a local restaurant. after that we went back and packed and got ready to head to madrid. Our last night in Linares we went out for tapas and drinks with megan and all of her friends- where we ate bull testicles. We went to this bar that was dedicated to bull fighting and they had bull heads on the walls and some of the outfits that have been worn- it was really cool. Then we went to this "american" bar and there were big Indian statues and what I would imagine they think are american things. It was really funny- but it was fun.

We stayed in Madrid on the last night of spain - we took the train in and then had to take the underground and a cab to find our hotel. once we found our hotel and got checked in we headed into madrid to see the royal palace, cathedral and the plaza del sol. I wish we could have spent more time there but it was good to just go in for a few hours and look around.

We got home on Friday and met Brittany at the airport and came back to the house. we ran out to the store and picked up mexican food for dinner and some cider. we hung out for the night and just played some drinking games and relaxed after a

 long week of traveling.  On saturday I had to coach but had fancy dress practice! It was a lot of fun and then after practice we ran to sainsburys to pick up halloween costumes ( I was an Indian ) and then headed to a lacrosse club for a party. It was alot of fun and nice to hang out with people that I havnt seen in a while

Today I am just resting and trying to catch up on sleep .. which may take a week or two haha. but luckly the clocks change tonight in the UK!!! so I will be getting an extra hour of sleep tonight :) Thats all for now!




all my love xx

Half Term

Hi all-

Headed off to Espana for a much needed break! SOO excited to go explore, shop and catch up with miss megan! I promise when I return there will be a lengthy blog with lots of pictures!

Miss you all! xx

Lovely Weather

Hi All,

Me on the Thames in Richmond

Hope everyone had a good weekend! The weather here has been AMAZING for the last three days, a real Indian summer! This weekend was a good one, I was going to go into london for the day and explore the markets with a friend - but typical to my life the train was pulling away as we bought our tickets. SO we ended up going up to richmond and walking on the Thames / shopping for the day. It was so nice to just relax and hang out for the day!! Other then that I had a nice 3 day weekend because I am no longer going to Godalming College on Mondays so I sat outside for a few hours and read a book. Which I miss doing since I have no read much since camp ended.

Richmond Green

                                                                                    

Excited for the next couple of weeks. The last week in October I am headed to Spain with a friend I met over here and we are staying with Miss Megan. Halloween weekend a couple of people are staying at my house to celebrate my birthday. We are having a Mexican/ Margarita themed evening and then the next night we are headed out for Halloween festivities. I am making practice Halloween weekend Fancy Dress and I will obviously be going all out. Ill take lots of pictures! Then Miss Nell and Miss Meg will be here in the beginning of November! :)


This week is not very exciting - had 2 sessions today. I LOVE the kids I coach from this one school Hurst Park.  So we are not suppose to hug/touch the kids - like nothing because parents are crazy and its just for our safety and all the kids were hugging me today and I was so awkward and didnt know what to do. just stood there like uhhhhh you cant touch me haha. and they thought it was REALLY funny so they all kept coming up and hugging me. oh man.  But they were really cute, we only have one more class period and then it moves to after school club and they were literally down on their hands and knees begging me not to leave after next week. sooo cute.

Thats it for now! miss you all xx

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY TO DOUG AND LINDSAY!!!! love you both lots and lots and I am so sad that I cant be there to celebrate with you! We are going to have to celebrate all of our birthdays when I get home in December!!

xoxox