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I’ve only just started to get used to the heat by the way.
My wife spent a little over half a year in London for work. It took awhile to get used to "cold and raining", and we still play a game called "Is it raining in London?", wager, then check on our phones to see who won.
I guess 100 degree heat is a bit worse than 65 degrees and light rain.
Our friends from the UK are baffled by how much people in the US identify with their schools and collegiate athletics. They couldn't even tell us what their university participated in...they thought they might have a rowing team, but they weren't sure.
Browsing the blog, I saw this
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On the topic of things I haven’t yet seen, I’ve been lucky enough to not see one of the things that Texas is most famous for… Guns. Long may that continue!
...and I was just about to tell this story. While in the UK, I stopped by a pub in a town west of London. There was some idiotic American in there regaling the entirety of the clientele with the stories of how dangerous America was, as if the entirety of its 3,794,101 sq mi was exactly like inner-city Detroit.
He told everyone seated at the bar that in America, you have to carry 40 dollars with you wherever you go in case you get mugged, OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE KILLED.
Everyone nodded in agreement and the bartender interjected a "Yeh, thass Ameriga for yeh".
I've always wished I'd embarrassed that guy and called him a liar in front of everyone, but I'm fairly introverted and stood nothing to gain from it.
So I hope that's something you can take back with you to the UK. There are a lot of people who own guns in the US, and especially in Texas, but you can see that we aren't toting them around shooting them in the air when the team scores a touchdown. I don't intend to make this an entirely firearm related discussion, as I understand people from other countries and certainly within our own country have different opinions on guns.
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seek out Dr. Hudson. He taught my History of England course. Friendly guy.
Also very funny. Dry wit and sarcasm. He would have made a joke and continued on with a lecture without changing his pace or expression.
I thought the UK was a wonderful country. I hope you continue to have a good experience in my home state and town.
[This message has been edited by Lance Uppercut (edited 9/18/2013 4:34p).]
