So today was my first day in an American school.  I was due to go to the Young Scholars Charter School which was in Center City.  I had to get up early to get the train to Suburban and then the Subway to Girard St.  After that I had to walk a couple of blocks.  As the school was not in the best of areas, they didn't really advertise it.  But ( Read more... )

So today I went and explored South Street.  I love it, little shops, lots of food places that look half decent. Looked like there was a couple of small record shops.  Went in one but no Kaiser vinyl.  I'm gonna go back down to South Street another day when I have more time ( Read more... )

It was really hot and sunny yesterday, in fact I got a little sunburn.  It was about 27 oC.  Yes thats right, it was 27oC and I got sunburnt in March ( Read more... )

After blogging last night, I went downstairs and had a good chat with Greg.  We talked about cultural differences and music.  It was quite amusing.  Then Stoobs came home and Greg managed to persuade him to have a booze and Monopoly night tonight ( Read more... )

Today I braved the shower again.  I say braved because the temperature seems to range from freezing cold to lukewarm... well at least it wakes you up in the morning...  I think I might have figurted out how to get the water to go warm.  I'll try it next time.  The cold water isn't helped by the fact the shower sort of spits it at you.  Theres that ( Read more... )

Non-Sweat Shirts

Take 1 long sleeved shirt.
Take 2 sanitary towels... (yes you did read that right)

Attach sanitary towels to inside of shirt at the armpits
Sweat comfortably in the knowledge that 1) no one will see your sweat patches 2) The sweat will be deodorised
Removed sanitary towels and stick shirt in the wash
Extra sanitary towels available for ( Read more... )

So today was a bit of a realxing day.  Got up and had breakfast which consisted of coffee, pancakes with maple syrup and ham.  They were lovely.  We looked through the paper and cut out any coupons that we would need.  There was also a seperate paper full of cartoons :D

Played with the cat for a bit before we headed out.  We went to this retail park ( Read more... )

Was pretty much on my own today.  Got dropped off at the Wawa store (sort of like a little supermarket, like those Tesco express of the co-ops you get)  It was so cool, its got like a little take away in it, so you can get coffee, donuts and bread rolls (known here as hoagies ( Read more... )

My blogs are gonna be out of sync coz I'll be trying to do the rest of my Kaiser ones in between the Philadelphia ones.

Day 0 (Ie the day I arrived)

Actually managed to leave Manchester this time, which was something.  Got interrogated before I managed to check in, which wasn't the most pleasent experience.  I felt like a criminal.  I ended up with a ( Read more... )

Got to the hotel and couldn't get into the room, stupid keycard :(  sorted myself out and went down to the venue.

When I got there, Helen, Kev, Maria, Moomin and Mullet were already queuing.  Disco, Tracey, Hobbo and Bob (to be henceforth known as Hinge and Bracket) were in the pub, the alcoholics :p  We were being told about the previous night's ( Read more... )