Cheers

Last night was my first real night out in London. My roommate Emilia and myself went to ULU to drink at their bar. Yeah, their University has a bar in it. We were expecting it to be pretty dull--and it was--until we realized why everyone was looking up at the televisions with the drink prices on it.

It was set up like a stock market-- the prices would go up and down depending on what people were buying. Every once and a while, the market would crash and we'd all rush to the bar for cheap drinks. The most expensive drink I saw was a pint of Fosters at £2.50 (around $5) and the cheapest was Vodka Blue, something like Smirnoff Ice for £0.70. I ended up somewhere in the middle, having two pints of cider at a steady £2 apiece. Surprisingly, it ended up being ridiculously fun.

We ended up making friends with the kids who had stacks and stacks of empty pints at their table, which included a guy from Newcastle with an awesome Geordie accent and a kid who we later found out was 15 years old. 15! Seriously, when I was 15 I was probably still playing Pokemon!

Anyway, the Geordie was almost unintelligible at first but once I got used to it, I realized it is incredibly fun to speak. Here's a little lesson in Geordie for you:

divn't = don't, as in "Ah divn't smo-ekh!"

"Ahm gahn yahm" = I'm going home

It sounds kind of like Scottish... but cooler.


The Geordie and our new Bulgarian friend


Emilia and I home after a long night of... ping pong...

Just so this post isn't all about beer, here's what I'm up to for a while:
Today - Meeting a friend at Piccadilly Circus to see a new part of London
Tomorrow - Guided tour of King's Cross to get to know my part of London
Sunday - Coach tour of London (wow I sound like a tourist! I should wear my fannypack "bum bag")
Monday - CLASS. ugh.

And finally, one of my old favorite British bands:

Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen in Love

Cheers!