Costume Ball && Football Game!

Hellooooooo Everyone!
This week hasn't been anything great. I've been VERY busy with projects and papers galore! But that's ok.. once they're all turned in, then I'm done with hard stuff until finals! Yay! :)

Friday night was the Costume Ball! I went as a "Babe Magnet".. Hehe. I wrapped myself in foil and stuck pictures of hott boys on me. The magazines my mom sent me were put to good use! Lol. Leah was Sandy from Grease, and Elizabeth was Queen Elizabeth. It was so much fun! We had a date auction that night too, and the money went to charity. It was so funny! We had a bunch of students get "sold" and then two of our professors, and one of the staff members were "sold" as well. It was hilarious to see! We danced and danced.. It was a great time!

Then this morning, we got up and went to Nottingham. We went to a Notts County Football (our soccer) match. It was the Notts County Magpies against Macclesfield. It was so fun! We got a tour of the grounds, visited the changing rooms. We had lunch and then met the managers of the team, the coach, and some of the players. Oh my! They were soo cute! They were injured so they took pictures with us! Yay! Come game time it was a bit cold.. but still soo fun! English people are CRAZY about their football.. it's like a religion. And boy do they get angry at the refs.. the other team.. their own players.. lol. It was intense. It was soo cool to see a match though, and to see/hear the fans!

This week is going to be a busy one.. Finishing up my projects and my last paper. Then I'm off to Germany on Thursday! Woo!

Miss you all!
Love,
Tiffany

Football Pictures!:

Costume Ball Pictures!

Bonjour Paris!

Oh my goodness! Paris was soo much fun! We left England on Wednesday.. we drove to London from school. Then headed to Waterloo to take the EuroStar to Paris. For those of you that don't know, the Eurostar is a train that goes through the English Channel. They built a tunnel through the water, that you can drive through or take the Eurostar. It was very cool knowing I was going through the water! But I wish I would have been able to tell that I was underwater! We got in Paris at around 9pm and headed for the hotel. In the first hour I was there.. I saw about 8 couples making out!! Seriously! It was ridiculous! We were pretty hungry when we got to the hotel so we went to McDonald's. Again with the expensive-ness.. but oh well. We were terribly hungry! Lol. That night we stayed at the hotel and went to bed early.

On Thursday, we got up pretty early. We had bfast at the hotel... oh my gosh! French bread is amazing!! The bfast at the hotel slightly sucked.. not many options.. but the bread was soo good. Then we headed for the metro! Hailey, Leah and I were a bit nervous about taking the metro at first. But we were able to figure things out perfectly! Our first stop was that Louvre. It's a museum.. we heard the line was normally pretty long so we got there extra early. We were the 3rd people in line! Yayyayay! We wanted to see the Mona Lisa and we had heard she always has huge crowd. Since we were 3rd in line, we got there super early! And there wasn't a huge crowd at all! We saw the Mona Lisa.. and I was not disappointed at all!! Lol. Granted she was a little small.. but she wasn't as small as I thought she would be. So I was pumped!! Then we saw the "Venus De Milo" (The Perfect Women). She's a pretty funny statue because she has no arms.. but yet she's the perfect woman. Like I said, odd right? We walked around the museum a litte bit longer, saw everything we wanted to see.. and then headed to the Notre Dame. The Notre Dame.. oohh.. it was a slightly cool cathedral. It was amazingly huge and cool on the outside, and totally cool because it's so famous. But inside was kind of blah, the stain glass windows were the only cool things. I have to say that the English totally have cooler Cathedrals. Next stop was the Eifel Tower. That was the most amazing thing about Paris! By far my favorite part.. I'm not what it is about the Eifel Tower that makes it so amazing.. but whatever it is.. it's amazing. Again I saw more French people making out.. ugh! Then we headed to Arc De Triumphe. You probably don't know what it is by the name.. but the picture you'll recognize! Very cool place! (Sunday, Nov. 11 was Armistice Day and the President of French gave his speech here.) We went back to the hotel and took a little nap/rest our feet. And then we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. It was a little expensive... but soooo amazing! My burger was absolutely amazing. No joke. We went back to the hotel and went to bed early since we were going to Disney the next day. We tried really hard to go to bed early, but I was sooo excited I couldn't sleep. I kept talking and giggling.. Lol. Leah told me I wasn't going to be able to go if I didn't shut up.. finally I calmed down and before I knew it.. it was morning!

Friday was Disney Day!! Yayayayay! It took us about 25 mins. by metro/train to get there from our hotel. When we got to the park.. we were amazed!! It was soo cool! It's the 15th anniversary of the park so it's decorated better then normal. The day was a little crappy, it was cold and not very sunny... We waited in line to buy our tickets and then headed to our first ride! We went on the Phantom Manor (The Haunted Mansion at home..) and it seemed slightly scarier because it was in french and we couldn't understand what they were saying. Lol. However some of the rides had some parts in french and then other parts were in english... a little odd. But whatever, it was nice to hear english. :) The castle is different as well from the castles at home.. We spent the whole day riding rides.. Sooo much fun! We watched the parade, which was very cool! The characters all spoke French, except for Timon. Somehow he always spoke English. Odd huh? We went to dinner a little later, and then headed back to the hotel. Haily, Leah and I were all exhausted from our exciting day.

Saturday we slept in a little bit. It was basically our shopping day. We did some souvenir shopping and walked around Paris. Then went back to the hotel for a nap. We went back to the Eiffel Tower at night to watch it light up and sparkle. Soooo gorgeous! Totally my favorite! Then we went to the Moulin Rouge and looked at that all lite up. It wasn't as cool as I thought it was going to be.. not very flashy. But still fun to see!

Sunday we got up and then headed for the Eurostar back to London! It was exciting to be going back to English!

All-in-all France was a pretty cool place.. Not as dirty as I thought it would be, but still had ton of graffiti everywhere. And the French don't really know how to "queue" (form a line) very well. They don't really understand that concept quite well. And I did miss the english language very much! But the peopel did speak English to me, I just couldn't understand anything anywhere else.. Lol. Still a fun trip though, wouldn't trade it for anything!

See you soon!

Miss you all!

Xoxo,

Tiffany

Paris Videos!

Hey guys! Here's some randoms videos from Paris!

Guy Fawkes Bonfie Night!

Hello all! This is going to be a short little blog before my big long Paris blog! Last week on Monday [[nov. 5]] Hailey and I went to school with Sue. She teaches 5-7 years old. She was doing a safety walk with them around town, and needed extra help. The kids all wanted to be our special partner. They loved our accents, and asked us where we were from. They all wanted to know if we talked funny because we were from America. It was way too funny. They were all really cute and showed me all of there loose teeth and the teeth that they had lost. Oh goodness. Can't wait to teach little kids!

Tuesday night, we had a bonfire at school. Monday was Guy Fawkes day. That's the day that he went to parliament and tried to blow it up. It didn't work and he was burned, so now every year they have bonfires in remembrance. Monday was a little busy at school, so we had the bonfire on Tuesday. It was really cool! We had smores and cadbury chocolate covered apples. Yum Yum!

Wednesday was spent finishing up packing and then it was off to Paris! But more on that in the next post.

Hope all is well for everyone at home! See you all soon!

Miss you.

Love,
Tiffany