Jay Walking in America

Funny concept but you get ticketed for it here. One student lets call him Larry informed me yesterday that there is a Cop that parks his car right next to the crossing that takes you to the halls of residence in an effort to catch students jay walking. When he catches his unsuspecting victim he then announces their offence over the car's loud speaker. Classy. With 10% of the US population in prison and the general high crime rate you would expect that he would have better things to do then ticket and humiliate students for jaywalking. 

I have mumps

Lovely lady mumps. No, they are not lovely, nor are they funny but please do feel free to laugh at my expense; I would. I look like a fat hamster. It is sadly an attempt to fit in with the rest of the populace. They hurt. I would liken it to being bashed in both cheeks with a bat. I have a golf ball size lump under my left jaw and am praying the other side does not do the same. As a result I have decided to cower in bed all day and hide my freakishness from the people outside. I could  have glandular fever and may die. If this is to be the case it has been great knowing you all (making large assumptions that people read this). Pity about dying on foreign soil. If I do go, I rest in the knowledge that I will not go alone, mumps are highly contagious. 

My film class

6.30pm - 9.20pm

Nearly three hours of 1820s to 1920s black and white silent film, need I say more. 

America ????

Well I am in the states and not wanting to seem like one of those people that are above the country they are visiting but I am. And I shall list the oddities I have discovered:

1) Everything is excessively large for no apparent reason.

eg. You want to buy tea, the smallest pack you are likely to find is 100

2) The toilets are unusual. They are very low, most don't have lids, the seat is not complete it has a gap at the front in the middle, the water level is very high, basically just under the seat.

3) America does not know what good coffee is, flat white? flat who?

4) The dinning commons, which is where I eat, serves donuts, cookies and waffles for breakfast. Nearly all of the cereals are sugar frosted. They also serve cheese burgers and soda (American for soft drink) at 7am, which I have witnessed rather large people tucking into.

5) People often have front bums.

6) Most people think I am from England, that's right folks not even Australia.

7) In coffee they put 'creamer' which is like milk or cream but has no dairy, is in powder form and is made out of hydrogenated corn syrup, containing 10 calories per 2 gram serving, no wonder they are fat. 

8) Being represented as the capitalist consumer country of the world the normal hours for a shop to open is 10am - 11am. Many shops are closed in the weekends and the city of Sacramento is very much dead on saturday and Sunday?? Who knew.

Well folks that is all for today. I will try to think of the novel things and the positives for next time (and yes there are some). In the mean time as O'bama says "God Bless America".