It snowed today! At least, I saw snow coming from the sky but I don't think any of it stuck to the ground. It wasn't very much, though it did at first look like a lot but that was really the wind blowing it around. However, I saw snow and some people freaked out and put their hoods up and others started running (presumably to get out of the snow) and it was really really funny, especially since I received an email from my Mom yesterday about kids staying home from school because the pipes were freezing. The coldest it has been here has been 41 degrees F.

I had a lecture today that was quite good - learned about Martin Luther and the beginning of the Reformation. Martin Luther was quite a strange individual, if you ask me. Also, it turns out that he spent most of his life suffering from constipation and thought it was God punishing him. He also felt that God was right in punishing him. I think there was some definite depression/some kind of psychosis going on.

After that lecture, I went to a Subway with some friends - it wasn't bad but not as good as Cousins at home. In fact, I don't think it was as good as Subway at home. I think they lied to me when they told me the bread I had was Italian. Then we went to a pub called The Pied Bull - I didn't drink, but a few others did. I refused because it was 3 o'clock in the afternoon. We talked for about 45 minutes until some of them had to go on to another lecture. It was one that I've been a guest to before, and while I'm not taking it officially I have permission to come and listen in if I feel like it. However, today they were learning about the Atom bomb and I still have notes on my computer from learning about that last semester and didn't feel like going. So I stayed at the pub a bit longer and chatted with the other two that stayed because one didn't have that lecture and the other one doesn't go to the university - his girlfriend (who is quite lovely and nice) does.

Tomorrow I have plans to finally pay my accommodation if I can find the building where I'm supposed to pay it, I have another lecture, and then I'm meeting one of the girls I've made friends with for some shopping. The girls here really dress up when they go out and while I'm really not much for all that fuss, I don't want to stand out too much either. So I'm hoping I can find one or two things that don't cost a lot and won't take up too much room in my suitcase when I get home. No matter what I buy I'll have to be conscious of that, because otherwise I'd have to ship it home and it would probably cost a lot.

I also need to find out where the post office is. I promised people postcards and I mean to keep that promise. Then I have to figure out where the Porter's Lodge (whatever it's called ) is on campus ... that's where my mail will be sent to and I signed up for a bank account at Barclays and my cash card should have come by now. Still have to figure out how to get my money from M&I transferred - can't transfer it online and even if I could do it over the phone, mine still isn't set up. I bought the charger but I think I need a new SIM card - I'm hoping to pick that up tomorrow as well.

Not really sure what my weekend plans are besides homework/studying/working on a paper.

Hope you all are doing well!