Lets face it..

I am a wimp when it comes to cold conditions. I don't think my body can physically maintain an internal temperature of 98 degrees F. I am sitting on the floor in front of the heater in the library. Its bad. No, Mom and Dad, you don't need to send me warmer clothes. I have plenty. I probably just need to do some jumping jacks regularly to warm up. ha.

Anyway, this morning I started my day off with a large bowl of oatmeal after waking up at 9:38 (I know. lazy, but I wasn't feeling my best. And since my room mate was sick. I figured I could use some more rest!) . Then, I had to come to terms with something terrible: my growing laundry pile. Out of curiosity and my frugal self, I didn't pay for a washer. Nope, I did it the old fashioned way. I used the laundry sink to hand wash my clothes and used a crank to rinse out the water. Of course, I couldn't figure out how the free dryer worked so my clothes are hanging up in the pottery room on the clothes lines. Its been almost 10 hours. and the clothes haven't dried at all. I will probably need to try to figure out how the dryer works soon.

Latter on, Mychaela, Danielle, and I went into town to do some errands. Our first stop, Strawberry Lounge Bakery:) I got a plum scone, buttered, jammed, and heated for a quid. Amazingly delicious. I almost got another one. Then, we went around Alnwick looking at different places we are thinking about volunteering. We have to do 10 hours of community service while we are here. I don't think I will spend all my time at one place, but rather spread it out over several places. At the post office, I mailed some postcards and a letter. Rocky, a guy we meet at a pub works there and gave me a free envelope. That was nice. I didn't feel like buying the package of 50. Next, we went to Morisson's, the grocery store. Wow, that place was busy. We all picked up several items for the weekend. I got potatoes, onions, clementines, tortellini, Italian bread, and garlic sauce. They don't sell Alfredo sauce here.

The rest of the day was spent studying for our big history exam on Tuesday. Later, we took all of our new cooking ingredients and made an excellent supper. We had tortellini pasta with onions, mushrooms, garlic white sauce, and olive focaccia bread. I was so full. Danielle and Mychaela split a package of tortellini and couldn't finish their portions, while I just ate a whole package by myself. Ha. I guess I was hungry.

Although I should be more devoted to my studies. I have taken up reading a Jane Austen novel. Northanger Abbey. Its amazing how much more interesting those novels are when you understand all the places they are visiting and talking about all over England. The places in the novels all have much more meaning to me than they used to. It was so exciting to be able to identify with the characters better.

Right. That is probably enough for today. Back to studying the Tudor period.