I found this on my travels, and it amused me greatly: . Who knew ‘disambiguation’ was even a word?? The Internet in general baffles me – what kind of place is it where you can get the entire transcript of ‘Trainspotting’ for free, but you can’t get a free copy of musical notation for ‘Peter and the Wolf’??
Anyway.
I forgot to mention the carrot parrot in my last entry, so when Tom emails me the pictures, you will be treated to that plus a picture of me dressed up as a witch/cat. Thrilling.
Yesterday I went swimming for the second time with Jenni. The pool is only a short walk away, and it’s generally quite quiet in the mornings, so I really enjoy going there. Plus the showers are a lot nicer than the one in my room 
So anyway, yesterday morning was so quiet that I had a whole lane to myself. I should probably explain at this point that each lane is clearly labelled: ‘Slow, Clockwise’, ‘Medium, Anti-Clockwise’ etc., basic signs showing speed and direction of swimmers in that lane. So I’m minding my own business enjoying a leisurely swim in the ‘Slow, Clockwise’ lane, when Evil Woman gets in to the pool and starts swimming very fast, anti-clockwise. GRRRR. She clearly couldn’t handle the fact that I had a lane to myself (although the other lanes only had 2-3 people in anyway), and she ruined my swim with her thrashing and wrong-directioness for about ten minutes, until another girl got in. This girl started swimming slow and clockwise, and between us we thwarted Evil Woman’s evil swimming, and she moved into another lane. Yay! I hate entitlement bitches. Grrr.
My lecturer for English Lit. scares me. She forgot the plural of ‘poet’ yesterday and had to ask us. And so far, Shakespeare is boring, and Wordsworth and Hardy ramble. According to her. She irritates me quite a lot, especially with her long-winded questions. They are so long everyone loses the thread of what she’s saying and so we sit there, silent and confused, trying to work it out. Yesterday, this prompted a, ‘Has anyone actually read the poems?’ from her, which really pissed us off. Grrr.
And my Lang. and Context seminar teacher is also very annoying…for geeky English reasons that I won’t go into (apart from to say ‘triplet’ vs ‘tripartite structure’). He’s very condescending…he explained to us what ‘personification’ was the other day, like none of us have done SATs English. Or GCSE English. Or A level English 
Oh, and I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but this happened in the first week I started uni (I can’t believe it’s been a month now)…I was on the bus going into town. It was pretty crowded, there were probably around 50-60 people on it, including students, old people, parents with their kids, etc.
Suddenly….
American Girl: *in a high-pitched aww sweet bunny rabbit voice* OMG!! Look at that lamp post!!
*Everyone on the bus turns to look at said lamp post. Seeing just a normal lamp post, everyone looks at each other in confusion*
American Girl: It’s soooo cute!!
*Everyone on the bus starts grinning at each other*
5 mins later, we’re driving past a street of semi-detached houses…
American Girl: OMG!!! Is that a house?!?!?!? Do people live there?!?!?!?!
Seriously people, if you come to England, have been here at least a week and haven’t seen a lamp post or a house, you must have been living under a rock.
Okay I gotta go collect my washing and get ready for a lecture, so I’ll blog and return comments soon! 
*waves* Hi, I'm 
hahaha! Americans are so dumb sometimes! =P But we love em for it!
If I’d have been in your English lesson, I couldn’t have let a guy teach me stuff I already knew from Sats and be all superior about it, I would’ve said something. I’d probably got kicked off teh course but still.
I missed your last blog, but I’ve replied to it now.
xxx
Haha if you think thats bad, I got asked by a liverpudleian if we have TV’s in Manchester. WTF?!
Your English ‘lessons’ sound like they would really confuse me! I hate English grrrr.
:S What actually did the American Girl expect when she came to England? That everyone lived in those (too) huge houses like they live in there? Pfff… (no offence to any Americans!!)
People starting to swim anti-clockwise when everyone’s swimming clockwise are so annoying. My friend and I once went to a pool and this woman did it too and we thwarted that woman’s swimming too and she also went into another lane.
Your English Lit. lecturer sounds quite stupid. So does your English Lang. lecturer…
Wow, swimming? Now it’s too cold to swim where I live! Well, maybe at an indoor pool. LOL. Anyways, hehe about the American girl. I wonder if I’d be like that if I go to England… LOL.
I’m a wikipedia freak, so I’ve gotten so used to the word disambiguation now
I hate teachers who act like that, especially when they keep repeating the same stuff. As if class isn’t boring enough already.
The internet is weird indeed, but really usefull too. Right now I’m reading the entire Dracula book online. I’m way too lazy to go to a library.
God, even I know what personification means and I’m not even english
Americans can be so annoyingly dramatic at times!!
I bet the pics from the rag-raid are awesome, cant wait to see!
so this is how you comment. ive not tried before, but cnsidering i read your blog often, i think i should, as i get pretty pissed off when people say they read mine and dont comment. having said that, pah, nm.
yes your english lectures do sound daft, but my media lecture gave 4 lectures on semiotics….we did it all at A level. Guess theyre just covering themselves.
Lol! Bless the Americans they can be really funny sometimes:P Just with silly comments.. although i’m the same… i was walking along the beach with a mate and some lady was building a sculpture and i goes “Where’d she get all that sand”
I’m just as stupid! Lmao. Glad you thwarted annoying swimmer;) Cya!
- Leah xXx
haha this is why i’m ashamed to be an American. :S
Then again, I could possibly see myself acting like that… but not over a LAMP POST. Yeah maybe the really narrow streets (compared to some wider ones here) or uhh I donno… haven’t been to England, so i can’t really say…
Picture this…
a picture
N’est-ce pas?
Lol, i love americans, they get excited of the smallest things.
What is the plural of poet? isn’t it just Poets?
Your English lectures sound thrilling…. almost as good as mine…
Although I have hear these stories from you before, I still laugh at them and the american girl… I can relate with that… I can be so blonde sometimes. As for teachers teaching you stuff you already know… my maths teacher tried showing up that 1+3=3+1 and the it equals 4! ok well peace out!
nika x
This entry makes me want to never ever visit the USA.
Jess. x
Lol. A cute lampost? That’s the funniest thing ever!
Glad you managed to thwart the evil woman and her swimming! Hehe.
xxx
im american (and proud of it) but was that girl blonde? i mean wow..she REALLY made a a-s-s of herself.
gorgeous lay by the way!
Dayamn, that’s so funny! We had an english teacher like that who tried to teach us the meaning of words we allready knew. She was wierd though, so wierd it was scary. Or maybe she was just realy scary? Anyways. I’m glad you have a swimming pool near you. We have one in our town, but I’m allways to lazy to go there.
So funny about the american girl. She must’ve been living under a rock or something!
Goodness the teacher of the girl below me taught her class things they knew before! But not how to spell wEIrd! Strange indeed…