Food, glorious food!

The new flatmate arrived! Kind of. She popped her head in on Thursday morning, said hi to Camille, who had her mouth full with breakfast and couldn't say anything at the moment, and disappeared before  Camille could finish her bite. Gemma and I never even saw her! All we know is that she's a girl and she  speaks English. And we haven't seen her since... It's the weirdest thing. 

Later that day, I had time to kill before my Mind and Body yoga-ish class, so I wandered into a used CD and record store... and quickly regretted it. The place was about the size of our kitchen at home, and every square inch was packed with stuff! There were boxes piled to the ceiling, and the pathway to navigate through the stacks was about a foot wide. The guy had about 1000 times too much merchandise. I was afraid that the CDs would topple on my head. Needless to say, I didn't buy anything. He wanted to charge me 16 pounds for a used, old CD of Scottish music; he said it was an import. From where?! It was Scottish!

That evening, I made dinner for Alex and myself- chicken cacciatore, a barley mix that I found at the grocery store, salad, and veggies with dill and garlic yogurt sauce. It was fun to be able to cook for someone again, and now I have tons of leftovers! We sadly forgot to take pictures of our feast, though.

But there was more food to come! Because we went to our first meeting for the University's Baking Society. You bring a baked good or a pound, and eat as much great homemade food as you want! Cheese Week was delicious. One guy, who didn't exactly follow the theme but oh well, made banana bread, and it was still warm when I had a piece. Not as good as Mom's, but still.

And the night before, we'd been exploring BBC online and discovered that The Great British Bake Off is indeed great. So much less ridiculous drama than American reality TV shows. And then you get to watch them create things like Chelsea buns, jam donuts, and "celebration" breads.

Life hasn't just been about food here, though. We had an interesting discussion about the state of education these days, and later on, the other American and I in my education class are going to present on the American education system as it compares with the UK one. I thought this was a pretty cool and very well-made video about some of the ideas floating around...

Happy Friday, everybody. Time to finally start studying.