FIRST AMERICAN FOOTBALL GAME

I shall write very soon....got a migraine at the moment :P

please see this link for pictures of Wednesday & Thursday activity

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Up date you....

heya my lovlies
hope you are having a good bank holiday weekend, some of you are going to the Carnival others are not. Fair enough. Not to rub it in but I have perfect Carnival where I am but hey am not going to rub it in like I said.
Well you been asking what have I been up & I love the questions but I am goin to have to be super organized to be giving regular updates...please can some of you download skype so that you can hear the excitemet & surprising disgust in my voive lol :) not like am mean out here or anything.
So whilst you decide whether or not you are going to the Carnival or what you're going to do tomorrow etc (or for some of you getting things together for Uni), let me tell you wasup...
so Thursday was the first day of ''class'', talk about being ''chuffed''. excuse my language been with the English students most of the week, but hang tight I will be informing you about the Americans very soon *just one footnote, I am a sophmore, so technically a second year in America, but most of them have made allegiances from their first year aka they are in cliques already, not like am making any excuses for myself 'cause they love it when I open my mouth lol :P but yes! it'll take a while just remember your fresher experience last year :(, lol yep am back there, I doubt I will be as lucky as I was in Warwick, p.s shout out to the Warwickers, lvoe & miss you* but that said and done, I have met a couple of real funny Americans & we get on like a house on fire, pics shall soon come.
btw it's Frat week, so all the Fraternities have started their partying :), I may go to one on Thrusday but watch this space...the thing about American parties, is the can get ''busted'' by the ''cops'' & people get fines or arrested for drinking & ''disturbances'' so I gotta ''watch my back lol''
anyway..umm yes class started on Thrusday, again fresher feeling again and again, but I have an excuse since am ''foreign'' I can just talk to anyone (guys :-) )cough cough moving along..yes Lego, i wish I was studying Somalian but they do not offer that where I am..nonsense..I am doing US since 1865, Film&Political Change, Psychology& the Afro-American Experience & Intro to Afro American Studies *shout out to Sam, my lad from Leeds that's doing that module with me, I will come & steal music from your laptop after I have done this blog :)*
umm first pep rally on Tuesday :) and first game on Thursday, have I already said that.
No more laziness...GYM! was there today :) felt good...but got to be eating double now, so I put weight on burn some and tone at the same time.....don't roll your eyes at me KMT! :p
umm whatelse? i don't know, ask me questins no matter how stupid they are...or are there are specifics that you will like me to share?
let me know

*shout out to the Soldiers who opened my jammed bedroom door with two butter knives :)*

love you
sweet
AMF

PLEASE WRITE TO ME PEOPLE

I told you about my blog because I want us to converse :)
so tell me what's good bad & just plainly worng, you can do this publicly or provately or facebook me :)
love you all

by the way went to the pool today & got brownER :) love it!
got Wednesday & Friday off but finish at 8pm on Monday Tuesday & Thursday-gutted

excitement! classes start on Thursday...more to dish as the time goes on
xx

It’s been three days. I am waiting for the technician to come and fix the ‘’jax’’ in my room that will get me on the “Ethernet”. Hmm. So what has been going on? I moved from the hotel in West Columbia to USC. Got to the Uni at about 12pm on Friday. Had to get i.d card and go to my room etc. To be honest the first day wasn’t to eventful, wait now that I go over it, it was quite eventful lol. O.k got to my room, but my housemates hadn’t arrived. Took a walk to find food (across the road literally), to find that one of the campus food “outlets” was closed, in fact all of them would be closed till Sunday ,. Fair enough. First shout out goes to the guy who was sitting in the outlet on his ‘cell’ & I asked if there was anyone around serving food and he said he thinks so, to go on to ask where am I from, I respond London & he says and I quote “I like that”…lol, just think of how Chingy would say it :P I know I have issues.

Anyway I walk out of there and find myself in Wendy’s J after Wendy’s I had back to my room & it starts to rain L….rain….RAIN! humid hot muggy rain. Ok. Get back to my room, “chill” a lil, then head of the Walmart with other international students. Get on the bus and everyone congregates together according to where they are from…a Dutch guy comes & sits next to me….and he has the most hilarious *just thought of the Chinese woman from Big Bro this year* sense of humor…or as some would say he is classic, quality or simply a legend. Yeh so he my “buddy” now. Got to Walmart…HUGE! Tesco aint NOTHING! Got a tonne load of stuff, nah am lying , just bed stuff, lil bit of food & ”school supplies”. Second shout out to the super woman behind the till that bagged all my stuff…amazing! Ok so shopping done. I thought the bus leaves at 5.45 to head back to campus…at 6.10 I find out that the bus aint coming till 6.45…hmm here comes the third shout out…MASSIVE shout out to the superwoman who cut, layered and straightened my hair in 20mins J yes Walmart has a hairdresser, would have got my nails done if I had more time lol!

Shout out to my flat mates!!!!!!!!!!!!

Shout out to the American soldier I met on Saturday!!!!!!!!!

Shout out to the American who had to be stereotypical in the club & entertain the British lads and lasses by given a “Step Up” style dance :P, see facebook for pictures

Shout out to the guy who had to fix my internet but instead wanted me to say “Harry Potter has arrived at Hogwarts”

Shout out to the South Quad crew & all those who love my accents J

Shout out to the manufacturers of the USC clothing line *that will be modelled by yours truly very soon* for making shorts that says “Cocks” on the back…*short for GameCocks, the name of the Uni’s American football team- first game next Thursday J*

Massive shout out to the sporting facilities in the States, that have a gym that uses your finger prints to check that you’re a student & not have to pay $500 a month for membership in the beautifulest gym I have ever seen *would have taken pictures but did not want to look like a nob*

Shout out to the Olympic size indoor pool & resort size outdoor pool & volleyball area J..gona use that tomorrow

(gona try & include the important stuff on this thing)

Love u

AMF

oh Carolina!

So let me paint the picture for you. By yourself in a hotel in the middle of West Columbia, South Carolina watching American TV showing everything from Opra’s view on the Obama campaign, to sophisticated TV pawn broking of personal item, to “varsity football”. You realise that hey this is another world. Fell asleep whilst waiting for Chinese to be delivered *got to love the Internet, if it was not for it I would be a goner, have you seen how small I am, my mum did not put me on a plane to perish within 24hours, no Sirry*
So American football, making me heavily anticipate my first match that I will go by the end of next week, aswell as start “lessons” at the same time, even though guys haven’t dreamed of going back to lectures…oh well the difference is I will be going to lectures in 70degrees plus :)
When I got to Atlanta at 1pm *6pm London time*, I started singing to myself “welcome to Atlanta where the players play & we ride on *&%$ nearly everyday”. Atlanta’s airport was nice, very spacious and efficient and I soon boarded for South Carolina. I think that people here can see when you’re not from the State or America in general. It took a while to realise that I was stick thin and looked different from many of the women who were working in the airport… shall come back to that another time
Flight to South Carolina was beautiful at 27,000 feet above the ground, so I could see the little blue circles that sat behind most of the houses J need to get a friend with a pool in their backgarden mayne! Columbia Metropolitan Airport was quaint & I was met there by Woody, no not from Toy Story but from the University’s welcome service *they take this college football serious here, like our Premiership, just saw an advert to buy the ESPN package for $109 to watch 12 matches each Saturday, these guys are in high demand, might have to get me one of them J*
Woody drove me to my hotel and I got myself acquinted and had to get in touch with my “mom” asap….
Just want to say some holdtights *copyright of MisterLego* or should I say shout outs…To every who I did and did not speak to before I left, all of you I saw and spoke to the night before, thanks for the texts messages that were sent even though I was in the middle of nowhere, probably by Alaska or something. Let me how things are for you all respectively..I am your canvas and will be seeing if the stereotypes that exist on either side of the Atlantic prevail..to let you know the good bad & the ugly…and to let you know that all is not well…lol am expecting some rough times similar to first year in regards to sleeping lol
(this was boring …but more shall come)

AFM