A Tourist-y Day

Fun Fact about England: It is against the law to have light switches or outlets in the bathrooms in England because they are worried people will electricute themselves by dropping things in the water. To turn on the light you pull a long string that hangs down from the light fixture.

Last night Kelsey, Bernice, Elizabeth and I all went to a pub for dinner. This is how a pub works, you go in and seat yourself and when you have decided what you want you go up to the bar and order your food (or drink). It was fun I had chicken and a salad, it was a lot of fun though. We sat around and talked and watched people dressed up in different costumes and walk up stairs to some private party. After we were going to go back to Bernice's house (she actually lives in a house not owned by the university) and watch the office. At her house we met her roommate Kate, she is an American and she is 31 and the "mother hen" of the house. We ended up talking to her for an hour or so, but it was lovely because she gave us a lot of useful information about banks, telephones, transportation, pretty much anything we could think of. After our millions of questions we tried to watch the office but it failed. Apparently hulu, pandora, and I think grooveshark do not work outside of the United States, we tried a website called surfthechannel but it said that we had watched 72 minutes that day (which was not true) so I will have to watch it another time, along with the biggest loser.
Kelsey, Elizabeth and I all walked home for the night it was about midnight when I got home, and I cam home to some noisy drunk people. One of my roommates had some people over and they drank a little too much. I went up stairs to see what was going on and found that only two of them were really drunk the other two were casually drinking. I really didn't mind staying up late and talking to them, this one kid Tyler and I talked for a while, he asked me a lot of questions about Barry which was really hard for me to talk about without crying but I somehow managed to do it. After a while my roommate got really sick from drinking too much, she was really embarassed she assured me about 20 times that she never drinks and she is known as a prude and kept apologizng. All of her friends said it was true, so I am not too worried about it, she had a really rough start getting here and everything so I think she got caught up in all the emotions.

I didn't end up going to bed until 2:00am but I slept the whole night and woke up at 8:30 this morning. I finally ate breakfast after not eating it for 2 days, it was amazing and reminded me of home since it was granola and yogurt! I met Bernice, Elizabeth and Kate for church and we tried Hull Community Church. Unfortunately we couldn't stay for the whole thing because we had a city tour at noon, but it was interesting. We had worship for 45 minutes, and then the sermon was about hope. I was worried I wouldn't know any of the songs but we sang a couple hillsong united which was really great "My God is the God who provides!" Next week we are going to try another church, but who knows I might end up back there.
We went on a bus to take a tour of the City Center (down town) and it was a lot of fun. "Mr. Hull" took us down town and showed us all of the historic buildings and pubs and told us some very interesting facts. ( I will post pictures later)
After the tour we were set free down town. Kelsey, Bernice and I went and got cellphones which was a huge amazing accomplishment. We ended up going to T-mobile Kelsey and I got to keep our phones from America (we actually have the same phone) and we just got SIM card for the United Kingdom and a pay as you go plan. I also went and got a converter because I bought one for Europe and not the U.K. which was another accomplishment.
Afterwards we went to another pub for lunch/dinner, and yes I ate chicken...again its pretty much the only thing I can eat that does not have wheat in it. The portions here are very large and thankfully one of the workers was able to scrounge up a to go box for Bernice and I since we had quite a bit of chicken left over.
Later tonight we are going to karaoke I don't know if I will sing but it will be fun to watch. Tomorrow we get to officially register, figure out what time our classes are and sign up for them (they do everything in person and by paper here so it is really frustrating, they are very behind in technology wise), hopefully open up a bank account, register with a doctor, and grocery shop!
I have much to do but thankfully I have friends to do it with.

Today I was getting slightly worried about finances, but I know God will provide so I am trying not to worry too much.
"My God is the God who provides!!"