Sunday continued It's the playoffs for the superbowl so college students will not be seen walking the streets during this time. I tried watching a game but I fell asleep, there was just so much time where nothing was happening. Although one thing that caught my attention was a packers player called BJ Raji - he is an incredible 24 stone (153kg). One wonders how he can even move, let alone play in the NFL. Monday The pot fixation in boulder is astounding,...

The first meal back at boulder was a rather unwelcoming one, the label above the serving hatch read "Chicken Fried Steak". Just take a few minutes for that to sink in. A steak so bad it is comparable to the welsh football team, deep fried in breadcrumbs and served with chips. Well the less said about it the better really, it seems the dorm food has given up its 'healthy and professional facade'. The chef's special yesterday was '3 coloured nachos wi...

It's bloody cold innit? There's 8 inches of snow in Inkberrow, it's so pretty but I think when the novelty wears off I will be angry that I'm stranded in the village. Walking home from the pub in -15C after a few pints seemed like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. One of our friend's mums came to pick us up to ensure we didn't die, I was grateful - but we would have been fine, we were ½ way through the 45 minute walk home. The last few days have consisted ...

Thursday Thanksgiving at a friends, I was treated to turkey, cranberry, sweet potatoes and the (apparently) essential pumpkin pie. It was a great meal and had a nice relaxing day - we even watched gavin and Stacey, I'm educating Americans about the motherland one at a time. It turns out yanks are obsessed with pumpkin around this time of the year, they make pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin biscuits. Just about anything is given a pumpkin makeover. It's...

Day 90 - Tuesday On the way to my lecture today I saw something that to me seemed very bizarre. A student was skateboarding, smoking and walking his dog at the same time, if that's not proof that men can multitask then I don't know what is. This activity typified either Americans' ingenuity or their laziness, it's up for interpretation. During my physiology lecture we were looking at obesity (what better place to observe obesity than the US) when our lecturer sh...