I returned to England on Tuesday 8/23 and headed back to the shire. That week was so bittersweet, I was so glad to be back with Rich and to be back in an English speaking country, it it was also my last week in England for awhile, so depressing. It was nice to just hang out with Rich, since I don't get to see him until next summer, it was kinda crucial. But we didn't do anything crazy, just hung around in Newbury. Luckily I was able to finally work out with a free week pass so that was cool. Later on in the week I got my hair done by one of Sue's ladies and she did a wonderful job! :) Friday, (8/26) Rich and I saw the Inbetweeners movie which was soooo hilarious! And after we went to Grandma's for a nice roast :) We had lamb and veggies and of course, steamed pudding! My favorite. His family is so nice it's ridiculous, and that made it even more hard to say good-bye. Sunday, Sue and Trev came in from the airport from their holiday from Greece and Sue got me some really lovely pressies! That weekend, of course was the whole Hurricane Irene dealio and I seriously wanted my flight to be cancelled since it was on Monday. I even had Sue call up Virgin to ask them if someone else seriously needed my flight on Monday and I could fly out another day because it wasn't urgent that I got back to NYC that day.
Of course they said it would actually be easier for me to fly out on my designated day, but that was THE nicest thing they have ever heard and no one had ever offered that before. So I felt special :)
Going to the airport sucked. It was so hard to realize I was actually leaving England and my boyfriend for a year and it made me realize all the cool things I was able to do while I was in Europe. Luckily when I got to Heathrow, Virgin upgraded me to an window exit seat on the upper level! There was so much room I didn't know what to do with myself.
The good-bye's were really hard, obviously had to do a bit of crying, but at least getting through the airport and security was really easy and there wasn't any difficulty. But after the flight, once I landed at JFK, it was such a weird feeling, I literally didn't want to be there, I wanted to go back so bad. Europe has made me think that the way the country is run in America doesn't really make much sense, and they still have a lot of catching up to do...
Besides the point, I'm still not used to it, I've already left my bank card in the atm on accident because I forgot you need to take it out, or dip it shall you say.
I miss already, Pret, Eat, Marks and Spencer's, percy piggies, Tesco/Sainsbury's 3 pound lunch deals, driving on the other side of the road/car(now it seems normal), fish n' chips, chips in general, crisps, biscuits, puddings, ghetto phones, top-up's, vodaphone, bbc, RADIO 1 and 2, British television, being able to drink legally, CIDER, Sue's food, really good butter and milk/cream, GREEN GRASS, the spastic rain, the tube, the oyster card, sweating out in the tube, cream tea's, tea all together, brown sugar in tea, lemon in tea, full cooked english breakfast, HP SAUCE, English people, english accent and but what I really miss the most is, obviously, Richard.
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