Queenie

The Queen is not impressed, as seen overhead.
Today is Sunday which provides my favorite meal of the week, the traditional English Sunday roast. I remember from when I was here before the love Brits have for their roasts, and I can see why. Every week we're given a nice large meal that provides a nice oppurtunity for everyone to feast and chat over the latest events. Most people are pretty sentimental when it comes to their roasts and I often get told how its not nearly as good as something their mum would make. Another form of cultural divde as far as eating goes is the use of utensils. Now maybe I'm a bit of a barbarian, but my general philosophy is that the fork is the primary tool for eating, and other utensils are only needed in the uncommon circumstance that the fork can't do the job. (I've been made fun of for eating yogurt with a fork.) This leaves me in the minority here as a knife is included for every food task, no matter how rediculous it might seem to me. I mean using a knife to aid in the eating of peas just seems like overkill, not to mention the dreaded fork knife combo for eating pizza. The other day the cafeteria served pizza and I was shoving it into my face as fast as I could before someone said, "Are you actually eating it like that?" I didn't know what "like that" meant so I asked for a clarification. The reply was "with your hands" and to my horror I realized every single person at our table was eating their pizza in metallic utensil bliss. Disgusting.
Well this is the last week of the semester before exams begin and I've been getting into study mode, or as its called here "revisions." Hopefully I can get over the 50 percent mark in my classes to receive a grade of passing from UNCW. To clarify, the grading scale is rediculous here. Technically someone could score in the 90's but in actuality anything over a 70 is extrememly rare. Silly to me, but I think I'll be able to manage.
I went out taking pictures this weekend to finally get some shots of all of Southampton. Heres some of the oceanography centre, my dorm, the park, and some ducklings who have been hanging out in our dorms pond.