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I Feel You In My Heart, & I Don't Even Know You
... It was definitely an experience to say the least haha. Despite the feeling completely ignorant when I didn't understand half the constumes (due to about 50% of them being from American TV shows I'd heard of but never actually watched), and being both complimented on my accent as it showed real dedication to my costume & then confronted with complete disbelief (and accusations of deception) when I ...
Update 2; GO ILLINI!
... Seriously!?' That seems crazy to me. They literally took up the entire sidelines. All in uniform &
yet majority of them wouldn't even make it onto the field.
Madness!
They had this pretty sweet 'Stripe The Stadium' thing ...
I'm a chunky Dumpster
... to pop the filler cap open. I'm sure locals laughed at me, I don't think the woman at the next pump had ever heard a real life Englishman dropping F Bombs with such skill before! Made it to Champaign safely and found our self at a Mexican place. In American you can add cheese and bacon to most thing. It makes life better but on top of 3 pork chops, might be a touch OTT! ...
Fresh Mex
... distillery the day after. Excite! Approx 400 miles :s
So full of fooooood!
Spotted today: loads of signs for American things! Cracker Barrel, Wendy's, Arby's, Phillips 66 etc. Also saw a Walmart but didn't stop, and ate Cinnabon cinnamon roll - nom nom nom! Oh, short rib hash for breakfast. Beef! For breakfast! Silly.
Belly has gotten noticeably bigger ...
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
... however, is a lot more laid back than I had anticipated for a PhD program, and all the grad students and professors were very easy to talk to once the initial nervousness wore off. The nervousness came back when I learned that four recruits, including myself, were applying for two positions in the Cheng-Devries lab. Besides myself there was Garren, a 30 year old fully bearded biologist from somewhere out east, James, an incredibly nice ...


