Wellingborough, The Midlands

Trip Start Aug 30, 2005
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Trip End Jan 04, 2006


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Monday, December 19, 2005

Its Christmas Eve and I am heading out to my cousins friends party. My hair is going wild (never experiment with new mouse when you have to meet new people), and it's pleasantly warm (7 degrees at night). I have been catching up on some well-deserved television watching with a few splatterings of wandering around Wellingborough. Wellingborough is a town located 45 minutes train ride north of London, right smack dab in the middle of the Midlands. It has all the charms of an English town with its old medieval churches and red-bricked houses and of course a Tesco, Sainsbury's, M&S, and Boots. I have been sleeping at my Aunty Betty's and spending most of my time with my cousin Helen, her husband Michael, and their wonderful children, Kirstie, Tom and Fiona who are all close to my age (Kirstie is sitting behind me so I write that to appease her). I have been enjoying each day getting to know my cousins and having my lifetime's worth of tea. I still haven't quite grasped the concept of drinking milky tea 4-5 times a day. I would be in the loo for hours if I continued to drink this amount of liquid.

Helen, has taken me to Milton Keynes a few times to go shopping. This mall is huge, with a Christmas market and skating rink in the center, and an outdoor section. Its a tiring experience to walk around the whole thing is one try.

I have been catching up on my British television watching and am now hooked on Dr. Who... There is a new doctor and I think it's fabulous. Also the quiz shows, which I am getting surprisingly, better at answering (especially when one of the questions was "On what lake is Toronto situated on?" I would like to note that the person answered Erie.. So ba ha..) I think even as I write this Wallace and Gromit is on the tele.

I am sorry to say that my computer is broken and consequently in Canada (care of Liz Philp) and I cannot connect my ipod to the computer so there will be no more pictures to be uploaded. I am sorry. So weirdly enough you are all going to have to wait till I get home (Guelph) to see any sort of adventures abroad. I am not looking forward to the amount of things I have to do when I get home to get ready for the first week of School.

I know I have been kinda lax with my updates these last few weeks. I have spent many a day sitting around and for some reason the couch appears to be much more comfortable than the office chair. I would also like to note that I have written this in two parts and this is the second part.

Christmas was wonderful. We woke up and went to Church where the service was a little different then I was used too. The minister got every child to stand up at the front (I have rarely seen a congregation with so many children so imagine that this took about an hour to go through) and they had to describe their favourite toy that they got from Santa. After the morning service we went home and opened presents and then had a huge tea with turkey, stuffings, veggies, cakes ... well you get the idea. Then the Queen addressed everyone at 3pm and the whole family sat around pleasantly full from Helen's wonderful cooking. I would like to note that whilst everyone was unwrapping the presents, an ever increasing pile of chocolate began to amass. It was from these that for the rest of my time in England I have been filling myself with a daily 'requirement' full. The Toffee Dollars are my favourite. During the next week a cold began passing through the Wright family house. Everyone is almost funny recovered now by the New Year.
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