"Lets take a wander towards the Chippie!"

Today was full of firsts.

For example… I was late!! If you know me at all you know that punctuality is one of the things I really adhere to and I was so embarrassed that I arrived late to the elementary school today. Luckily it was a teacher work day but my jetlag really got the best of me today. I was so embarrassed when I arrived at school totally disheveled but they were so nice and told me not to worry about it. I met with the principal and did some online training so I should be ready to start on Monday! Ahhhh! And I swear I will not be late (I bought an alarm clock!)

When I came back, Emily, Meredith, Kendall, and I wanted to take a walk to town. We went downstairs for some directions. The lady at the front (a native Brit) pretty much told us that we were crazy to WALK to the nearest town because it was a couple of miles away. Our first British person encounter. But we told her that we were pretty much dying to go somewhere off base. She goes “well, if you fancy a wander….” And then preceded to give us directions. Fancy a wander? FANCY A WANDER? What?? Isn’t that just a crazy way to say “take a walk.” So crazy. We told her that we wanted to go to a fish and chips store and she replied “The Chippie?? In might be closed”. She called to make sure and it turns out they were open. Since we did “fancy a wander” to the “chippie” we took her advice and walked the 2 miles to the nearest town, Feltwell. We walked out of the base gate and then had to figure out what side of the road to get on. The drivers here are crazy and we might have been in a couple of close calls with cars. But we survived and found our way around our first little English town. It truly looked exactly what I expected. It had wrought iron fences and hedges all the way around. There were like sod roof type things on the top of the houses and mossy green grass everywhere. Ivy was even growing along the side of buildings. It was so absolutely adorable.The picture below describes how beautiful it was:



 We finally found the “chippie” and ordered our first British food: cod and chips! It was really good food! We then walked the two miles back onto the base.

Such a great day of firsts!