Cheers mate! Cheers!

Hello everyone,
It is finally me again updating you on my crazy English life over here. The past week has been a little crazy starting all my classes and mostly finding the classrooms! The way they set it all up here is very different from the states so I had to sort of work my way through, but now worries i made it to every class and was never late. yes! A few friends and I decided to go on a journey to find this hiking trail we heard about in Ormskirk. ALthough it seemed kind of sketchy considering every british person was like "Were are going to go hiking at mate, it is all flat around here!" but alas we did find it. It was a park more than a hiking trail but beautiful none the less. It showed beautiful countryside and nature that we had not exactly explored yet. The pictures I am showing you are the ones from the park and the one with my friend in it is Kensey and I on a cliff. I wasnt really a fan of that but I just didnt look down. We had a great time and made our way around Ormskirk quite well.
I am having a blast here with all the people and am really making some good friends. Kensey the girl in the picture is probably my best friend as of yet, she lives right accross the hall and is so funny and nice and we just clicked. I will not name names but there is a girl here who is nice but getting on my nerves let me just say that she remindes me a lot of Will Farrel in the saturday night live skit where he has voice imodulation. In other words she is hecka loud! All the time! Anyway small detail but just though it would get it off my chest.
The past few days have been kind of boring just hanging out in town, going to the campus club, and watching movies. The movies come out about four months later here too fyi. Today, on the other hand we got to experience some of the best breakfast yet. We heard about this local cafe that made belgium waffles and so we decided to try it. Let me just say that my taste buds were in heaven! OMG they were the greatest waffles ever (besides dads special waffles of course)! You could pick bt maple syrup, candy syrup, and chocolate syrup...of course i picked the chocolate. Are you even kidding me! Incredible, wish I could ship some home to all of you just so you could also enjoy the splendor as well.

Tomorrow we are going to Manchester for the day, just to check it out and see what is there. We have heard it is pretty cool and it is so nice just to be able to hop on a train for 8 pounds and see it! I will have to inform you of it when I return. I hope all is well at home, thank you for the responses, I will be anxious to hear more. Also, my pics are on snapfish as well so you can go check those out if you would like. Also, this is just for all yall's info(more my parents then anything) here is my address:

Audrey Lampe
16 Lady Openshaw
Edge Hill University
St. Helens Road
Orskirk, Lancashire
L39 4QP

Love you all, take care and you will hear from me again soon!

One week down! Many more to come!

Hi all, as you can see thanks to the lovely older sister anna i now have a blog that you can all see and come to for pictures and just updates about what I am doing. Cool huh? Yeah I thought so too. Well the past week as beed a whirlwind adventure and I let me just say that I am learning something new everyday. The people have been very nice and accomodating and quite halarious as well. I went into Liverpool the past two days to do some shopping. They have this place called Primark which is bascially an upscale walmart but only with clothes....ok so really cheap clothes I should say, but cute! so i got some stuff from there but not much, no worries I am saving some for the big places like Barcelona which I might add I am going to in two weekends. 10 people from my hall are all going to barcelona on a plane for under 40$ per person! Yeah, Europe is awesome let me just say that. Anyway, I also have a plane booked for Milan Italy at the end of February and that should be a blast as well. Other than that I am just getting ready to start classes on Monday along with joining the Field Hockey team. I got a stick and everything! So this week should be exciting, but I am missing all of you and mainly just being able to call home whenever i feel lonely or want to talk, but I will survive. Email and this will haev to to for now I suppose. If you know of anyone who might want to be updated on my trip as well just feel free to give them this address and they can check it out. Well hope all is well there and let me know what is up with all of you! Love you!

PS- Here are a few weird things about this country that I have already found out:
1) They dont like ketchup or penut butter. When you ask for some ketchup (aside for paying per packet) they only give you onepacket of ketchup! Who eats fries with only one packet of ketchup!
2)"are you alright?" means like what is up. Talk about confusing! Each time i get weirded out that the cashier of the store is concerned with my wellbeing!
3)They are obsessed with telling you where fire exits are. Apparently knowing where the fire exits are in a building can be nice art or something cause they are everywhere!
4) No one writes in notebooks. A notebook that you could get at like taret for 70 cents is like 4 dollars over here! Not cool. Oh and they are only in like one store in the entire town, odd.

But...you got to love em! I mean i guess i am the weird one being in their country and all :)

the first post (courtesy of anna)

ok, so auds is in england and since she has little time to make a blog for herself i decided to make one for her. so here it is in all its beginning glory. this is where i leave the duty of keeping it up to date to audrey now. it is made, a picture is added, even some text. and so now it is up to her.

it's a good thing i'm only working on my masters this semester or else this blog would be just a dream.

:) much love to auds and i hope this helps...

anna