I saw my first rainbow today. It was awesome. The weather went from a downpour to cheery sunniness within the space of five minutes, and we were treated with some welcome warmth as well as that marvelous arc. The pictures today would have been of that lovely sight, but my camera broke about a week […]

The strangest part about England? That a small produce store two blocks from my dorm has a perfect record of only having absolutely gorgeous women working their tills. Pic unrelated, obviously. This was at a work-sponsored event at the Hotel Du Vin in Bristol, where my BU hoodie stood out amongst the sea of business […]

“Rural Devon” is actually the term the locals use to describe Devon. Exeter is simply the exception to the rule. Travel just a few minutes away from the city, and it’s like you’re in another world.

Did I really just go jive dancing? More importantly, did I just enjoy it? Did I take up plenty of space on the dance floor, spinning my partner about? Was I really energetic? Confident? It’s such a stark contrast to my behavior right now. The Steven who will contently sit in front of a computer […]

Does anything more need to be said? Found in a small pet store within a market in Bristol, an hour’s drive from Exeter. Randomly wandered there after an event at the very nice Hotel Du Vin.

Steven Li James Owen Court, C303 Sidwell Street Exeter, EX4 6SD

The other intern and I had been wondering whether the Fourth of July had any special meaning here in the UK. They told us that for them it didn’t, but they’d make it special for us. Nothing but the best for the American interns.

While waiting for the obscenely expensive train to arrive, I stopped by a Vodaphone vendor to pick up a pay-as-you-go phone. It was expensive, and its minutes follow in that tradition, but I was getting used to the notion that everything in England was expensive, and I have yet to find any prices contrary to […]

Right off the bat I discovered the first perk of business class: you waited on a separate, priority line to board the plane. It still took some time for the people ahead of me to file into the plane, but I must have spent a good half hour enjoying the cabin instead of being slowly […]

Okay, I figured that the keyboards here in the UK might replace the dollar symbol with the pound sign. I can fix that. What I can’t fix are the small physical differences in the keyboard that are totally messing with me. When I trained to touch-type, I took into account that the enter key and […]