Inside the Mind of Ryan

What to do with myself

I have now been in England for 21 days and has time flown! I have just passed the hump of my stay here & I feel like I have gotten a lot achomplished. But not quite everything that I has planned on.

Things Achomplised:

1. Secure my Nation Insurence Card
2. Open up a bank account (Now I have a place to send all my Drug Money) *JUST KIDDING MOM*
3. Get Hulu working outside the states :D
4. Make new friends here in the UK
5. Fit in like a local
6. Get pissed at a pub
7. See Stonehenge
8. Visit friends from OKC in Edinburgh
9. Get a Virgin Pay-As-You-Go Phone
10. Sleep outside Waterloo Station until 5am
11. Got a interview for a job

Things Still To Do:

1. Get a job
2. Figure out why the hell I can’t get my  iPhone on the network here.
3. Drive on the “correct” side of the road
4. Find myself a nice English bird
   
5. Spend an out ragous amount of money that I don’t have on shopping
6. Get kicked out of a Pub

So i’ve done a lot and not done a lot. One of my biggest dissapoints was the fact that I didn’t get a job. I started looking for one as soon as I got here & quickly learned that most stores here don’t have applications, but instead you give them your ‘CV’. Which is something english and stands for curriculum vitae. Which is equivlate to our Resume. Just like the english to make things more complicated and drawn out than they really honeslty need to be.

I was able to set up a interview to work at the Billabong store in Reading. But with only 16 days left to go before I head off to see my grandmother and head, I didn’t bother to go in. I didn’t want to waste their time or my time working there for such a short period. But next time I look for a job here I will better preparied to have resume on hand and ready to go. It would of been nice to work at the Billabong store because the people I talked with there seemed really cool and might have made my stay here even more enjoable that it already is. I was looking forward to making new mates and getting in the underground lifeftyle here. But maybe that is for another book another day. So I decided to take full advantage of my railpass now, because if I’m not going to be working for a store here, I would rather go out and see as much of the UK as possible before I go home. There is still a lot here I have not seen yet.

So, yesterday (16th July 2008) I went off to Stonehenge to check out the mysturious stones from 5000 years ago. It was only a 2 hour train ride and a 15min bus ride to get to them. I was really stoaked to see them after I got to Salisbury, the town right outside the stones. Once we go to the site, I walked and I was blown away by them. Its funny to hear all the stories about how they got there. Wizards, the Devil, Jesus, Aliens, hell maybe it was Bigfoot! Whatever the reason, it must have taken some hardcore man power to them there. It sucks that less than half complete today due to people many many many many years ago taking some of the stones away for either constuction or their keepsakes. It was really cool to finally see them and mark them off the list of things to see in the world.

I will be posting pictures soon. So check back for updates on that!