I'm moving to a flat on Saturday. It's on the same street where I currently live which is nice, since I won't have to get used to a whole new area. I'll be sharing with another girl who graduated from Westminster this summer. Having arrived in the country with just two suitcases, I now have a coffee table, a dining table, a TV, a TV stand, a bookshelf, a mattress, a reclining armchair and hopefully, a bed. Thanks everyone!

Not sure how long it'll take for us to get the internet connected, so there may be a hiatus in blogging. Hope to be back soon,

I just read this on the BBC website. What particularly caught my eye was that the expert cited at the end of the article is in fact based at Bryn Mawr College, just up the road from me here in Philadelphia.

My local tiny supermarket (imagine a Spar or a small Co-op) has a shelf display dedicated to British items including, wait for it, Lyle's Golden Syrup.

Coincidence? I think not.

So today's hermeneutics class was a bit more relaxed than in previous weeks. This may have been due in part to the pre-class discussion of pop vs. soda vs. coke vs. other.

For the benefit of my British readers, let me explain. Apparently, the term you use to refer to fizzy drinks is region-specific in the US. Here in Philadelphia, people usually talk about soda. Elsewhere (see this map) people call it pop, coke (even if it's not coke at all), or other.

In Mississippi, it's either 'drink' or 'drank'. I wonder what that tells us.