Lancaster & Manchester, UK

I flew into Manchester today!!!

My cousin Aastha came to "receive me" at the airport and we took a train back to Lancaster for 15 Pounds (which amounted to more than $30 at the current rate...I think I like the Euro better).

After we came back to her apt, we went to a cute little Indian Restaurant on campus lol and I met one of her friends, Avinash, a sindhi Indian guy from Barcelona! Crazy! I got to practice my spanish with him so that was fun, and my Hindi, and my Sindhi, AND MY ENGLISH! Unfortunately he didn't know German but if he did I think I would have had to shrink him and put him in my pocket to be my personal pocket dictionary.

We ate biriyani and I had a tandoori chicken wrap, and because he was so impressed with my language skills he gave me a Mango Lassi. I think I may have to include that amazing factoid about me on my C.V. :


" Awardee of Mango Lassi for incredible linguistic capabilities"


After lunch I got some cassssssssh and transferred my leftover dollars to Pounds ( $100 = 46 Pounds... Ouch) and then we did some sight seeing!!!!



Aasthu and I on the double decker bus on our way to townnnn :)




Look! No Hands! Haha... No but seriously it was like a roller coaster.. I wish I took a vid for yall.



UKs next top model hahaha.



randddddddddd



the view!



Aastha in front of the Lancaster Castle.. half castle half prison!


entrance to the prison.. It looks soooooo mideival..


cells? where cell mates stay? I don't understand what they could've done besides being AWESOME so that they can stay in a castle.




The Priory Church, Accross from the Lancaster Castle




The View from the church (shadow of the castle on the ground)



more of the view from the church



in front of the Priory church on the ground they have all sorts of inscribations which are fading and ohhh soo cool to see the various layers of history peeling away..



Priory Church



This statue looked exactly like me.. There must've been one of my awesome ancestors there, too.



All Hail Great Britain. NOTTTTTT! (borat voice) hahhaa...


After we checked out that whole area, we went to the Gardens nearby where:




word.



Myself and Aasthu again





the view^

a park bench in front of the butterfly gardens:




^ that's what I'm doing :D.. I really feel like while I'm out here I'm like searching for my own path through life with all the crazy cool amazingly awesome experiences I'm experiencing.. And of course the people along the way are enhancing my journey more than I ever thought they would...

I already miss Germany. How crazy is that! Away from deutschland for not even a DAY and I'm sad... I know I'm going to be verrrrrrrrry sad to leave at the end of the summer...


Anyway, enough of that, tonight Aastha and I are going outtttttttt! We bought some rum for a pre-party in her party.. We're going to club CUBA tonight. I'll let yall know how that went tomorow ;)



xoxo