Since I last wrote my blog I have done so many different things. Tuesday morning I woke up in Cory's apartment and met his room mate Jim who made me a superb breakfast. My plan was then to head into East Lansing and go into some of the shops/ restaurants and ask if any of them were hiring. In reality I actually went with Jim and his girlfriend Kristine to meet Cory when he was on his lunch break. I saw their university campus which is MASSIVE! UEA is like a tiny mini campus in comparison. Although, I didn't see any horses or lakes on the Michigan State Campus. I had a delicious ice coffee and went to get my hair cut as I have been having fringe issues (no surprises there!) I went to an Aveda training salon which was amazing, I received a head massage and neck massage as part of my hair cut and also got to sample some lip gloss. After this I grabbed a few application forms and met Cory. The rest of the afternoon we spent doing a variety of things: we went to the pet store and saw some giant birds and fish plus creepy tarantulas, bought some jamaican food, went to a farmers market and went to Target where I got some $6 jogging bottoms! After returning to Cory's apartment and having our dinner Cory had a paper to complete so I went for a walk into the town. I ended up staying out until Cory was finished and it started to get dark so I went into a place called Insomnia Cookies and had an amazing brownie, cookie, ice cream, mini marshmallows and reeces pieces sundae! It was amazing but I felt pretty sick afterwards!
The next day we headed to the library so Cory could do his final online exam and I could fill out some job applications. After this we headed to Holland which is a town by Lake Michigan. On the way we went to Grand Rapids as I've always wanted to go there and stopped at a park with a little windmill. The beach at Holland was busy and full of loads of high school kids burying each other in the sand and eating pizza. There was a small pier to walk down so we did that and then it started to rain and thunder :( We had bought a picnic with us so found a nice bench under and tree and ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, cheese on french stick and cheez-its plus some delicious grapes. On the way home we stopped off at a woodland park and Cory introduced me to a game called Discgolf. It involves frisbee shaped disc which are slightly smaller and heavier and you have to throw them and get them into a cage. It was really fun and I have now bought a disc of my own. The closest course in England is in Colchester so I will have to make a special trip. After this we headed into Holland to have a little look around. There were lots of street performers playing music, singing, making balloon animals and more. It was a really lovely evening and Holland was a really super place. I filled out an application and took another one home with me. After going to Holland we headed back to Cory's apartment had some food and headed to sleep.
Friday--> This morning I headed over to Kristine's apartment with Jim and a couple of his friends names Scales and Poisson were there also. Kristine made a super brunch- sausages, eggs, onion plus fresh bread out of the bread machine. We spent a couple of hours talking about loads of things and having debates about accents. The boys headed out and Kristine and I laid by the pool and caught a bit of sun. Cory came home from work and we headed into East Lansing to hand my applications in and collect some more. That evening we had a really great party! We played waterfall (basically ring of fire but a little bit different) and some of the rules included talk in a foreign accent and talk in a Southern American accent. One of the girls was from Kentucky so she chose the Southern accent and the rest of us sounded ridiculous. We ordered some delicious pizza and watched the Hangover. I got talking to a guy called Josh who has just graduated after an International Relations degree, we had a very long talk about the state of the world and how we could fix it, I'm not quite sure how to put these plans into action quite yet!
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