University has started!

Hello All,

I have not updated my blog for a few weeks. Once school started it feels more like home and do not have a ton of free time to be a tourist. The past two weeks have been mainly school and helping out with the American Football team here and making trips to see Kari! Two of the coaches here will be coming to Menomonie in the fall to watch and work with us during fall camp. They both seem very excited and Stout really welcomes them, it will be a great experience for them and also us. This coming weekend Kari and I are going to Oxford with her university, it will be a good time. It will be nice to get out and see a little bit more of the countryside and something other than London. I do really like it here though and I think I am adapting quite well.

This past weekend Kari came to London to visit me; we went to the Natural History Museum. It was very cool and much bigger than we expected. We did not have enough time to visit everything though; I was upset that we did not get to see more of the dinosaurs. They had a life sized blue whale there and it filled a huge room. Saturday we got quite of bit of snow in the evening, it was a very nice snow.

Super Bowl Sunday was a good time here; the team went to a bar in Central London to enjoy the game with some beer. I never thought it would be so hard to watch a football game; you have to buy tickets to see the games on TV here at the bars. It also does not help that the game starts at 11:30 at night either, it makes for a long night. Luckily I got in free with the team so that was nice.

I am very excited for things to come, in about a month Kari and I will be traveling to Amsterdam with her university and her friends that she has met. It is good timing for me too because I all my deadlines for my coursework is the week before we leave! We plan on doing a few other trips as well depending on funds. One that we really want to do is go see Antti in Finland in May. My time here has been amazing and I am really enjoying it.