My weekend full of excitement and drinking! Well, drinking anyways

Three words - spaghetti and Champagne.

Need I say any more?

Well, if you want to know more, Saturday I took the Mensa test. It raped me so far up the @$$ that I doubt I'll walk straight for the rest of my life.

Went to go get an Ipod Nano at the Apple store on Oxford street, but decided that 2 hours waiting in line isn't really worth it. I've gone through my finances, and I really can't afford one right now anyways.

Sunday night, I decided to have some spaghetti, but when we passed the alcohol aisle at the local Tesco, I decided that I needed some champagne. The Tesco brand champagne won some huge award recently, being named the best in the world or something like that. Tesco, being the English equivalent to crap has £14 champagne, so I had to get it.

Not that anyone in the world will try it, but Champagne compliments spaghetti quite well.

Hope to hear from you all soon.

Paul

So what's up with Paul?

As some of you may or may not know, I am not going to South Africa on vacation later this year. This is because my current contract will not be renewed.

With all that said, I'm thinking of leaving the big city for something a bit smaller. I'm likely going up to Edinburgh to find a job there. It's got a business industry only second to London. I'll hopefully find a job there before I move. If not, BUNAC/SWAP have an office in Edinburgh for me to take a look at job postings. BUNAC/SWAP is the company that helped me get my visa and set up here.

So this means that I'll probably be in Scotland for about 6 months. Doubt I'll come back with any accent (sorry Stacie). I'll probably get my own flat or something.

Regarding school, I'm taking a look at Open University (www.open.ac.uk). It's fairly well respected, and was referred to me by the head of my company's Marketing Department.

There's a pub meet tonight. I think we should have more pubs back home. There's a pub every 2 or three business establishments here. They all end in 'Arms' too. Devonshire Arms, Gloucester (pronounced Glawster) arms, Queen's Arms, etc... I'll probably be heading to the pub meet. Nice place to meet people.

Anyways, I'll be getting nice and pissed tonight. Hope you all do the same.

Cheers

I am officially a university dropout

Hey everyone.

Some of you might have noticed that I'm not anywhere close to university. That's because I'm a lazy bum who dropped out of it. Haven't really found a suitable online university to go to, and may have to go home in a year to finish up school.

Hope you're all having fun in your first week of school.

Miss you all,

Paul

Carnival baby!

Sorry for not posting in a while. I've been too lazy to do fun stuff in the last while, and been too lazy to post about the things that I have done.

At the end of August, I went to the Notting Hill Carnival.

We went on the Sunday, which was classified as "Kids day". Now, I'm glad that I didn't go on the holiday Monday, because it was packed. I found myself alone in the carnival for about an hour, walking around and seeing the floats. Nothing that really impressed me, but they were still pretty keen. The Monday is when they pull out their best stuff.

After an hour, I went back to the tube station to get Brett. We eventually found ourselves in a place called "Good Times". D.J. Norman James was amazing. I'll admit, that I had quite a lot of vodka, so anything would have been amazing by then.

We were waiting for our buddy Scott, so Brett and I found the closest pillar to stand on, and eventually stayed there. Brett and I met up with some Brits and just partied till 7 (when the party ended. Don't ask why, cause I don't know).

So you all know, I'm planning on taking the Japanese Language Proficiency Test in December. That's entirely depending on what happens with myself by then. I might be on vacation in South Africa or something then.

Cheers