Time Zones -- A Cruel Mistress

Well, here it is -- the maiden post of this blog.

I had stated that I would post after I overcame my jet lag, well, it is about 8:46pm local time in Yorkshire, UK, and 1:46pm "home time." I arrived in this wonderful country of England Monday morning at 11am (once again, local time). I now find that it is Wednesday, and while it is better getting up in the mornings here, I still find myself dumbfounded when I look at my computer clock and find that it is early afternoon when I am ready to go to bed!

This post does happen to be right on time, though, as it turns out. Stephen and I are just about to head over to Sweden tomorrow! Can you imagine? I find that now I have caught the traveling bug, I might as well just go everywhere I possibly can! Too bad I'm not made of money, because I'd just do a little bit of school in every country I visited!

Although this isn't a very long post, it kind of reflects what I have done here so far. The most exploring I've done these past two days has been today, actually. I went for a walk with Stephen and his closest friends (minus one, unfortunately), and was toured around a small village called Idle, within his city named Bradford. (I know, a village within a city? Nuh-uh. haha)

Stephen maintains that Bradford has a bad reputation because it is a cultural melting pot with a lot of diversity leading to adversity, but so far I can't say it's so bad. I guess I'll just wait and see how my experience pans out.

So there it is, the first post. As of now, I am undecided whether I am going to take my laptop with me to Sweden. I'm thinking I would like to, because I would like to post what I do each day while I'm there so I won't forget anything, but I may try to see if I can borrow my friend's laptop, that way I won't have to worry about finding a different plug for my computer.

But I promise, that's all for now... It's now about 9pm, and I'm hoping to be in bed by 10 or 10:30 tonight so I'll be prepared for tomorrow.

Talk to you all again soon!

Janean