East coast travels

It’s been ages since I last wrote on this, and loads has happened since October, so I’ll try and give a quick recap of what I can remember. In no particular order the first semester contained: a lot of trips down to New York City as well as visits to Boston and Philadelphia (all very easy to get to from Albany), a lot of meeting people, a lot of cold weather, a lot of celebrating (including turning 21 and the Yankees winning the World Series), a lot of Nottingham students taking advantage of what SUNY Albany had to offer (playing on the school soccer team, taking part in the university dance council show, and performing in theatre productions to name a few!)…and some schoolwork.

reed: semester 2 update

(pictures are of reed college's campus canyon, a shot in the autumn of portland centre, and the main campus building- 'eliot hall')

hello all,
i realise after typing the title of my post that i only one entry last semester (albeit a rather long one) and now we are already into semester 2; madness. time flies incredibly quickly with the heavy workload here at reed college in portland, oregon, so sorry for not updating too much since last time!

i can inform everyone that i had a mighty fine christmas holiday...it was wonderful to be able to see my family and girlfriend back at home. it has been rather difficult leaving those individuals behind, as well as all my good friends from nottingham. however, once i returned to reed i got back into the swing of things quickly. i'm really enjoying my classes here (this post may be a bit academic-centric, and i apologise for this, it really does go with the territory of the campus).

Ey up mi duck!

Hi everyone,

My name's Ben and I am yet another TR. I'm first year PhD, researching U.S. policy towards Iran in the 1960s. I will be heading off to the States this summer to do some research in Austin, Boston, Washington, Binghamton and maybe a couple of other places. Very excited about getting to see lots of interesting places and do plenty of research.

Anyway, seeing as I am actually from Nottingham I thought I would give you some insight into our language (or rather some of the words you might hear but not know!):

Ey up mi duck = hello, my dear
Tar = thanks
Mardy = grumpy
Nesh = someone is Nesh if they're cold all the time
ya sen = yourself
me sen = myself
black over Bill's movva's = it looks like its going to rain
tuffees = sweets (not just toffees!)
gorra gerrit = got to get it
the offy = off licence/liqour store

That'll do I think. If anyone wants to add more feel free, or better yet, if people want to translate any American dialects I might hear on my travels that would be great.

Cheers, Ben