Well 231 years ago today the US celebrated it's independence. It's funny to be in a country where no one celebrates it...although you would think they might since the Brits did, as one man writes, "kick a bunch of rowdy teenagers out of the empire". The plus side to being here I don't have to listen to a bunch of morons fire off rocket after rocket into the wee hours of the morning while I'm trying to get some sleep. I don't even thing fireworks are legal here...although I did see a firework store yesterday but since this country is a tad different it might be some kind of drink or something.
Now on to what I really want to talk about. I went into a department store yesterday just to have a walk around as it seems every good Brit does. No one ever buys anything, they just walk around stores. Maybe I'm missing something though. So while walking through the mens department I came across some shirts, they looked like they were part of a line Abercombie rejected. One t-shirt was purple and in white letters the words University of Minnesota were emblazoned. Now consider this, we are not only about 4,000 miles away from the Twin Cities but the colours of U of Minn (I'm NOT calling it U of M) aren't purple and white, but rather maroon and gold. Why one earth would a Brit want to wear a shirt from one of the coldest places in America, with the wrong colours, and from a rejected Abercombie line? There are still many things I do not understand about this country.
There were other shirts with universities and incorrect colours on them as well and they also had a line of the ugliest baby blue and pink (this is for the blokes mind you) t-shirts with things from California on them. They didn't make a lick of sense like "Surf San Francisco", which only the most foolish person would do. I really don't get things here...well at least with fashion anyways.
Oh and onto another car note, I saw my first TVR yesterday that wasn't from the 70's. It sounded brilliant, I really hope to see more because they are such funny looking cars yet so different. I really guess you'd have to be a Brit to like them.
Well I'm off to take advantage of the sun since at the moment it isn't raining, but I know that could change by the time I finish writing this sentence.
3 comments:
Happy Independence Day Joe!
We are so happy to see you are doing well. Sounds like such an amazing experience already!
Take care of yourself and enjoy every moment of it!
Jennifer, Jileesa, Allie, & Trisha
I think you'll find most Euro-fashion to be a bit odd; but the University cloths with the wrong colors is just plain weird.
And I also have no idea how this website knows my name...I clicked 'Leave a Comment' and it says I'm posting as 'Chris', yet I have not told it I am Chris...very strange.
Anyway, hope you're enjoying the rain and such; Courtney and I just woke up.
Speaking as an Englishman who is applying for citizenship, I can assure you there is nothing odd about the University of Minnesota shirt not being in their school colors. I am a Michigan State die-hard and it pains me to see MSU book stores selling blue shirts with white letterring. Blue is one half of the colors used by the school which is home to fat weasels... oops I meant to say Wolverines... on the other hand by definition, a wolverine is a fat weasel. But as we all know, in America the name of the game is to make a buck where ever you can...if you were to tell me you found a Manchester United shirt in pale blue, now that would be weird.
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