in this part of the world, the time change does not just mean that it gets dark earlier, but that there’s generally just less light. at home, moving the clocks back means an earlier evening but also a push to get up and moving in the morning. right now it starts to get light around nine and the sun sets about 4 with it completely dark out by 6. i’m thinking this is about when the s.a.d. that everyone warned me about kicks in..i have no concept of time and it’s hideous outside!

right now is incredibly hectic at school with projects and exams in every module, but that all ends in two weeks when we begin christmas vacation. alice has kindly invited me to her home in the english countryside, a village called sheet right by petersfield. it sounds like it’s going to be really big with her whole family, including so many cousins that she’s renamed it ‘cuz-mas.,’ i get to be an honorary cuz, aw. so that’ll be something to look forward to while i’m on lockdown getting through my classes the next couple of weeks. on the 27th she and i will fly up to edinburgh where cara and catherine live, until new years. i heard that there’s a haunted underground city where they locked people who had the plague and left them for dead, scary, but i want to see it.

and now a couple photos of interesting moments in kingston…

this was on the bus heading into central that stopped for a herd of children on ponies to cross the road in front of us, when they were done the guard flipped his sign over for us to see the ‘thank you!’



and this is bushy park from my window…do you see that speck near the center? that is one man pushing a suburban backyard sized lawnmower. he’s out there quite a lot keeping the grass looking so pristine..in the states that would definitely be replaced by an ear-muff wearing dude riding around on some massive gas guzzling mower for a lawn a tenth the size. oh england.