Mrs. Argabright asked me what words are different in England and since we got here my mom and I have been trying to keep a list of words that are different than in the US. These are some of them:
US England
hot lunch school dinner
garbage rubbish
sled sledge
my dear, honey, sweetie my love
sweets or treats sweeties
snowplow/sand truck gritters
erasers rubbers
tennis shoes/sneakers trainers
head to toe top to toe
trash can bin
bye cheers
jello jelly
jelly/jam jam
cream/half & half clotted cream
mom, mommy mum
roundtrip ticket return trip
one way ticket single trip
I also have a weekly spelling test every Tuesday and have to spell things differently like
color is colour
favorite is favourite
analyze is analyse
And here they use feet and inches, but they also sometimes use the metric system like meters, cm, mm. They use miles/hour though and not km/hour. They use centigrade instead of fahrenheit for temperature.
And they drive on the opposite side of the road. And the driver sits where our front passenger sits.
We went swimming yesterday and got to drive there in a really fancy bus. I had to do a test to show how I swim and I got put in the higher level. Which was hard because I had to learn to swim with my face in the water and then just lift my face to take a breath. And I got to wear my new pink swim cap, but not my goggles, since they don't allow that.
Last night I joined a drama club and guess what!? We get to study/practice our play each week at Magdalen College (the fancy college of Oxford University that I want to go to). We are going to put on Shakespeare's As You Like It in ten weeks of practice. Last night I got to be Rosaline and had to pretend I was in love with this ten year old boy. It was embarrassing and fun. I'm the only one with an American accent.
I'll try to think of more things that are different, and when I get a new camera I'll take more pictures again and put them on my blog.
Have a great week!
Love, Naya
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