Speak English!!!

Staying in London has been interesting, I'm staying in a "suburb" called Acton. It's basically NYC's Queens/Brooklyn with a funny accent and approximately 497 more kebab shops. My friend that I'm staying with, Kat, works in a pub and it's really interesting to see the SAME people everyday at like 1pm in the afternoon drinking the day away. I thought I was the only one getting away with not working! ;)
Learning the lingo has been interesting and I've caught myself saying "Put some pants on" and getting giggles from old men cause here, pants are underwear, not shorts with legs. Confused? Me too. They also call fries chips which everyone knows, but fuck I'm tired of saying chips when I mean fries and crisps when I mean chips....overload.
I went out to a pub called the Red Back on Sunday and said "We're only staying for an hour".....5 hours later I could barely speak and was trying to hit on this really hot rugby dude who tried to shun me for not following rugby. Dude, I'm American, do you follow American football? Didn't think so. Funny story about him, I asked him his name, it was Liam, and for some reason I couldn't for the life of me remember it. I asked my friend D to ask him his name DISCRETELY and so Danny says, "Hey dude, she forgot your name again, what is it?"
Hand to face moment.
Luckily he still talked to me after that, but I doubt I will see him again after my drunken memory loss and non-rugby-followingness. Damn the luck. So I moved on to a short English dude with crazy hair. His name was Dean...I think.
Terrible decision ensued...oh well. No more drinking, til Friday :)

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