Acclimating: Part 2

Things I have already adapted to (I think):

  • Drinking tea! (With milk!) And this type of super-fast water-boiling kettle-thing! 
  • “It’s a swipe-and-sign card. Yes, I have a pen.”
  • Getting lost every time I leave the house. (Every. Single. Time.)
  • Buildings with at least 4 stories everywhere.
  • Strange spellings of different wourds.
  • Lots and lots and lots and lots of FREE, AMAZING museums and parks
  • Vocabulary — pop in, flat, keen, rather, tube/bus station (not stop)
  • Very polite signs:

Things I will most likely get used to soon:

  • Walking 15,000+ steps each day
  • Not knowing which accent a person will have
  • Expecting the question “small or large” when ordering a glass of wine
  • Fellow pedestrians being ambiguous about which direction they’ll yield (if at all). 
  • Lack of sunlight/abundance of clouds
  • Vocabulary — trousers (not pants), rashers (not sausages or pork chops), give way (not yield), let (not lease or rent), ground floor and first floor (instead of first floor, second floor)
  • Very (VERY) skinny jeans

Things I will most likely get used to after a few more months:
  • London prices. (Maybe.)
Things I might never get used to:
  • All of the cigarette smoke. Everywhere.
  • Someone walking two steps behind me at all times.
  • Vocabulary — biscuits, gravy.

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