One of my favorite things about being here: BRIGHTON.If I were to live anywhere while I'm still young, I think I'd want to be somewhere like this.
It has a lot of random, independent shops, cute cafes and bakeries, a diverse selection of restaurants (ranging from Thai to Vegan to even Mexican-- rare in England), along with your mainstream stores like H&M, Primark, and Sainsbury's.
Brighton is known as a "young city" and the nightlife (pubs and clubs) is supposedly one of the best in the UK.
On my second day here, I went to Brighton for the first time to do some GROCERY SHOPPING! (yeah, they don't feed us here)
There was a parade of people going grocery shopping. They arranged two shifts to go to the store (one at 2 and one at 4pm) and we all packed into the buses like cattle. It was pretty crazy.
Us with our weekly bus passes! These are not cheap... they cost 20 USD.
Just had to take one of these.
The bus stop we wait at everytime we want to go to Brighton.
We went to Sainsbury's, a common grocery store in the UK. I was really amused and excited that they had one of these escalator things in the supermarket.
Inside Sainsbury's. It was really nice...
I don't know why food looks so much better in the UK. They package it really nicely.
Five random things about grocery shopping here:
1. They don't refrigerate their eggs.
2. Lemon-lime flavor soda is called Lemonade.
3. Some places make you pay 10 pence ($0.20) for a grocery bag.
4. The food expires fast, including frozen food.
5. The cashiers sit down as they ring your orders up. What the...? I want to work in a grocery store in the UK.
After grocery shopping, I went back to school, made and ate dinner, then went back to Brighton for a tour of the city (hosted by the summer program staffers here).
This was the first thing I saw. It's an old church called St. Peter's I believe.
(The real St. Peter's is in Italy...)
I must go see that later. =)
Some random pictures of the city...
I think this place is the Brighton Museum or something... I don't even remember.
Obviously, I wasn't paying much attention during this part of the tour.
Too busy taking 30458304958 pictures like a tourist.
Oh yeah, all the locals were staring at us when we walked through the city. I guess it is pretty weird to see a huge group of Asian students taking pictures around the city after all the shops are already closed.
Really pretty!
This area of Brighton is more of the high-end shops and restaurants. It's really cute and nice.
Obviously though, I can't afford anything here.
Getting near the pier...
This is the Brighton pier... really pretty. The beach is made out of pebbles instead of sand!
It looks like it's mid/late afternoon right now but it's actually around 8 or 9 PM.
The sun doesn't set until past 9:30 here... so I always lose track of time.
Fang bought me ice cream for my birthday... haha thank you!
I didn't think it was possible to enjoy ice cream even more than I do at home, but apparently it is. Ice cream looks and tastes even better in England because it's so expensive.
So... that pretty much concludes my first look at Brighton and second day in England!
Inside Sainsbury's. It was really nice...
I don't know why food looks so much better in the UK. They package it really nicely.
Five random things about grocery shopping here:
1. They don't refrigerate their eggs.
2. Lemon-lime flavor soda is called Lemonade.
3. Some places make you pay 10 pence ($0.20) for a grocery bag.
4. The food expires fast, including frozen food.
5. The cashiers sit down as they ring your orders up. What the...? I want to work in a grocery store in the UK.
After grocery shopping, I went back to school, made and ate dinner, then went back to Brighton for a tour of the city (hosted by the summer program staffers here).
This was the first thing I saw. It's an old church called St. Peter's I believe.
(The real St. Peter's is in Italy...)
I must go see that later. =)
Some random pictures of the city...
I think this place is the Brighton Museum or something... I don't even remember.
Obviously, I wasn't paying much attention during this part of the tour.
Too busy taking 30458304958 pictures like a tourist.
Oh yeah, all the locals were staring at us when we walked through the city. I guess it is pretty weird to see a huge group of Asian students taking pictures around the city after all the shops are already closed.
Really pretty!
This area of Brighton is more of the high-end shops and restaurants. It's really cute and nice.
Obviously though, I can't afford anything here.
Getting near the pier...
This is the Brighton pier... really pretty. The beach is made out of pebbles instead of sand!
It looks like it's mid/late afternoon right now but it's actually around 8 or 9 PM.
The sun doesn't set until past 9:30 here... so I always lose track of time.
Fang bought me ice cream for my birthday... haha thank you!I didn't think it was possible to enjoy ice cream even more than I do at home, but apparently it is. Ice cream looks and tastes even better in England because it's so expensive.
So... that pretty much concludes my first look at Brighton and second day in England!
