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Well, I guess this is a topic I’ll constantly add to. So this is only the beginning, and as someone who’s very interested in languages, I am out hunting for Americanisms all the time. One thing is certain: it’s English, but very often, it feels like it’s nothing to do with English at all. And Read more

I guess it’s time I wrote something about baseball. Not that I ever thought I would, or even thought I could get remotely interested in it. But The San Francisco Giants just made it into the World Series, which is a really big thing, and even I got affected by the general excitement. Everybody here Read more

Halloween is fast approaching, and oh my goodness, it’s a big big deal here. Now it’s been creeping over to Europe for the last 5 years or so, but whatever I’ve seen there is nothing compared to here. You can’t walk down the road (not that anybody really walks down the road anyway) without being Read more

Just found this on the BBC website: It’s San Francisco Week! just to give you an idea…. Read more

So it was Columbus Day today, which, I’d always thought, was a public holiday in this country. But it isn’t in California. In fact I didn’t notice that it was Columbus Day until I went to the post office and found it was shut. In other US states, schools are closed, banks are closed, some Read more

Oh dear, my poor old blog has been shoddily abandoned…. I’ve been busy, very busy, my parents arrived a week ago, and things have been pretty hectic since then! Two days after they got here, we left for Yosemite National Park for 3 days, and I’m still getting over the whole experience. This is, after Read more

Ah, life is good. We were told that September and October are the best months here, and that certainly is true. It’s hot hot hot, warming up to 36 Celsius over the next few days. Yay! One of F’s new friends came round today with her mum for a playdate, and it was actually too Read more

I never thought I’d get so excited listening to BBC Radio 1, but it’s all I’ve got here, and Fearne Cotton makes my morning school runs so much more fun. Again, I never thought I’d say this, but I can’t get enough of her voice, and I’m starting to find her really funny. But maybe Read more

F and I decided to venture up to the city today and visit the Aquarium of the Bay, famous for its sharks. We’re nearing the end of September, which means the city is actually becoming nice once more, after months of summer fog. But as it’s been quite hot down here recently, of course the Read more

I’m missing Strictly Come Dancing. I mean that as in “yes, I miss the whole getting involved, watching every single episode, get totally immersed and then can’t wait for the final, having been there for the whole journey”. I’ve missed the first episode, and that’s it, really. It’s just not happening this year. I’m too Read more