Weird little differences

Hello Everyone! I'm slowly but surely readjusting to the Home of the Free and the Brave. I will be doing just fine for a couple days, then I'll see something like a photo and just get hit by a wave of Cardiff-sickness (like homesickness but not quite). Here are some oddities that I've noticed.

1. Price Chopper has a British Food section in their International Aisle. These include: Heinz Beans, McVities digestives, Marmite, Branston Pickle, Wine Gums, Cadbury drinking chocolate, Bounty Bars and some Worcestershire-flavoured crisps.
2. Floor numbers start at 1 again. Not ground-floor.
3. Professors here measure paper length in pages. British lecturers went by word-count.
4. I must sound a little schizo when I talk sometimes. I'll lapse into British slang and have to correct myself so that I can talk 'Merican.
5. I still write my dates like 28/8 instead of 8/28 and still manage to hang onto all those extra letters in spelling words.
6. I have to tell the temperature, volume and weight in Imperial measurements, not metric. For example, I'm used to mince being in 250g or 500g amounts. Here, it's called ground beef and it's measured in ounces and I am helpless to figure out how much to buy.
7. One of my housemates brought an electric kettle to school. So yes, they do exist in America. And yes, I do use it to cut down on pasta-boiling time. It is labeled in litres so I had to convert to cups for my macaroni recipe. Fun Fact # 40: 1.5 L is around 6 1/3 cups.
8. I can still bond with people over the rugby, like one of my Religious Studies professors.
9. I am back on a Liberal Studies curriculum. This means that I have some required courses to complete outside of my Biology major (such as history, English, fine arts, a foreign language, philosophy, religious studies and social sciences). British students specialise and do so early on. I won't be doing so until graduate school! 
10. There is no Peri-Peri anything in the stores I've checked.
11. I still default to the left when I walk to class and up the stairs.

I am in four classes this semester. They are: Religion: Theory and Method, Hinduism, Biochemistry and Traditional East Asia. I am very excited. I will be finishing up two minors this semester (Chemistry and Religious Studies. Quite the combo!). 

Theory and Method is interesting. It's about how we study religion. Rather meta. I am one of eight people in the lecture. There's another hard-science major in the class (she's majoring Physics and minoring in Religious Studies). Only one boy in this course!

Hinduism will be one of my more challenging courses. I'm climbing out of my little Abrahamic religions box that I've been in since forever and am starting to see what else there is. 

Biochemistry is my lone science-y course. It has an online component to it (in the form of homework). Organic Chemistry was tough for me. I don't really do well thinking about reactions in the abstract, so I hope that this will provide some context! The course is huge this year. The professor had to open up another lab section to accommodate all the students!  

Traditional East Asia marks my last Liberal Studies requirement. It is a history course focusing on China and Japan up until the West arrives onshore (1800's or so). The professor is from Taiwan. I got the opportunity to use my, admittedly rusty, knowledge of the region.

On top of all this, I will be taking the DAT later in the fall. It's going to be a year for the books, that's for sure!

Cheers!