- 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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