International Relations

If you're reading this you know me.

Well, when I say you know me, no-one who knows me in my offline life reads this (god forbid!) so I mean my online friends. Notice I don't call my offline friends my "real" friends as over the past year my online friends have become as real to me as my alarm going off at 530am for work when Im working the dreaded day shift.

Most of my friends are American, some Australian and the odd Canadian. Jenna's not that odd but you know what I mean....

I digress, a 12.5 hour shift and wine does that.

We all speak the same language - allegedly

Honestly you guys talk funny!! It's not me, I'm normal, I speak the Queen's language with a quirky Welsh twist (Wenglish), you lot speak a different language altogether. I have whole conversations with Helly or Brian that none of us understand and explanations fly back and forth as we try to clarify what the other meant.

The time thing amuses me no end, different times in the same country - too funny - or should I go American and say Go Figure..... - West Coast 8 hours behind, East Coast 5 hours behind, the middle I have no clue. Damn international date line....

I don't understand American Football, you call football soccer and Brian calls cricket demented baseball when cricket is clearly the saner game. I don't get Thanksgiving or the funny little holidays you get- Martin Luther King Day - who'd have thunk it???

I understand only about 80% of Brian's blog, about 50% of Dead Honkey (which is probably the same or more than anybody else) and a recent posting of Memoirs of a Gouda left me completely clueless.

You are used to my cwtches by now - Welsh for hug for the uninitiated and I want to send a big cwtch to the friends involved in the Travel Log adventure..

A member of grab staff asked if I could help out with her niece's school project. The class were compiling a kind of chain letter Travel Log. Deb sent it to me from Texas. I sent it onto Shaun in England who sent it to Helly in California. She's sending it to Jenna in Canada who is then going to send it to Scot in Michigan. If we had more time we'd get the Aussies involved but theres an October deadline. So in a month between us, we've covered 4 countries - pretty cool. Anything for the little ones eh? my postcard was the first and maybe only European one - we've earned this kid some serious brownie points in school.

But there is help at hand - for handy translations from UK English to US English try English to American.com. And yes, fanny and fag is there, I looked....

Unfortunately theres no help for deciphering blogs written by a tipsy, wine guzzling, Welsh chick who's been up far too long.......