Drinking is also bad. 18, ours is 21 right? I mean, they're heavy drinkers over there. I think, I could be wrong, Germany is 16? I don't know what's worse, drinking or smoking.

Anyways, another law is that you don't have to wear your seat belt. I tihnk that was made clear big time during the tragic car wreck in France. [You know, they have very similar tunnels to that one in England. I remember being on our way to St. Paul's cathedral and the first words out of our guide's mouth were, "No, wrong tunnel." Anyways, we were told we didn't have to wear them force of habbit, I still did. I mean, they were only the lap belts, but I'm still used to reaching over, grabbing the belt and bringing it back over. I used to hate wearing it, now it's like an article of clothing for me.

To get off the laws, I'll go to the World Cup. Don't even ask how much attention is brought to that. It's deff. like our Super Bowl. Hours before the game. I remember we had a group dinner and it was in a bar type thing. Of course all the tv's were set to the World Cup [England was playing] and for some reason, we were talking about it and our waiter thought we were so interested in it, every time something happened, he came and told us. We were at the Scottish music thing when England lost. There was a guy running back and forth between the thing [almost hit me when I was returning from the bathroom] and would report everything that happened to his table. It was so funny to see this large group jsut jump up, as if a wave, because England scored. But, sadly, we got to our hotel and they had lost. Such a sad day.

Nose piercing. I've never seen anything like it. I just wasn't happin' with my studs in my ears. Everyone my age seemed to have em, if that was it. They were in the eyebrows, chins. Uck, so gross. I mean, and it wasn't just teens. People my mom's age had them. Nothing, you know, hanging from a chain, just a studd, sitting there with neon purple hair. No, not even that. Uck, not me.

And that's all I can think of at the moment.