Thursday, 20 October 2011

Leeds always seems to amaze me

My legs aren't feeling as bad as I thought today, although they were a bit stiff when I first woke up. Yesterday was the first day I rode through 3 counties in one day! But no riding for a few days, and I Back to writing blogs on my phone again. I am at Sabines place in Leeds, its real nice, I'm jealous considering its basically on campus and her bedroom is a lot bigger than mine at leodis! So this morning I missed my 7:55am bus to leeds, so I had to wait till 10:05am for the next one. This one went to bradford so I just asked the driver if I can get off at bradford instead since I had to go there for my dry suit anyway. He said it was no problem, so instead of going to Sabines when I got in and dropping my stuff off first, I went straight to the dive shop with my backpack and gear. The national express driver made the wing flapping motion to me when he saw my fins, and I said, no they are for swimming! And he said, where? in the sea? And I said "well not in bradford!" When I was on the city bus to bradford we passed a church with a sign that said smile if you love god. Text and drive if you can't wait to meet him! I didn't think priests and nuns had a sense of humor! So when I got to divers warehouse they were real friendly and helpful, I was able to take all my rented gear then and there. Just before I walked in, Dave from luusac who is running this weekends trip called and asked if I could get 12 kg of weights. When I asked the guy at DW for it, he said, you will sink!! When I went to leave I said I was going to take the bus so he gave me a ride to the station. His car was very low on gas so he said "I hope I make it back, what will they think when I say I've run out of petrol with a young girl in the car!!" (He was like 65 BTW). At least that's what I think he said, the bradford accent is worse than the Leeds one! But we got to the station without an incident. I took the bus to Leeds town hall then wanted to hop on the city bus, but I couldn't find the stop so I'm walking up and down the headrow looking like a goon with my backpack, my dive bag full of fins, mask and 12 kg of weights, and the rented bag with my dry and undersuit!! It was not very balanced at all.  I had deja vu of Nathans microwave! I finally found the stop and when the bus came I took a seat close to the front and when I stood up to get off a lady with a cane asked if I was getting off and I said yes but you can go ahead of me, and she goes "no I'm not getting off, I'm taking your seat, its a handicap seat." So I felt like a complete douche! When I got off I got a bit lost trying to find Sabines block, and when I did, there weren't any addresses on the doors! So I asked a few people where 21 was and neither knew but I just had a stab at one and it ended up being hers cause she left a key for me. So when she got back we went food shopping, made veggie chilli, yummmmy!! Then went to swing soc lessons. The same immensely sexy teacher that was there last year when I went to a lesson (and would have been my sole reason for joining the club, had I joined), so that made the lessons fun to watch. I as usual was an awful dancer and I kept messing up the Charletown. And like when did Leeds become land of the giants!? Because every guy at the lesson was a monster!! So I thought, that it was something about swing that attracted tall men, but even at hifi which was where the social was, there were some men towering over us, until we bumped into abba. We hung out with a few swing soc people but then headed back. I can hardly keep my eyes open so it must be bed time

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  1. In Rugby I saw a church that had a sign saying 'Try' 'Conversion' to God. Very clever, and apt. Did you see it Michbear?

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