The Most I Know About the Goings On in Britain

Okay so the main reason I started this whole blog thing is to get into a habit making entries so I can keep my friends updated while I'm abroad in England. I don't know how many people read this...probably none so now I'm just using it to document the goings on of my summer...which is going to be relatively uneventful.

When I applied for the Education Abroad Program, they advise that you stay up to date with current events in your host country so as to avoid the stereotype of the "ignorant American". I'm a huge procrastinator so naturally I've done NO news reading...until today...and it fell in my lap as I was checking my mail on Yahoo.
On the front of the Yahoo News portion of the Yahoo home page at approximately 11 this morning was a header which contained the words "Spice Girls" and mentioned something about a "Reunion".

Yes, ladies and gentlemen. It is official. The Spice Girls plan to reunite.





My how things have changed since the '90s. It's mind boggling actually. We're talking about the '90's the same way people used to (actually still do) talk about the '80s. Interesting. I mean has anyone else noticed that they now have an "I Love the '90's" on VH1. It makes me feel old.

Which reminds me of this [ridiculous] conversation I had with a friend of mine. There's been a general consensus among my fellow eighth grade graduates that the '80s didn't offically end until 1995. So really the '90s only lasted 5 years. It ended officially with Will Smith's Willenium, according to my fellow conversationalist. The conversation somehow ended with the conclusion that Will Smith's surge of fame in music and film defined the '90s: it started with Bad Boys and ended with him ushering in Y2K with that hit song we know all too well...not to say his career ended there, obviously it didn't, it was just those five years that...WHY AM I EXPLAINING MYSELF?! It was an amusing conversation nevertheless, i dunno, i guess you had to be there.
And no, we were not stoned.

Back to the Spice Girls; i dunno how i feel about a reunion. I think I'm secretly excited about it though. It'd be nice to have a little blast from the past happen while I'm in England.

Sorry to waste your time with my stream of consciousness...but you were the one that decided to read it.