Summer in England, off to Nottingham! / 25 top England words

For those of you who didn't know, SGU has an England Abroad Program called the Keith B. Taylor Global Scholar's Program. In lamen's terms, it means you do year 1 in Newcastle, England. It has been a blast, all the international experience with traveling, accents, cultural diversity, really ads to the experience. 

It's great to be able to say, yes I have lived in England, and I watched the World Cup during daylight hours, at a bar... In a CHURCH! (no, we weren't rooting for England)


Newcastle was especially great because I participated in an opportunity to teach pre-med UK students about the school and introduce them to biochemistry and the ways we approach learning medicine during our first years. 


Here I am simulating a laproscopic surgery at the medical simulation camp in Nottingham, UK. 


Experiences like this don't come along often. Being in England was a great opportunity. Here we are in Ye Olde Trip to Jeruselem, England' OLDEST pub, built into the side of a cliff in 1189 AD!! This was all down the road from the Nottingham Castle, the same castle associated with the Legend of Robin Hood. We met a fellow visiting doctor from Romania and had some beers with him. We learned that Porphyrias, medical conditions possibly explaining the origins of Zombies, Vampires, and Warewolves came from a place in Romania called Transylvania. I don't want to bore you with the biochemistry and pathology of the symtpoms, but I emplore you to google it. Needlessto say, this was a great time. This is the stuff you don't get from a US medical school. CHEERS!

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a fun cultural side note: 


 Here are my top 25 words I've noticed are overused here in England:


25) Donner Kebab
24) Quid or Squid
23) Doors Closing
22) Mind the gap
21) Chips
20) Primark
19) Pound
18) Pint
17) Rubbish
16) Bloody
15) Futbol
14) Hiya 
13) Proper
12) Sorted
11) Straight Away
10) Brilliant

9) Righto (yea, that's not a typo)

8) Wammered, Shwammered, Shwalloped, Pissed, Bladdered, Chundered, etc etc etc

7) Closed

6) Can't Do

5) Sorry

4) Right 

3) Top-up  
2) Cheers
1) #$(*&Q


You know, in a way, this pretty much takes you through a normal conversation in England.... now that I look at it... That pretty much sums up most of the language you might hear on a daily basis.

Annd, just to "top up" the laughs... an hilarious photo from "The Big Book of British Smiles", off the Simpsons.  I really do love England though. Really.