The number of weeks I’ve been here has hit the double digits! And the temperatures here have finally broken into the single digit range so at last I felt like it was acceptable to break out my āwinterā coat. Back home, Iām used to saving my winter coat for when itās absolutely a necessity because if you start wearing your winter jacket when itās only kind of cold and not freezing cold, youāll have nothing warm enough to wear when itās freezing cold. I donāt think I really needed to apply this mentality here in Exeter but some habits die hard.
I believe itās also acceptable to announce to the world that the Christmas season has official descended! We had a light-up ceremony on Thursday in Princesshay, which is like the central shopping district/square; it was all very exciting and lots of good fun. Iām not sure if we have these light-up ceremonies back home; I feel like we would and Iāve just never paid enough attention to know that they were going on. Iāll have to make a note to keep a lookout for it next year. I feel like I keep saying Iāll do all these things once I get back and itās all just going to amass into this one big list; perhaps Iām better off saying that Iāll go back home and try and be a little bit more of a tourist instead of subtly avoiding it.