My name is Ryan McDonald and I'm a candy addict

So Globalites, I must first apologize for taking so long to write this next blog entry.  I've just gotten into such a routine now and I doubt you're all interested in reading things like "Today I woke up early, then I went to a school, then to another school, then I had practice....."  But there have been some things of interest that have gone on.  For example, my car rebelled against me and I had to take a taxi to all of my schools for the 2 weeks it took for it to get fixed.  I was driving out to Canterbury to run a practice with their university team when I noticed that my car was no longer accelerating.  Peculiar, I thought.  I was in the far right lane of what was pretty heavy London traffic on the highway and had to get three lanes over to the left without the ability to accelerate at all.  After a barrage of honks and a middle finger from a fellow driver (drivers can be pretty rude over here at times), I made it into the breakdown lane.  I had no idea what the problem was with the car, but when I would try to turn it back on it wouldn't turn over whatsoever.  Now I'm no mechanic, but I think that's generally a pretty bad sign.  So I called up the roadside assistance service, and was told to expect someone to be out to me in a half hour.  Well a half hour passed and nobody came.  Then an hour, then an hour and a half, then two hours, and finally after two and a half hours help arrived.  That was terrible.  So the guy towed me and my car back to Orpington (he actually lived on the street over from me, small world) and I was left to overpriced taxi transportation until I was able to my wheels back Saturday.  It turns out the cylinder head was cracked, and after replacing that as well as doing some other tune-ups, this whole ordeal has cost the club 1,200 pounds with an extra 200 or so paid for cab fare.  Thank goodness I don't have to pay for these things.

On to lacrosse.  Wins continue to be hard to come by for us over here at Purley.  We dropped our last two games, both in frustrating fashion.  First against Blues, 12-6.  We had a tough time getting things going offensively and let them get on a 5-0 run in the third quarter.  The following weekend we dropped a heartbreaker by a goal vs. Reading.  Again, the thing that did us in was letting them get on a run.   We battled back at the end to tie it up in the final minute, but gave up a tough transition goal which ended up doing us in.  If we can eliminate these runs during different parts of the game we should be able to get a bunch of wins, but until that happens its going to be tough.  

Outside of our lax woes (which sounds a lot like lax bros) things have been good for me.  I've made some good friends over here and its great to spend time with them all, but I really can't wait to come home for Christmas.  It has been tough being away from you guys for so long but I'm home in four weeks and it will be glorious.  In unrelated news, I think I have a candy problem.  I've always had a sweet tooth, but I've been eating so much candy its ridiculous.  Top culprits are Snickers, Peanut M&M's, Haribo Gummies and Skittles.  I fear I'm reverting to the 5 year old kid that was caught by Buckeye stuffing his face full of fudge only to turn, mouth full, and exclaim "shut the door."  Other than the candy vice, I've been eating pretty healthy.  I've really started to love Indian food and have it for dinner a couple times a week.  Other than that, I've just been crushing eggs.  I go through about 15 eggs a week.  

I'm trying to work out a way to get together with Erin for Thanksgiving.  It's tough that I wont be home, and its the 2nd year in a row I've had to be away for one of my favorite holidays.  (I was in Florence last year visiting sweet Josephine).  I have a game on Saturday though and am not so sure I'm going to be able to get up to Manchester.  But we shall see, I'd really love to spend it with her and Ryan.

So thats it for now Globalites.  Four more weeks till I'll be able to see you guys and it will be great.  For now, I must go get some sleep.  7 am always comes too soon.  Happy Thanksgiving, go Bruins, go Patriots and see you all before you know it.