What have I been up to?

It's been a while since I've written anything. That's because I haven't been up to anyhting special. And maybe if I tell you what I have been up to, you'll think to yourself that you do find that special. But that's not the point here. "What is the point here Fleur?" Well, the point is that even though you guys back home might find any news of me special (I'm so touched really, I love you all!), well to me things here have started to become pretty normal.
Walking to the University, or taking the bus. Walking to Owens park computer cluster, or taking the bus. Grocerie shopping, cooking my food. Going to the pub, going to a club (or rather ending up not going).
And I don't mean to say I'm stuck in a rut, by no means. I'm absolutely perfectly happy doing my thing here in Manchester with my new friends. Just as happy as I was in Amsterdam doing my thing over there with my Amsterdam friends.
It's strange really how before I was leaving manchester seemed so far away and so different from Amsterdam. And now that I've been here for a month I've come to realise it was not.
Probably this has a lot to with the fact that the English language is not strange to me at all. I find it in fact quite normal to be hearing and speaking English all day long (even though yes, admittedly(I hate it) you can hear I'm no native speaker).
Last night however I found out that I am still dreaming in Dutch. I was talking to my mom about how much weight I had lost since I came to England (this in fact is not only a dream, it is real; I have lost 3 kilo's in Manchester(no clue how many pounds that is, sorry!)).
I also think that the normality(can I even use that word here?) of being in Manchester has a lot to with, and this is going to sound a bit sappy, my closest friends here. See even though I have only met them a couple of weeks ago I really feel like I have known them all my life( there, I said it...now put away that bucket and throw out those tissues, it was really sweet of me to say that!).
But obviously most of all, and this is going to make you laugh even louder, it has a lot to do with; me! Yes, me! It sounds really self involved I know. But what I mean to say is that people constantly compare things to themself. And when I compare being in Manchester with being in Amsterdam, with the things I was used to, well it's not that different. And also people have a different ability to adapt, one person can adapt himself better to new surroundings than another. And I don't mean to say that I have this amazing ability to adapt, not at all because I actually just told you that things are not that different over here.
So I guess manchester was already close to me, all the time.