What I have slowly began to discover about my American friends here at I-House is that they are extremely open. More open than I think I have ever seen a person be in my LIFE before. My friends back at home would always find it highly amusing to talk about rather embarrassing topics whilst I cringed in the corner (I am known as the baby of the group). However, they are innocent, INNOCENT, compared to Americans (or the Americans I have met anyway).

Despite almost dying during yesterday's dinner conversation and demonstration (yeah, don't ask, it's already etched deep enough into my memory thank you) I find it surprisingly refreshing. There is no embarrassment, no judging and you feel as if that person completely trusts and likes you if they are willing enough to share their most private memories and experiences with you. It's also quite nice to know that if you ever have something to get off your chest or are curious about that you can easily go to someone and talk about such things because they are so not embarrassed by it all. They love to share. It feels like proper friendship. The phrase 'that's just too much information' really doesn't exist here. Americans (sorry I should specify, American girls) just love to share their experiences with everyone; they love to talk and they really couldn't care less about being embarrassed by what they say. It can be about anything. From their bowel movements to exactly what someone gets up to with their boyfriend in the library.

Highly cringe worthy stuff for a British person (especially me, the girl who decided she wasn't going to buy underwear yesterday because there was a male cashier - and yes, he was quite clearly very gay).