Tidbits of Info

So now that I'm getting established a bit, I'll talk of some random experiences I've had here thus far. There is one main shopping street - high street- and as you walk towards the city center it becomes just a pedestrian street. There are plenty of pigeons and birds that waddle around and today as I was doing some errands my head nearly got hit by birds on 3 different occasions several minutes in between each other. Also, I've seen a few homeless people as well as security patrolmen as it is a city. I now know where everywhere that I need is located...shopping, church, post office, school, and entertainment. I made first cut for the soccer team and would have played in the game against Coventry today, but it was canceled for some odd reason. I think they were just too scared to play us, their rival.

A few questions I've been asked here are:
Is high school like Mean Girls?
Does everyone drive a truck?
What age are you before you can get your driving license?
Are there really cowboys?
Are there yellow school buses that pick you up to go to school?
Why do parties always have red plastic cups? Are red ones for alcohol and blue ones for everything else?
Is everyone in America fat?
Whereabouts exactly are you from? - they never know where ND/MN are...so I started carrying around a map of America.
Have you been to New York City?

Some questions are easier to answer than others. My flatmates also ask me a lot about what I believe in and about how I was brought up. I also am kinda nervous about making food around them sometimes...so I'm sticking to things like pasta and sandwiches for now. Though I did buy some hot cross buns and they told me to toast them...they were de-lish.

I am not picking up an accent, but I am leaning words for things:
Nickers/underwear, lift/elevator, cheers/thanks or hooray, bursary/financial aid, boot/trunk, wheely can/trash bin, rubbish/garbage, pavement/sidewalk....and it goes on and on. I'll take notes of better ones I come across hopefully.