A Muggy Saturday with lots of walking

Hello!
Today was fairly uneventful.  Walked probably around 2.5 miles total (it was great to walk) to the outlets in town (bought a Gap top...15 quid...yeah that's all).  It was so weird because this Gap outlet was the exact same layout as the Gap outlet I've been to at home, except for where the dressing rooms were.  I think that's the thing that made me the most homesick out of anything in these two weeks (yup, two weeks exactly since I've gotten here...how weird.)  Then we went to ASDA - I was so glad to finally find a supermarket.  Obviously the all of the Britons shop on Saturdays because that was a packed supermarket.  I got some tortellini I'm excited to have after seeing how bad dinner is tonight.  I also got some Greek yogurt (or yoghurt- however you want to spell it).  And some other stuff.  Not that exciting.  Found the Tesco's Express as well, but that's basically like a gas station in America (actually, I've been to bigger gas stations) without gas.
One thing that has bothered me is the complaints of people around me.  The day pupils at my school seem happy here, for the most part.  They have their qualms (which you'll find at any school), but I believe they like being here and they like the people at the school. The boarders are a different story.  Many of them are miserable, I think, especially because of language barriers.  There aren't many native English-speakers that are boarders, so it's difficult for them.  But I think that immersing yourself is first of all, a great way to learn a language, and second of all, the entire point of coming from wherever you came to go to school.  What's the point of coming here for exchange or whatever if you're just going to whine about how much you wish it was like home?  I like to think that I'm doing a good job of accepting the differences between the UK and the US.  Some of the things bother me, especially with regards to the educational system here, but I know that I must accept that as being a cultural difference.  Plus it can't bother me that much because it doesn't matter how much or how little I'm educated here since I'm going back home after a year.  You can't stay hung up about how everything should be different when it's not and it probably never will be because the UK is the UK, not anywhere else in the world or Europe, for that matter.  It's part of the experience of being abroad, and I think it's the most interesting and useful thing.
Tomorrow we're going to a massive shopping centre.  I don't really need to buy anything, but it will give me the chance to see another place, plus the train ride should take us through the countryside.  That should be lovely.