Okay, sorry to bother you all. What is life like for large families. Do they have scouts, boy and girl scouts, soccer, baseball, football. what is religion like in the UK for a methodist. How are kids of all ages, elementary, preschool, middle school and high school? do they welcome americans or torture them?
Okay, sorry, I'm being paranoid.
What about TV, the internet, Ipods, music on the radio? Thanks! Ginny
We have Scouts, Cubs and Beavers for boys, and Girl Guides, Brownies and Rainbows for girls. These all go up to age 14, although there are leadership opportunities thereafter. I believe that there are also mixed Scout groups, but I can't tell you too much about that.
Soccer (football) is the national sport and so there are opportunities for all ages, from 4 to adult to play at an amateur level.
Rounders is a rough equivalent of baseball, and rugby is a bit like American Football, but without all the padding and with more rough tackles.
There was a methodist church where I used to live, but I don't know about here. TBH it's not something I look out for, as I'm not a Christian. As another poster said, religion is a lot less "in your face" but you do occasionally get people in town singing loudly and obtrusively about how much Jesus loves you (they are generally the subject of redicule). Whilst about 70% of the country puts down Christian on the census forms, only about 1 in 10 go to church regularly (beyond hatchings, matchings and dispatchings, or Christmas / Easter) and many barely believe in God - they just don't quite know what else to label themselves, and perhaps their parents were Christian, so they put down Christian.
TV - you need to pay for a TV license, which is about £130/year. This gives you access to the five main channels (BBC 1 & 2, ITV, C4 and Five). You can also buy a freeview box for about £30 and this gives you access to about 100 channels total. The BBC has no adverts (it is funded by the TV license, which you need to pay whether or not you watch the BBC) and other channels will have less adverts than you are used to.
Internet - just the same. Ipods - just the same.