First week in England

Well, these first few days have certainly been an adventure and I've discovered a few unusual difficulties I had not expected. We arrived early Tuesday morning after a full day of traveling and about thirty hours with no sleep. To keep us all awake, our faculty kept the group busy with tours of campus and seminars with other international students. The people of Worcester are very helpful and friendly, but we were all confused at first by the way they greet people. Instead of saying, "How are you?" they say "You alright?". At first we were unsure of the proper response is "Fine, thanks." NOT "Don't I look alright?!"
I've begun to put together a mental dictionary of different words they have for things here:
car park= parking lot
lorry= truck
rubbish bin=garbage can
hoover=vacuum (this one came about today when I found vacuum bags in the kitchen but wasn't exactly sure what they were so I asked our new flatmate. We were both confused until his friend said, "oh these are hoover bags!")
I'm sure there will be more to come.
Cheers!