Thursday 1/14 - Day 3

Waking up today was a little bit difficult. Jet lag is a little hard to overcome. However, my roommate, Karly, & I woke up in enough time to get downstairs for breakfast - cereal & milk from glass bottles. Milk men are still in full swing here. :) The walk to school was easy enough. It's a bit easier in the daylight, & we learned a shortcut that takes us through the rear of campus. We met in the classroom we have been using, & were chit-chattng before the orientation got into full swing. Most of the students are from Wisconsin, albeit all over Wisconsin, several are from Latrobe, PA (which I know my dad will appreciate), some from California, a few oddballs, like myself, and there are a handful from other European countries.

Our day consisted of learning about the library, or the Learning Resource Center, getting our student ID's made, getting set for registration of classes, or at least learning how to do it, hearing about the religious offerings on campus, lunch (the cafeteria was getting easier to navigate at this point), a Q & A session about London in general, and finally, a woman from a tour guide company came to try to sell us some trips. Everyone was incredibly excited about the last two events. The other three girls that I came with & I stuck around after everything was over to talk about what we want to do, which is generally everything.

I tried to get my laptop to work on campus, but there was some kind of issue with the wireless, so I spent a while on the school computers talking to people from home. I was still without functional phone at this point, so I decided to try & walk to Twickenham, with only a vague idea of where it was, to try and get everything sorted out. However, by the time I got there, everything was closed. Most stores close here around 6, and I'd missed it by about an hour.

I walked back to campus, where I met with Kaitlin & made vague & general plans for our St. Patrick's Day in Ireland adventure. It didn't seem as if flights would be too expensive, & we were able to even get a hostel for the day itself. I walked back to my house from campus, talked to Mike, my host parental figure, for a while, then went upstairs to try and get ready for tomorrow. I hadn't taken any pictures yet, which kind of bothered me, so I made a mental note to do more of that. I went to bed with the thought of the weekend on my mind...

And so ends Day 3