Thursday, January 21, 2010

I have finally arrived at my destination!

Wow! Where to start.. well.. after three flights, two trains, and a taxi cab later, I finally arrived at Trinity College. Let me tell you what.. Welsh people are probably some of the nicest people in the world! Just in my little jaunt over to Carmarthen from Cardiff, I had four people help me with my luggage and a nice cab driver on top of that! So very nice!
So I got onto campus around 7pm (2pm Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time or whatever it is we're on) and had the opportunity to meet my flat mates right away! They invited me out since Wednesdays are pretty much like their Fridays. And of course, I couldn't turn that down! So although I was really lacking the essentials to get ready, I did the best I could and met them in the kitchen for a quick drink and then we headed to the campus bar/club. Loads of fun.. but I was quite tired, so I turned in early.
Then, this morning, I was up bright and early for the international students orientation. It honestly wasn't too bad though. Although, today has probably been the longest day of my life. Things we did this morning seemed like weeks ago! But we went on a tour of campus and then of town. And what a cute little town it is! There are an endless amount of shops.. which could be very bad on one hand, but they offer quite the selection of items! I haven't taken too many pictures yet, and even if I had, I still wouldn't be able to upload them. Not at least, until I find a converter that fits a three-pronged american plug. The supermarket, Tesco,(like our Wal-Mart, but still different in very many ways.. that'll have to be a blog post all on its own), carries two pronged converters.. but no three-pronged ones. So that is my mission tomorrow, to find a three-pronged converter so I can finally charge my computer and get the information from it that I need to connect to the Wi-Fi here on campus, and countless of other great things.
Although I haven't seen much of it, the countryside seems to be absolutely breathtaking! Even though it's cold enough that I can see my breath, everything's still so green! We have a little hill right in front of campus with little sheep and whatnot. But it's so picturesque because it's got the little hedges outlining the ends of property, I'm assuming and so flying in, it looked like one big patched quilt of green. My descriptions are doing it no justice. Once I get my computer up and running I'll be sure to upload pictures!
Sadly, I think that's all for now. It's just about midnight and I feel like I'm gonna pass out if I don't get more sleep. I've got another couple of meetings tomorrow since I'm an international student, so I've got to be up and ready by 8:30. Oh joy! But I'll update again and more in detail tomorrow! G'night!

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