This is going to be shorter and less detailed than I would have like but I'm copping out and tired of re accounting things...
First Day
Move in to my place and go the an OSAP gathering to meet people. It continues at a pub, the Red Lion. I get a meal for 5 pounds. A guy from a couple of tables over says looking at me "Hey man, you look like a chick." I kindly explain that I'm from America, the south, and of Scandinavian decent, basically implying I do what I want. He responds by telling me to get my shit together and that I'm in England now. That I should loose my rosy checks and look like a man. His two friends cackle as he gives me directions to a gay pub. I tell him to piss off. But I am shaken since i haven't even been in the country for 24 hours and end up slipping out and walking briskly to my place to go to sleep. It's on this walk that I realize the studs on the cuff of my jacket could serve a more utilitarian purpose that I thought of when I put them on if it can down to it.
Since then have basically be me like the start of a freshman year at a university far from home. Orientation consisted of talks and videos on British culture and recent history, just trying to navigate the city, and going to pubs. Good news I did find a skatepark in reasonable distance to walk if i have time, or catch as bus to. The weather that first week had been precisely of what you hear about English weather, but yesterday and today have been nice.
I started my primary study on friday and have a paper due tuesday.
Everything is epic here. Tomorrow if I'm not lazy I'll show you what the average day here is like for me.
Cheers!
