Meeting People!!

Hello again! As you probably noticed I tend to write a lot. I apologize if it's a pain haha, but in a few years it'll be really cool to read these over and reflect on how much I've grown up or how ridiculously silly my problems seem. 

Anyway, right now I'm in the library utilizing some free internet and uploading some pictures to facebook. (I'll put the links to those in here when I'm done so people without a facebook can see them). So here's what's been going on lately.

I don't think I've talked about the barbeque yet! Well! Saturday morning I was eating breakfast and Frank mentioned that he and Julia were having a BBQ at our house that night. I asked him how many and when he said about 20 at first I was like hmm ok... that's a lot... haha, but then I started to get pretty excited to meet some people. At the beginning it was mostly the German people they know from their home university, but as time progressed more and more people from different countries came. Most of the time I hung out with Lisa, Linda from Germany, and Laura and Megan from Canada. It ended up being a lot of fun though. I just hope I can remember everyone!

The last few days Lisa and I have done some touring around on our own, exploring shops and looking around, trying to get a feel for things. We've seen some cool stuff and I've taken almost 200 pictures already. The really cool thing though was yesterday when we went on a walking tour. We heard about it on Thursday at the SU Bar and had paid a pound for it then, but we just thought it'd be the International Advisor person (Allison) walking us around and showing us some cool stuff. It turned out that she was leading about 50 of us international people to a company that does "competitive sightseeing" as its business. There we divided into teams and got a packet with a booklet of destinations and questions divided up by colors (colours?) for each region of City Centre. My team had me, Lisa, Frank and Julia (from our house), Ilka (who goes to school with them), and Petra from Finland. Petra was the only one I hadnt met before but she was really cool. It was a lot of fun and the nice thing was that it wasn't about speed. We had until 5:45 to finish all the questions but that was tons of time so we went to eat at West Cornwall Pasty first. My first pasty was steak and potato :D After that we went back to the old courthouse where we first divided into teams, then played a who wants to be a millionaire style game with the answers we'd found. We tied for 2nd! Then after that we all went to a pub called The Cow and had some pizza and hung out. I mostly stayed with Lisa, Boris from Germany, Michael from Denmark, and Linda (from the BBQ) and Christine from Germany, all of whom were at the BBQ the night before. After we'd been at The Cow for a while, Christine wanted to go to an English pub and have an English cider haha, so the four of us girls went back toward our end of town to The Golden Swan and tried some. Lisa and I split one and I can't say I was a big fan. I'm still open for suggestions, people! haha.

So now here we are! We had a meeting with our music advisor this morning, Alan Rochford, but didn't really learn much, it was more of a meet and greet with the 3 of us international music kids, but there's a meeting at 1:00 today when we'll hopefully find out some more things. I think that's about it for now. If anything exceedingly exciting happens then I'll be sure to write about it, but until then, I'll ttys!! Lotsa love! :)

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