it begins.
alright, so i'm posting. mainly because it is almost 9 pm here and i've been up pretty much since 8:30 am american time yesterday aside for maybe an hour-2 hour doze and i need to skype my parents when they get home in about an hour and a half....run-on sentence?
well, i got here safe and sound, thankfully. even my luggage. i waited forever and was about to go to baggage claim when out it popped. i met a big group from ohio headed for keele in atlanta. i heard them talking about staying 4 months, bringing sheets and was like, are you studying over there? and it went from there. they're nice, just a little more intense then me. but i tag along with them and they don't seem to mind. i met some other americans, a bunch of canadians, an austrailian, a spanish girl, and a dude from holland. they're all pretty cool. and considering that this intense social interactions hindered by exhaustion tend to overwhelm me, i'm happy to say that i'm pretty stable.
the campus isn't all that attractive...but i'm sure that's due to the dreary weather. they say it gets worse in february but by spring it's all pretty and stuff. my room's nice and big and single. it's weird, we have a group of buildings labeled altogether as a building and divided by blocks. in each block there are a good many rooms, 19 in mine (i'm 19th), and you climb flights of stairs for just about every room, like we all get a 'many' floor to ourselves. i haven't met anyone in my block cause the doors are always closed and the school just got done with exams, so i'm sure much is being done elsewhere. but, i do know people close by, so that's good.
and, i finally have the internet in my room. that was a rather trying process, but it's done. i'm kinda bummed because skype is not allowed on campus, but it was told to us that people do it, jsut be careful about closing it down because you're only allowed so much bandwidth a day. kind of weird. they're kind of strict here. to get tech support to help set up your internet cost ten pounds. yikes.
this is probably the longest entry i've ever made. whoo, go me. it killed about 12 minutes.
i think i do better adjusting nowadays. it's weird how it's always the things i look forward to that freak me out the most, like college. but i'm trying to realize that freaking out doesn't help anything and that things will come together quicker if i just do what i can. God has me here for a reason, and i shouldn't stress myself out about fitting in. i tend to be very insecure, but it has gotten better.
alright, enough now i suppose.
well, i got here safe and sound, thankfully. even my luggage. i waited forever and was about to go to baggage claim when out it popped. i met a big group from ohio headed for keele in atlanta. i heard them talking about staying 4 months, bringing sheets and was like, are you studying over there? and it went from there. they're nice, just a little more intense then me. but i tag along with them and they don't seem to mind. i met some other americans, a bunch of canadians, an austrailian, a spanish girl, and a dude from holland. they're all pretty cool. and considering that this intense social interactions hindered by exhaustion tend to overwhelm me, i'm happy to say that i'm pretty stable.
the campus isn't all that attractive...but i'm sure that's due to the dreary weather. they say it gets worse in february but by spring it's all pretty and stuff. my room's nice and big and single. it's weird, we have a group of buildings labeled altogether as a building and divided by blocks. in each block there are a good many rooms, 19 in mine (i'm 19th), and you climb flights of stairs for just about every room, like we all get a 'many' floor to ourselves. i haven't met anyone in my block cause the doors are always closed and the school just got done with exams, so i'm sure much is being done elsewhere. but, i do know people close by, so that's good.
and, i finally have the internet in my room. that was a rather trying process, but it's done. i'm kinda bummed because skype is not allowed on campus, but it was told to us that people do it, jsut be careful about closing it down because you're only allowed so much bandwidth a day. kind of weird. they're kind of strict here. to get tech support to help set up your internet cost ten pounds. yikes.
this is probably the longest entry i've ever made. whoo, go me. it killed about 12 minutes.
i think i do better adjusting nowadays. it's weird how it's always the things i look forward to that freak me out the most, like college. but i'm trying to realize that freaking out doesn't help anything and that things will come together quicker if i just do what i can. God has me here for a reason, and i shouldn't stress myself out about fitting in. i tend to be very insecure, but it has gotten better.
alright, enough now i suppose.