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Ciao everyone, I finally have an internet connection, and let me tell you; IT WAS NOT AN EASY FEAT! There was no phone line in my flat, so I had to get it installed. £70 - just for the installation!!!! There's also a usage (bandwidth) restriction on the broadband connection. I've never heard of anything like it before!!! I love my cable modem back in Finland more than I thought I did.
So, the good news is the course seems great. Kent is looking mighty marvelous, Maidstone is an old town with much more to do and look at than I had imagined. Bad news are that I'm a superb hermit, a real loser over in loser-town (ie my room). Ok, not really, but I do feel a bit - what's the word, oh yeah - foreign! More bad news is that I got sick. Right in the beginning of the term! Am I just not so very lucky? You have to get registered for a doctor before they will see you. So yesterday I went to the advice office and asked what I should do. There was only one doctor who would register me, apparently, and it's a 15 minute drive away - not by walking distance. Well, I called and got an appointment for today, but being scared as hell of the buses, not knowing where they go, I had to take a taxi. But it cost less than I thought it would, £5.10, I think. So, the doctor's appointment went okay - he asked a bunch of questions, checked my weight and height, blood pressure etc. Then he prescribed antibiotics for me only with the information I gave him about my ailment. Weird. I don't mind, but unheard of in Finland.
Going to the doctor didn't cost anything, oddly enough. I don't know what that is about, apparently the social network works better over here than I thought.
Now I'm trying to install a wireless network so that my flat mates can get online as well, but it's harder than I thought. I can't use the router I got directly as the modem, because the stupid broadband connection only recognizes the modem that came with it. I don't even think that you can put a mac on the same network as a windows PC. Grr. I'll just ask the guys if they know anything about these kinds of things. I'm sort of lost as I've never done this before. I hope to get it to work, because then I don't have to pay for the internet all on my own, we'll split the bill.
I'm sure I haven't remembered to tell everything worth telling, but it'll come to me later, I think.
PS. There's absolutely nothing on British TV. Absolutely. Nothing. I paid £126 for a tv license and there's nothing on!!!
So, the good news is the course seems great. Kent is looking mighty marvelous, Maidstone is an old town with much more to do and look at than I had imagined. Bad news are that I'm a superb hermit, a real loser over in loser-town (ie my room). Ok, not really, but I do feel a bit - what's the word, oh yeah - foreign! More bad news is that I got sick. Right in the beginning of the term! Am I just not so very lucky? You have to get registered for a doctor before they will see you. So yesterday I went to the advice office and asked what I should do. There was only one doctor who would register me, apparently, and it's a 15 minute drive away - not by walking distance. Well, I called and got an appointment for today, but being scared as hell of the buses, not knowing where they go, I had to take a taxi. But it cost less than I thought it would, £5.10, I think. So, the doctor's appointment went okay - he asked a bunch of questions, checked my weight and height, blood pressure etc. Then he prescribed antibiotics for me only with the information I gave him about my ailment. Weird. I don't mind, but unheard of in Finland.
Going to the doctor didn't cost anything, oddly enough. I don't know what that is about, apparently the social network works better over here than I thought.
Now I'm trying to install a wireless network so that my flat mates can get online as well, but it's harder than I thought. I can't use the router I got directly as the modem, because the stupid broadband connection only recognizes the modem that came with it. I don't even think that you can put a mac on the same network as a windows PC. Grr. I'll just ask the guys if they know anything about these kinds of things. I'm sort of lost as I've never done this before. I hope to get it to work, because then I don't have to pay for the internet all on my own, we'll split the bill.
I'm sure I haven't remembered to tell everything worth telling, but it'll come to me later, I think.
PS. There's absolutely nothing on British TV. Absolutely. Nothing. I paid £126 for a tv license and there's nothing on!!!