Orientation is officially over! Well, it has been for a day, but I forgot to update last night.

The first day was arrival and tours of the dorms--my roommate was on my coach bus so I met her right away. The second was tours of the castle and grounds, as well as medical registration and a computer seminar. The third was pretty much a lecture--just a lot of people talking for a few hours--followed by academic registration (which I didn't even need to do). The fourth day was an intro to student services, followed by a Castle 'fate' (fête) and karaoke--which turned into a dance party and was so much fun! On the fifth day--yesterday--we travelled to Pevensey Castle, Birling Gap, the University of Sussex, and Brighton. I got a ton of awesome photos and two candy bars for one pound. It was great.

Today was my first day of classes. I had drama at 8:30 am (sob) and a double period of film in the afternoon. Both were great, although I was somewhat overprepared for both--my friends and I wore our studio clothes for drama but didn't need to, and I brought my camera and tripod to film, and while I am one of the few students with equipment (and the only with a tripod), I also didn't really need any of it today. Oh well. Better to be overprepared, right?

I'm already making friends, which is wonderful, and I am really loving this so far. I'll update again soon! :)

I'm in England!

I arrived early yesterday (around 6:30 GMT), waited around for the coach bus, and went to campus. It's small, nice, really fields-y; it reminds me of upstate New York, except less hilly. I've mostly been doing required stuff: tours of things, medical registration, a computer seminar, hall community meetings... That sort of fun thing. It's also been nice meeting and getting to know people (like my roommate, Rachel, who seems pretty cool so far!), as well as finally meeting people in person as opposed to on facebook.

The view from my window is awesome; I see fields and cows (they get pretty close to my room...) and sometimes rabbits and yeah I really love it. It's a nice change of scenery from the city.

So as of Day 2, I'm enjoying this.