Wake up in the morning feeling like P. Diddy

9/11/2012

My first night in England was a rough one.  I fell asleep instantly but kept waking up not knowning where I was. I got up at 6:30, I was so tiered I sat in my bed for a good 20 minutes mentally willing myself to get up.  After getting myself pumped with some Kesha and got ready and went to breakfast. I met some other American students and a few other archaeology students, including one in my specific course. It was great meeting someone I would be spending my classes with.

After Breakfast we all went to the student union for some informational seminars. We got a tour of the union, which includes not one but TWO bars, 3 cafes, 4 floors, and a movie theater. It’s a pretty sweet place, I can tell I’m going to spend a lot of time there. We then took a short tour of the campus which did not help me at all in learning how to get around. After A few weeks I’m sure I will get used to it.

We walked back to the main hall and had dinner. The food hasn’t been too bad here which is nice. After dinner was quiz night. We split up between teams of 10 and the asked a lot of random questions about Sheffield, Britian, and other general knowledge stuff. Did you know that Ecuador uses the American dollar? Cause I didn’t. Amazingly my team won!! They said our team name (the wicked Kunals [Kunal is an orientaion leader]) and we all kind of looked at eachother like “is that us? I think that’s us”. We won free tickets to a big party during intro week which was pretty cool. This means that I am 2 for 2 on quiz night wins, go me.

I hung out some people in my hall for a bit before going on the hunt of power source. My laptop was almost dead but I couldn’t get my adapters to charge it. I was thinking “really? None of my stuff is going to work is it”. I was finally able to get the cord to work which was awesome. It’s not just me with these problems either, a lot of people from many different countries are having problems with their electronics. It's nice to .know that we're not struggling alone

This place is amazing, the campus is beautiful, and the people are unbelievably friendly. I’m so happy I choose Sheffield, I’m really loving it here.