Dorm life

In our group of internationals, you can already tell that everyone has a very distinct personality. Amanda's the sweet one, Emme's the talkative one, Julie's the soccer mom, and I was dubbed the one that "says random things." If only they knew how true this was.

The food here is, how do you say it... interesting. I think it's just because I live off of cafeteria food 5 days a week, and you can't really expect mass produced food to be that good anywhere. However, you can guarantee that they'll serve beans and potatoes (jackets) at every meal. But really, beans on toast is a commonly eaten breakfast food.

I eat with my court - Tree Court, which has 6 blocks. I'm in Block A, 3rd floor. How the English label their floors is something I'm having a hard time getting used to. Instead of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th, it's Ground, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.

The first day when I got my room assignment, I headed up to what I thought was the right floor, put my key in the lock (because it did fit), and sat there for about 2 minutes before realizing the 2 in 02.05 meant 2nd floor, not 3rd. I had just spent the last 2 minutes trying to get into a boys room.

My room is a single, and pretty spacious at that. Here are some pictures:

On the bullatin board next to my desk, I've decided to decorate it with pictures, postcards, and event flyers organizations and bars hand out around the university (uni). My favorite flyer is the one a religious organization on campus gave to me, all it says is "Coke. Sex. Beer."

You can really tell the studying dynamic here differs from that in the U.S. All girls carry to class are purses. Everyone has these 6x8 notebooks, doesn't take notes, and absolutely no one is on their computer. Maybe this allows them to pay better attention than students in the States? All I know is sitting through a 2 hour class without the internet as a distraction is very challenging.

Normally when I meet people here and they ask me where I'm from, most pretend to have heard of North Carolina. I happily give them a geography lesson explaining its proximity in relation to New York and Florida. However, last night I met these boys that only knew about North Carolina because of its most renowned fact: Michael Jordan is from there. You could guess we got along quite well.

And I finally found a site whose lack of licensing lets me listen to music over here - FratMusic.com!! Haha