A State of Disbelief

And so here I am. In my dorm. At UEA. In Norwich. In England.

Tuesday morning I woke up at 5:00 a.m. with the most excited feeling I've ever had. In fact, I was so excited I threw up.
Yeah. Gross.
Luckily, I felt much better after and I was ready to get on the darn plane already! It was a long trek to get here - and not easy, carrying 120+ lbs of luggage! But I am here, safe and sound. My dorm room is adorable, though small. It's probably a similar amount of space to what I was allotted in my first dorm, but without a second half and a second person. I do have a nifty slanted ceiling and a skylight, though! Also, all the UEA dorms give you a giant corkboard to decorate. It took me until today to get thumbtacks, so it's fairly bare.

I met up with some very fun International students and after a night drinking in the pub, we all decided to go shopping in the Norwich City Centre the next day. It was really great to visit a pub (Gardeners Arms) and eat the stereotypical fish'n'chips meal for the first time overseas! It was delicious, and there were tons of little tiny condiments packets. Everyone laughed at me when I took a picture, but I knew I needed to prove it for my blog - tiny packs of ketchup are to be expected, but tartar? Salad cream? The mucky sounding 'brown sauce'? All packaged in miniature single servings! I'm such a girl, but I thought they were very cute.

After lunch, it was off to Castle Mall. But leave it to me to get separated from the group and lost in the mall (before my new hot pink mobile was activated) and have to spend the rest of the time on my own. To be honest, I didn't mind. I got to explore the city a little, looking at the shops and taking the time I wanted to take at each one. I made it home - NOT on the bus, which my feet hated me for - with a new sheet set (red and rather luxurious looking), some new shower supplies, and groceries. Note that I have not yet bought dishes, so all my groceries are pretty much finger food. I've been living on yummy carrots, 'crisps', and bread-and-cheese sandwiches. Oh, and beer. Well, cider, to be exact. Yum.

Lots of orientation stuff today; none of it even worth mentioning except that I now have a campus card and internet access.

Oh. And the cold isn't so bad yet. Now that I've said that, I'm sure I'll be frozen tonight when I go out wearing a skirt for the first time since I've been here. =P Cheers!