Meeting and Orientation @ Christ Church

Well my day started early at 7:00 am to a very cooollldd room. Got up and got changed and ate breakfast and waited for Meghan to meet me at the end of my road of Victoria and one of the streets called Wincheap. But before I left home, I decided to check on my neighbor whose name is Kathy Kieta. She's was almost ready and when Meghan met me at 8:00 am, we went back to get Kathy who was finishing up breakfast. Kathy came into Canterbury around 12:30 on Sunday and she explored on her own, which included finding the school. She's from Chicago area and she's studying architecture and wants to transfer to UIC sometime. So we all walked to school and were about the first ones to meet in the reception area called Anselm, which is oddly right outside of the chapel (which is inside).
So we all met everyone else and went to this room in the tennis court area. It's a small building type place as a substitute for another building that is being redone. So it looks kinda like a quick construction one floor building. So we met everyone else that is in the program, except for the St. Louis crowd who come into Canterbury next week due to problems in flights.
So I actually had to introduce Kathy to the crowd and that is why I knew a lot about her. So when it was her turn to introduce me, I had told her that I was a Quintuplet and she was very amazed, as were the other students and teachers too. Kind of embarrassing, but oh well.
So then we had meeting after meeting of things to know about and how to act and how the school system is set up. Looked at my class schedule which is on Tues. & Thurs. Tues.: is British Literature from 9 to 12 and Modern Britain from 2 to 5. Thurs.: American Cinema 9 to 11and Ethics from 5 to 7. The way the classes work is that we sit in lecture for about an hour or hour and a half and then we take a coffee break. Then we come back and the rest of the time is for class discussion. So I have at least one person that I know of in each of my classes. So it will be different because it's only 2 days a week, and I was talking to Katerina tonight about how past host students have handled it and she said that they have plenty of time to travel and get their papers done as well. Which is good, so anyways, the next meeting we had was after a break. We went to the student lunch room, or refectory as they call it here :) Looks very nice and cheap student meals of course, but good too! So then back to our room where we had a meeting/video on how to behave properly as a student in Canterbury. To be smart, but to still have fun at the pubs as well. The Head of Student Support Services said that there is not much crime at all in Canterbury, but that people still had to think smart and be responsible. Next meeting was a travel agent director who works with the best student prices of traveling around England and other cities like Paris, Amsterdam, Edinburugh, Brussels, Wales (which includes horse riding!), Oxford, Coswolds, Bath, and Stonehenge, & Dublin during the St. Patrick's Weekend! A lot of these trips are for only 2 days or so, and almost all of them are on Friday's, which cuts into the trips that we are already taking included in the program. So there are some we can't do, and others we can which everyone is excited about. The trips include a 2 or 3 star hotel which you can share with your friends who go on the trip. The hotels are checked regularly so that they are good. Fully guided sightseeing and specified attraction entry charges included, services of a tour guide for the full duration of the tour/day trips. So I will have to see which one's I'm able to afford and actually go on. They seem like a lot of fun and very safe too! But I don't know if I will spend them on the Paris and Amsterdam trips, only because I'm going there after school is done. Ok I will actually have to stop there and write more tomorrow due to tired eyes :D Plus I only have to go to school at 4 pm for another registering for our student id cards on campus. Love you all! XOXO