Organized Chaos

Or so I would like to believe that it is organized. I began my international student orientation this morning which also brought upon the start or course registrations. As it turns out this process is not a simple point and click type registration that I have become accustomed to. Instead it is a feeding frenzy of hundreds of students running around in a large room talking to professors and gathering as much info as possible. I thought 'What the hell, I had nothing else planned today anyways, might as well get this out of the way.' After waiting for the better part of nearly two hours to speak with a prof. it turns out that I can not actually register for anything today and that registration, as it were, takes place over the course of the next two weeks. Also in those next two weeks is the rest of my international orientation as "Freshers" week which seems very similar to our Frosh week. The only positive of the morning, I figured out which Bus NOT to take and I did sign up for a Bag piping class. The kicker with that class is it it not directly through the University so I would have to pay extra and although I don't know for certain, it is rumored to be upwards of 400 pounds.

After a somewhat bland morning of lectures and prolonged sitting, I wandered around Campus getting lost in the most incredible places. I wandered the castle, wound up in a cathedral, tried to climb a bell tower, was escorted down by the same man I had met earlier in the accounting office and found both a book store as well as drugstore to buy paper and shampoo. The travel size is running low.

This evening I was able to do some grocery shopping and got my nights entertainment out of laughing at odd names of food and flavours of chips. Had some great steak pies, meat pies and sausage rolls for dinner.

I stumbled into a store called FAT FACE this afternoon and on the roof they have an incredible quote. I hope to go back and take a photo of it so I can remember it all but the key line that I did hang onto reads "... a bad day on the slopes is still better than a good day in the office, life is out there - Go on and get it!"

Tomorrow I am going to attempt to sneak onto a city bus tour and, if the weather co-operates, possibly venture into the true City Center. We shall see