Fun times on the Island

As for Wednesday, easy school day ever!! I had a Director of Studies meeting. A DoS acts as my liaison/counselor/confidant. I really enjoyed her chat with my group and seems like she wants to help. It helped that I could sleep in and it only took half an hour. I spent the rest of the day shopping with the flatmates. You gotta love Doctor Who!! Half the store was dedicated to one of the best shows ever!

The roommates invited me along to an American-themed party at Pollock halls (the University residences). It was lots of walking but interesting to see what the islands thought of our primitive ways. Yay, beer pong! Went to a club/pub place called Bongo, a little different than I'm used to. Lots of techno music.

You gotta love IKEA!! I did some serious adventuring Thursday. Even bought a day pass for the bus. I figured out that you can either have a helpful or evil bus driver. Mine today was very helpful, even told me when to get off for IKEA. I'm pretty excited about my Daim candies to munch on while studying!

Of course, I noticed Google Maps kindly showed a Pets To Home nearby. And everyone knows "pet store + Kaitlyn= happy". I nearly got killed on the walk through the parking lot. I have yet to learn to look the right way for traffic. But, I made it in one piece. Pets To Home is the UK's version of PetsMart except it's better! They have raw food freezers down one aisle and no prong, choke or shock collars down the other! Woohoo! At least some countries know how do treat their animals right.

On Friday, to top off a fantastic couple of days, I got to pick up my loan check!! Nice chunk of change there! Carrying it around made me suspicious of people near my backpack. It rained on the way to my first graded practical. I ended up spending 3 hours soaking wet in the lab.

On the plus side, the girls and I had a wonderful Girls' night. Some great Chinese take-out and a movie makes a nice end to the week.