My Travels

Hello all! Knowing myself, I have predicted that my promises to keep up with everyone while I'm abroad are likely hollow and idealistic. Thus in order to remedy this, and to stay in touch with everyone, I have resolved to update this blog thing at least once a week over the course of my five month stay in the U.K. So if you want to know what I'm up to, just check it out!

As far as today goes, my flight leaves around 9pm out of Newark. It's a group flight so I'll meet other kids in my program before and during the flight. Then a three hour layover at Heathrow until I goto Edinburgh, to begin orientation. Which means that after the 6-hour time addition, I'll be a quarter of a day ahead. 9am = 3pm, 5pm = 11pm, et cetera. Figure I'll adjust pretty quickly.

All my packing's done - pretty much just brought sweaters (jumpers), khakis (trousers), et cetera, and my electronics. I'm living in an apartment building called Darroch Court. I'll most likely have a single and share a common space and kitchen with two or three other people. They'll probably be other abroad students or else British freshmen, from what I hear. I wonder: since they call apartments 'flats' in British, do they call apartment buildings 'flat buildings?' Only wondering because if you told someone unfamiliar with the lingo that, they'd probably get lost looking for a low, wide residence, instead of a multi-story apartment complex.

I've got everything mostly wrapped up Stateside. Applications for my summer job are in - hoping to work at a boarding school as a teacher/coach/dorm counselor. Substitute teacher certification just one superintendent's signature away from being official.

That's it for now, I guess. I'll update again once...something else noteworthy happens.