Today I bought some groceries (cereal and milk... but I have no bowl or spoon, so I'll have to figure that one out) and a cell phone that will work for texting and calling my friends here (pay as you go) and a hair dryer. The store that I bought the hairdryer in is called Argos, and was the coolest thing. You go in and look through their catalog until you find what you want (their catalog is like 2000 pages long), write down the serial numbers on a little card, then hand it to the cashier. They look it up and charge you, and then you go over to another counter where they bring you your item from the back room.
Anyways, orientation is tomorrow, so I'll have more good stuff to report then, but for now here's some pictures of Winchester:
Some shots of my dorm room. In case you missed it the first time, I get my own room. So far I haven't met or seen anyone in my hall, but I'm sure I'll run into someone soon.
That's the view from my dorm room. Beautiful, right?
That's Maria on the left and Alice on the right, making a wish at a fountain in the middle of the old army barracks. Now they rent the barracks out as apartments.
The streets of Winchester. They're all these beautiful, quaint buildings with modern shops inside. Love it. We had a pasty today at the pasty shop on the right.
Fun fact #1: The light switches in England are opposite ours--down means on and up means off.
2 comments:
anielle:
Awesome pictures! I'll send a spoon and bowl in the package this week. In the mean time, have fun eating out of the box!
Again, cool pictures.
Question? Co-ed dorm! What does that mean? Exactly. Just curious.
Love, Mom
It seems weird for me to use the word "quaint" in a sentence but...
everything here seems pretty quaint. OK, now I hereby retire the word "quaint" from my vocabulary. The more I look at it, the less it looks like a real word. Sorry, I digress.
Anyway, sounds like you're already adapting to the way of things out there. I can't wait for future updates!
-Libby
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