1st day at university

Ok so yesterday was my first day at Kingston-Upon-Thames University, London and I thought I'd share my experiences here for anyone who might find themselves in the same situation over the next few days, or just for those who want to know what I'm up to.

I arrived at about 11am yesterday morning and was shown to my room and told where the laundry services, common room and reception are. After my mum left I began unpacking, obviously heading straight for the laptop and router - which, a note left in the room said, would not be allowed. Well its working just fine and I'm getting an 8MB connection which is great!

I set off to enrole with 2 others after the bus didn't turn up - hope that gets better next week - and, after a 15 minute walk, found ourselves at the main Penryn Road buildings and at the back of a very long queue of fellow enrolers. A couple hours later I left with my student card complete with dodgy photo.

I spent the rest of the afternoon unpacking and getting my laptop etc setup and started to wonder why the other 3 students in my flat were being rather quiet. Turns out, after some door-knocking, there wern't any more students in my flat.

Hmm, could have sworn it was THE moving-in day.

After accepting that it was a dinner-for one- I went to put on some pasta but was stopped by a random buzzing which turned out to be, well, a buzzer-intercom-type-thing.

Turns out it was the amusingly named 'Freshers Angels' who were a group of 2nd year students rounding up the freshers to take us to a bar...perfect.

So after taking a 15 minute guided walk feeling like a group of school-kids we reached a cool bar on the bank of the Thames - felt rather good sat out on a fairly warm evening by the river having a few drinks.

Made some new friends - obviously - and it turns out most people were also on their own in their flats, which made me feel much better about my isoltion.

Woke up this morning with a hell of a hangover and will go and explore Kingston and Surbiton later, I need to find a supermarket and the Apple store...

Alistair