Trip to England and First Few Days

Well, now that i got hooked up with internet and have enough time to start this, here is my epic adventure: England style. I started out leaving Fargo at 1:30pm and I arrived in London at 5am...which converts to be 11am. I met with a professor and ended up sitting in a coffee shop for 2 hours until the other 2 Moorheadians arrived. We drove north of London and I got my first sights of the country. The grass was green and short, it was a tad overcast and the houses were cute with their bricks and trim. Definitely could see that I wasn't in ND anymore since there was no snow at all.

A few hours later I found myself in Lincoln viewing the tremendous cathedral (larger than the castle next to it) and checking into the Junxion where the 3 of us live. It is not owned by the university, but it pretty much is student accommodation apartment flats in an 8-story-high building with a courtyard in the middle. So far I met 1 flatmate who was very helpful though she was caught off guard because she didn't know I was going to be moving in. I live next to 4 girls that are law and finance and accounting students from around England. We share a lounge with leather couches, flatscreen tv, kitchen, and dining area. I have my own room with my very own walk in bathroom and shower that is very handy - i'm so used to sharing that I feel spoiled.

I had a friend take me to pick up a comforter, cell phone, and a few things the first night and got sittuated and talked to my flatmate for a bit. Day 2 we signed up for classes and walked to a nearby convienience store. There I bought strawberry yogurt with wholegrain oats mixed in, which i didn't even notice until I tried it, but ended up it was the best yogurt I have ever had :) I met up with some acquaintances at the chinese buffet Yo-Yo's next door then that evening went across campus to the astro-turf soccer fields (will probably use the term footie in place of soccer now). I practiced with 8 girls and I fit right in since the warmup was similar to Moorhead's dynamic stretching and there were girls more out of shape than me from the break. We had a shooting drill where I did well in stopping shots then I got to play 4 v 4 on the wet turf (it did rain a tad) and found I had some ball shooting and passing skills that worked great and my team won by a lot. I'm excited for the next one on Monday. I walked back home with a Dutch girl on the team and she was great to talk to and was very helpful. I really like hearing the British accents and just being here.