first few days!

Here I am!

Who can believe that I am actually in Cardiff. My room is about 1/10 of any of my rooms over the past 7 years of my life, but at least I have my own bathroom! Woo shower! Even better, I have one of the backrooms, which means that I get to look over our garden! Yay garden!

Well I have some amazing flatmates (so far) and they are lovely! Rachel and Katy are just so amazing and in the true British fashion, welcomed me with cake and a cup of tea. It was just perfect! They are very good to me and I don’t think I quite deserve it, but that is how it goes I guess. We are still waiting on the other 5 people of our flat to come, and hopefully they are as amazing as we are!

Life is pretty fun here, and I’m starting to get myself settled. Spent more money than I should have yesterday on buying food things and things for the room, but at least it look’s nice. I have red sheets, which aren’t satin, and a funny little duvet! I know that today we are getting our student ID cards, and going shopping again!

But this place is like a fairy tale. We live right next to everything that we need, but it’s a lot of fun. I really enjoy it.  There is a castle down the road, we live all around parks, and I already had people ask me to say things because I’m American. Very typical, very interesting… There is so much to do here, I really hope that I get a chance to do them all within my four years here. It’s very exciting.

Who would know that in order to get my American in everywhere I can I would start listening to B.o.B and  hard rap music. We went out a few nights ago to the Student Union which is also a club, and it was a blast! I amazed the girls when I could rap along with Slim Shady and sing all the Journey my heart could handle. Leave it to me to have my first night here involve wine and staying out until 2 am! Man, lets see if I can keep up with this now with the jetlag and the pending courses starting. This should be interesting. At least yesterday on the bus I met someone in my program and we can get together and she lives 2 houses down from me. (Important) She has been awesome and today is her birthday! I love birthdays, so we are going out to our pub tonight, it's pretty amazing. Called the Blackweir, it has a Beanery feel to it, and I'm already good friends with the bartenders. Leave it to me to figure that out too soon. But they are a blast, and the drinks are cheap (also important).

The big fun thing right now is that I have internet for the first time in days! Checking my email and making everything work, getting on facebook … I was starting to feel out of touch with the world. But I have it working, thank God!  Will update more later. I just have to start putting pictures up here too!