Getting Settled

So I am beginning to get settled here in Lancaster.  

On Tuesday it was just more orientation stuff and I did a bit more nesting in the room.  I went to the grocery store in the square of the university and picked up a bit of food to get me through until I could go into town where the food is a bit cheaper.  I stopped in at the Furness College Pub that was open and had my first legal pint!! It was a Deuchar's IPA.  Which was not an IPA in any way as we Americans know it.  It was more like a wheat ale that was a bit more bitter. 

 Yesterday was the last day of formal orientation.  On the break between orientation and the trip into town I spent my time figuring out how to being webcaming with all of you back in the states. I still haven't quite figured it out yet.  Then we went into town.  It is a very cute little British town.  I took some pictures and they will be up later today.  My friend Alicia and I wandered around since our tour guides never showed up (whoops!).  We found some cute shops and picked up some necessities. We grabbed lunch at a restaurant called the Green Ayre.  The cheeseburger tasted a bit like a meatloaf.  I had pint with my meal (it was a deal!) and it was just like a classic wheat ale. Very nice, a bit light compared to some homebrews, but still nice.  

When I got back I finally put up some pictures from back home! Although they make me a bit homesick, it's still so nice to have everyone's faces on my ugly pick walls!  After we went town we came back and I took a quick snooze (accidentally! I had just bought some more pillows and fell asleep while trying them out).  I went down to Alicia's room and we surfed the web for a bit together.  I got to talk to Mike and Joanna online for a bit, so that was very nice.  Then I came back to my room and got my paperwork all set up for today's class registration.  Then I called it a night!  I'm afraid I didn't sleep too well again.  The extra pillows did help a whole lot.  I didn't wake up with a crink in my neck this morning. 

Today was class registration.  It was old school. We had to go to a building and stand in a line for each department and then sign up for each class on paper.  It is such a hassle!  After that I had to go to a department to get assigned a seminar time.  I went back to my room and then realized that one of my classes has a seminar I was unaware of at the same time as another class I'm taking.  So I ran back down to the other end of campus..again...and asked about it, now I have to fill out a drop/add form this afternoon and take it to the department to officially drop the class.  I will still have 16 credits even without this class.  So I'm just going to stick with the 16 credits and not overload myself (they recommend 16-20 credits for the lent/summer term). I'm pretty bummed that a lot of the classes I was interested in taking are on the same day and overlap!! But I will still have some fun classes.  I am taking Sociology 101, History 248 (Men, Women and Warfare) and PCON 233 (Intro to Peace Studies).  It should be an interesting semester.

 I am going back into town today to pick up some food and hopefully checking out the pub tonight!