Day Trip to DC

A very very early start this Friday! had to be at bus stop for 5.50, which meant getting up at 4.45! bad enough at the best of times! However coupled with bed at 3am was a very bad idea

Smokey, the uniion bar, has quizzo every Thursday...and guess what WE WON!! which meant a $50 bar tab and a late night, not the best idea when you have a early morning but still its rude not to drink free beer right! :)

Slept all the way on the bus, much to the annoyance of Tanya I feel who could not sleep. Arrived on DC ready to go and sight see!

Walked around the main landmark sites of the city!

Also visted 2 ABM's how cultural! Went to the air and space meusem, which was good but we didnt stay there for very long.
Then went to the holocast mesuem, which needless to say was very moving and chilling.

Ended the day with dinner at a chinese just in time to get bus back getting into Philly at just before midnight! planning in going back to DC sometime in Januray for a longer stay. A very long, tiring but amazing day! :)

My year so far!

so basically I feel I should create on of these as it turns out that I am useless at telling people what I am actually up to over here, and this way I can tell everyone at once..

Well where to even start... been here for just over 1/2 a semester now so i have a lot to fill everyone in on!
NSO!! or freshers week with a distinct lack of booze, as I like to call it. Sayin that tho the whole time was amazing. We had some pretty dull but expected talks about living in a new place... the definition of 'hooking up' and other random things like this.

Then we had the night at the meusem! this was amazing, the uni rented out the Philladelphia meusem of Art and had a disco in its main area... SURREAL doesnt even cover it, apparently it is the most expensive NSO event in the country and it doesnt suprise me.

Then they are the frat parties! I still cant get my head around them even after been here for 8 weeks!
one we went to in freshers week had a beach in the basement. . . and getting into them is a mission, well its fine if your a girl, but to gain entry you have to have a certain girl guy ratio! its reminds me off every american film i have ever seen.. and i love it!

also in NSO, Harnwell my building. took the freshmen and exchange on a boat trip, which was lovely down the river... driving to the river in nothing less than a yellow american school bus!



When we got off the boat, we then had a late night shooping trip to IKEA with a dj, playing... money to floats around this uni like nothing i have ever seen!

Since uni has started properly uni work is starting to take over my life a little bit more than I would have liked, I was still viewing this as a holiday.. that view died pretty quickly with the constant stream of assigments and midterms that i need to hand in pretty much every week!

I am becoming a American sports fan while i am over here aswell, been to see baseball and ice hockey so far! both where amazing! There was a fight in the hocket match, but Iv now relised that this is the standard over here, and the players only had to sit out for 2mins!

There is soo much more that I could tell you.. but I will keep this up to date from now on!!