Well it’s been a while since I’ve last written on here. I guess I feel like there isn’t much to say. I haven’t been traveling, just enjoying school (minus 2 hr long seminars) and hanging out with friends. It’s been really cloudy here with a few days of sunshine. It reminds me of the joke my friends I always talk about when we see high school students walking around state college on a really beautiful day…. the beautiful days are numbered and they make you forget about the rainy, cloudy, crappy, snowy days that usually fill your time at PSU. Canterbury is much the same.

Classes here are quite different. For each of my “classes” I have a 1 hr lecture (with 100+ people) and a 2 hr seminar with no more than 15 people, per week. All courses demand a lot of outside reading, but as an english major I wasn’t really expecting much else. I’m finding it really hard to communicate with PSU from here… trying to plan for course and graduation, and making sure my courses here count for something so I can graduate on time (so if anyone from the abroad office is reading this, please respond to my emails, pleeeease).

I haven’t been homesick yet (well, minus the 2nd day when I was truly ill and wanted to comfort of my own home). And just a little bit when my friends were talking to me on homecoming weekend. I illegally watch the PSU games on my computer, but the last one wasn’t worth me getting my internet taken away so I stopped watching the horrendous game. And this whole “tv license” thing over her– RIDIC! but hey, i don’t watch TV anymore. But it’s not like I’m replacing that free time with work!

Living with first years makes you believe your a first year too. We spend  all our time after classes just hanging around, planning for the night, and being bums. I forgot how cool it was to live in the dorms, despite how noisy the boys are.  The girls on my floor and I love to walk around downtown canterbury, get lattes and window shop (we’re still college kids and too poor to buy anything). But… we’re not to poor to book trips to Amsterdam! We’re going to the first reading/writing week for 4 day :). it’s a huge Uni trip so England will be taking over Amsterdam for a long weekend. I’m ready for some more adventures.

Speaking of adventures….Mike got here on Monday after going to Holland and Germany (he’s the reason I’m blogging. He’s done 4 blogs in 10 days and I’ve done 2 in almost 6 weeks). On the same day he arrived, so did my package from home! THANKS MOM! it had American Oreos (which taste completely different), top ramen, easy mac, and a bunch of other college staples that I was missing. She was even kind enough to throw in some red solo cups and ping pong balls so the americans can teach these english kids some beer pong. (oh and they literally think college life in the states is like american pie or old school).  But in an hour or so,  Mike and I catch a bus from Canterbury to London and then an overnight bus from London to Paris!! We’re staying in the St. Christopher Hostel which is supposedly more like a crowded and wild hotel. So this is where I leave you all… au revoir!

Location: Canterbury, Kent UK