Moving in weekend!

HELLO.

I promised a blog post and here it is! Even though it's only been two days there's a lot to talk about, so I'll try my best to update you (mostly my mum, who I think is now reading this) on everything that's been going on! It's currently almost 1am but I'm not tired at all, so I might a well type this up while I have the time as Fresher's officially starts next weekend and it's going to be manic and probably quite insane so. Firstly, here is my dorm room:

I avoided the desk because it's pretty messy right now, and my bed isn't exactly stunning in that picture either, but there you go! I need to organize the books too but for now they're all stacked on top of one another without any order at all. I arrived on Saturday at about 2:00ish - they journey was meant to be three and a half hours but the traffic was pretty bad in Bath, so it was just over. The halls I'm in has seven people, and only one was there when I arrived, but three arrived almost exactly when I did. The two other guys arrived today, and I'm so happy that everyone is super nice. I always expect the worst in a lot of situations but all six of my 'flatmates' are nice and so are the five I've met from the halls next door - two of their people arrived today as well but I haven't met them yet! Yesterday I spent quite a bit of time with my parents shopping for kitchen stuff, but when I got back around 7:30 my halls and the halls next to us ordered pizza, which I didn't eat because I already ate with my parents. We went to the club pretty early, 10pm and that was a good decision because it got so, so busy that the five of us made the collective decision to leave and go back to the flat. We stayed in the kitchen and talked for an hour or so, which was really nice, and then went to bed. I didn't sleep that well, probably first night nerves, but it was pretty funny to hear the completely trashed people outside.

I woke up pretty early this morning (though it feels like yesterday, this day went super fast but because I did so much it feels like two days rather than one), so I could meet up with my parents before they left for home. I joined the others in the kitchen for breakfast and again, really nice people which is great, and then met my parents around 10:30. More shopping and then saying goodbye, which actually went pretty well. I miss them, but I'm already feeling quite settled which is really nice. I was expecting to cry but so far I haven't - mum got a bit teary though - but I think we were all expecting that!

I got back around 2:00 and at 3:30 the new guys moved in, and (repetitive) they were nice too. I missed the accommodation induction the day before so I went at 4:30 with one of the new guys (the other went out with his parent, I think) and we collected our library cards together too. Once I got back, one of the girls in my halls and I went to meet some people who had joined a book club group on Facebook for the Fresher's, and there were ten of us that turned up. It was really nice to meet people other than the ones in my accommodation and they were really friendly too! We ended up in a cafe and talked for almost two hours about Uni, our courses and books, and decided that we would each pick one of the six books from the Man Booker shortlist and meet up to discuss them at a later date.

This blog post is getting really long and also pretty boring so I'm sorry for that! Anyway, after we got back I had some dinner, rang home for a quick catch up and we went to a party at 8 (yeah, I know, super early) that was in the halls of a block further down where we stayed for a hour and a bit talking before we headed to a different party hosted by some Welsh people. As a result of this, they said we could only enter if we had sheep drawn on our arms. As a result:

The 'India' came from a guy who wanted to brand everyone with his home country, while the bright blue Wales came from a different Welsh girl in the halls. After we stayed there for a bit me and two others from my halls headed to the club, and after that we met up with another girl in our hall, came home (I just typed home subconsiously! This is my home now for the next year!), repeated yesterday's 'talking in the kitchen' and now here I am, finishing up this blog post and listening to the last two people come in. We came in almost an hour later than yesterday, but starting next week the main events are in a much bigger hall and it's going to be even more fun! So even though I haven't drunken much at all I still had a great time clubbing, even though I'd hardly ever been before now.

SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. Arrivals weekend over and done with. Bring on Freshers!

Speak soon and thanks for reading this huge blog post! :)

Paige x