Posted by Ashley on September 30th, 2003
Tomorrow is October and I feel as if I’ll be inundated with chilly winds from what everyone is saying. Bryce and I seem to be doing very well in the weather adjustment department and we’re usually prepared when a few raindrops decide to fall out of the sky.
I’ve experienced my first matriculation which is just a big word for quequeing all day (i.e., let’s see if we can stand in a line for 4 hours and be happy to go to school). It was quite fun to wait while it began to rain and the staff went on an hour and a half lunch break. Ah well; my fees are all paid, I’ve got my card and now am an official student once again. I have meetings a bit this week and classes officially begin next week. I’ll have The Literary Industry for my option course and the required lecture core course Writing the Nation both once a week for 2 hours each. I also get to take a Research Methods course, which is how to write a bibliography (you’d think you’d be exempted from that after actually applying with a writing sample which necessarily had a bibliography).
Right now, I’m madly trying to read a book I must return at 10:30 tomorrow morning and my head has been knotted into a loop. Bryce is studying Greek and after trying to quiz him on his flash cards, I realize the truth of “it’s Greek to me.” He’s taxed by his 9-2 schedule of classes and then studying lots and lots and lots. He’ll write more later, I’m sure.
We have acclimated regarding food as well–Bryce enjoys a Tennents (Scottish beer) now and then and we’re both way into a pot of tea a day with McVitie’s chocolate/caramel digestive biscuits. And we eat lots of Indian food.
Well, we miss all of you back home and hope you’ll email, call or write often!