To Norwich!

Day 3: January 12th

So, from my orientation agenda I see that today we had our final orientation in London in the wee morn. We then went back to Harlingford Hotel and checked out and waited for our transportation to arrive.

The Kent crew got a swanky coach that would take them directly to Kent, East Anglia had to take a taxi to Liverpool Street Station then catch the train to Norwich where we would then take another taxi to campus. It was a hoot and a half dealing with the luggage in such a consecutive manner.

On the train to Norwich.

It was raining when we got to UEA. We got our accommodation info and keys. A handful of us had rotten luck and got stuck with Mary Chapman Court.

It is located in the city and Mary Chapman people need to buy a bus pass that hurts the wallet oh so bad.

Phillip, Kelsey and I were those unlucky people.

We had dinner on campus with all the other exchange/visiting students then a taxi took us to Mary Chapman Prison.

Kelsey lives a floor above me and Phillip is in my flat.

Dude, I'm writing this from the future and I still hate this place. It's ugly, lonely and inconvenient.

Anyway, we go in and meet our flatmates that are already there. So there are five people in total living in the flat, we each have our own rooms but share two toilets, a shower and a kitchen.

I go to my room to unpack stuff when the power goes out.

Of course.

You know when the power goes out normal people try to get the power back on or at least figure out what happened. My flatmates? Nope. They're like "oh no..." then went back into their rooms. So Phillip and I go all Sherlock Holmes on everyone's ass and solve the mystery (not really, we went upstairs to Kelsey to complain and then messed with two power box things until ta-da, light appeared).

We were hailed heroes and given the key to the city.

It was a lovely first night in Norwich.