Admin

I managed to get in touch with my cousin's friend Goose this morning and she messaged me back to tell me to meet her at the bank on campus as she was with a group of girls who were all doing the same thing. I arrived just as they were sitting down for their appointment and she pulled up a chair for me so I could do it with them. It was relatively easy to sort out getting a student account and he told us our card would arrive in the post in a few days.

After that, we went to go and get my student ID card sorted out... my picture is HORRENDOUS because I didn't really realise that I was having my picture taken when she told me to sit down on the little seat (I genuinely thought she was just asking me to have a seat whilst I waited) and then suddenly she was telling me to smile and Goose yelled "DON'T LAUGH!"and the result was this....

Haha! I could have killed her...

She is lovely though, thanks to Belle for getting us in touch! She's sorted me out and got me organised which I badly needed as I kinda felt I was just wondering around, not really achieving anything. One issue though, Goose doesn't do lifts, which means any time we go up to her or my room (6 or 7 floors!), we have to take the stairs...

We busied ourselves all day with all our admin tasks and then someone mentioned that there was free food for residents of The Village (the accommodation where Goose and the others live) in their common area, so I snuck in with them to their 'club house' type-thing and we sat down to some (questionable) curry. After that, one of Goose's friends, Ailsa, invited us all over to her flat for a few drinks with her Aussie flatmates. Chris, one of the Aussies, then took the opportunity to take us to our first 'Bottle-o'.

For those of you who don't know what a Bottle-o is, it's basically like a glorified off-licence, as Australian's don't sell booze in normal supermarkets. Most people invested in some 'Goon', which is 4 litres of wine for $5 or something ridiculous, which seems like a total bargain, until you wake up the next morning... Goose and I opted for gin and tonic though, we'll try Goon another day...!

I'm about to skype home and then I'm off to meet the others in Ailsa's flat, so had better go.

B