So yeah, everything’s fine so far and that’s all there is to say really ^^ I have no internet in my accommodation but we’re doing our best to sort something out… most practical solution would seem to be buying a key (?) so that we can access the school’s internet ( or I think that’s what it does anyway…). If anyone has any advice about this, that would be awesome. COUGHJohnCOUGH. Unfortunaely we can’t get a router because our accom is actually within the school and apparently it’s not allowed. And there’s no wifi. So yeah, help please would be grand if anyone can suggest anything

France is HOT. I know I’m on the mediterranean and everything but I really didn’t expect it to be quite so summery here in October! It’s great, I’m getting a tan already! The town I’m living in is very nice, though a bit quiet and there’s not much to do in the evenings (though there is an Irish pub!). I think we just need to explore a bit to find out that kind of thing. During the day it’s very nice here, there are plenty of shops with everything you might need – although it turns out the French really don’t like to work that much. Absolutely everywhere (apart from cafes etc) close for lunch between 12:30 and 2pm, and on a Sunday nothing is open at all apart from, again, eateries. But the people at the eateries seem to like to make it very clear that they do not want to be there, and can be quite rude. That’s the French I suppose!

I haven’t started teaching yet, and don’t really know yet anything to do with my timetable etc. I have about a week of observation and then I think I begin classes sometime next week or the week after. And then a few days after that it’ll be half term – whey!

So, I should pop off now. Hope everyone is having a great time doing what they’re doing :] A bientot!

So, kids…please look where you are going VERY carefully. Cars hurt.

How to follow such news? Firstly well done to Robyn for passing her test! Secondly, I am back at home for the weekend (lucky considering the circumstances) and it feels like I’ve never left I dyed my hair again today which is a bit of a purply shade of brown that I’m not sure I like too much…maybe it will grow on me.

The bestest bit about Uni at the moment is my dancing its so fantastically amazing, and I am loving it, I feel like I am getting so much better very quickly, because the lessons are much  more intensive. I was supposed to be going to a big band social with my dance class next saturday but I’m not sure my legs will be in a fit enough state by then. I am hobbling around at the moment, so cant really imagine summoning any kind of grace, especially in heels

Right, time to return my attention to Strictly Come Dancing. Lots of love to everyone, and I will try to blog sooner this time.

Just your average street there, one of the less crowded more ‘back’ streets.

Famousness, alone with Trinity College and whatnot. I don’t have any specific photos of them yet though, however, if this is really the ‘Master’s Lodge’ of St. John’s College then I really wish I was going there!

And of course wherever you go in Cambridge there’s someone trying to sell you a punting trip on the river.

So, there’s a very brief glimpse at some of Cambridge. I managed to find my way back home eventually for some dinner and helping teach my corridor-mate some English. Then after dinner I met up with my two corridor mates in the kitchen randomly (it was random) for a really long chat. We talked about everything you could imagine, from the state of affairs in Europe to the intricacies of the English knock-knock jokes. Neither of them knew the correct protocol for such jokes, and I don’t think they found it terribly amusing even when they understood them. Europeans need to develop a sense of humour. Well, I’m not being entirely fair there, but mneh :happy:

And so this morning I woke up feeling really good and positive for some reason. There was a real buzz as loads of new people were moving in and during the early afternoon two more ladies moved in on our corridor, so we all decided to meet up and go to explore Cambridge together (which is when I took the aforeviewable photographs). Good fun! We returned home and ate a communal meal of pasta and pizza, which was very sociable, playing ice-breaking games (like Armadillo) whilst the food cooked.

That brings me up to this evening. Myself and the two newly arrived ladies decided to go and try the “Scrabble Party”, the first of the Fresher’s Fortnight events. Eveyone got a letter when entering and the idea was to find other people with letters and gang together to make up words that were on a list. If you made a word you got a prize I was the Y in ‘party’ (I’m always the ‘whhhyyy’ at a party). But soon enough the evening degenerated into your average club-dance-rave-fest. However there were some very amusing characters there. There was a chap there (shorter than myself [is this possible I hear you scream]) who obviously thought he was from the 60s. The typical geeky type with glasses who got really serious and into it all. Weirdness. I met a few really nice new people there though and saw a few familiar faces too.

This brings me on to my next predicament. To I tell my corridor-mates that I’m blogging about our doings on the internet? Or is it not pat of the need-to-know basis. It’s not like I’m mentioning names of people, but if (for example) that chap from the party tonight found this blog, he’d probably now that it was him I was talking about. But then what’s the likelihood of him ever finding it? I shall tell people at the next opportunity I think, best to be open about one’s geekiness after all.

Anyway, I came back from the party a fair bit earlier than most people because I was deafened and getting a bit bored of wiggling myself in an ungainly fashion. So here I am and here I blog. Good luck to those of you who moved in to uni today / are doing so very soon. It’s really not that bad after all! Now there are loads of people around there is a real atmosphere and buzz. Still two more people to arrive to fill our corridor. 02:28. Sleeping time, goodnight everyone.

EDIT: Advice! Don’t arrive the day before your course starts, it looks like loads of people have here and I have no doubt they’re all going to be in a mad rush for registering and enrolling and whatnot. I know some of you do all that online, but I’m still really glad I turned up early to avoid all the hassle and panic and rush.