The First Introduction

I slept alright, but kept waking up every few minutes starting at 6 am. So I decided to simply get up earlier than I planned.

After a long morning, me and Verena walked to the big tree and waited there for Peter and Iman. Iman was late, but whilst waiting for her we met a really nice lady from Tanzania, called Flora. She is 42, but seemed to be more like 36 years old to us. She has a husband and 2 children aged 15 and 9.

When Iman arrived we went to the welcome lecture, which gave us loads of information, but mainly the advices to ask for help, eat well, sleep well and make friends. Then we went to the student services and got our welcome packs which contained even more information, but also a SIMcard! So I don’t have to buy that anymore XD. We almost immediately bought top-up cards and exchanged phone numbers. Then we went to check again if our rooms were ready, which they were (of course) NOT….O.o;

We decided to go to Tesco’s next, so we looked on the internet (at Iman’s place, ‘cause she already has hers with internet connection!) where the nearest Tesco was. It turned out to be 1.9 miles walk, which we thought was not that long, but we were proven wrong by rain and sore feet…. Thus, halfway we decided to take the bus, but had to wait for it for 40 minutes (!) At the bus stop, though, we met Christie who works at a pub in Southampton, she said she’d show us the city later (yeey!). With her help and directions we got off at a bus stop right in front of Sainsbury’s where we did quite some shopping and afterwards (after loads of I-told-you-so’s from Verena) we took a taxi back to campus for only ₤6,40! (Thank god for taxi’s!)

When we got home and put away our shopping’s (it was now almost 8 pm) we checked at the reception again, whether our rooms were ready, but no cigar. Then I went to the food co-op down the road with Peter and Verena and ate a sandwich for dinner with some tea (peter had a kettle).

Then Verena said she wanted to take a shower and I told her that the shower only gave water for like 2 seconds, so she tried and I was right…. She told me that she found fruits in the toilet that morning, she first thought it was poo so it scared the hell out of her, so she showed me and there were like tiny pears in the toilet. The only other person in our hall was a Chinese guy, so we guessed he’d put them there, but we didn’t know him and were afraid to ask.

Then we did the shower experiment: she tried the other shower by turning it on really hard! It did not stop giving water, so the floor got all wet ^-^ and when she wanted to turn it off, the water had gotten so hot that she almost couldn’t turn it off! She did, though, but got really wet as well, I laughed my socks off! XD. Then we showered together (both in a different shower) and went to bed.