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On 19 January I finally made it to Wales! It rained all day, and during the bus ride to Bangor the rain turned into lots of snow flurries, which was amazing to watch, since I could also see the ocean (I never think of it snowing on the beach!)!

It turns out that I'm living in an international hall. My flatmates include David (from Germany), Sonia (from Spain), Simona (from Italy), Freddy (Ecuadorian from Chicago), Katrin (from Austria), Emma (from Oxford), and Georgina (from Manchester). We've all become friends, and helped each other with class schedules, finding out where to get our ID cards, and translating various words into English.

Polina, Katrin, Isabel, Hillary, Sonia

The first few days of the first week I spent in boring and slightly nerve-wracking orientation meetings and registration meetings. Instead of everything being digital, like at SU, we had to go to each school department individually and get a lecturer to sign their initials next to modules (classes) we wanted to take. Assuming everything goes according to plan, I will be taking:
Arthurian Literature
Intro to Medieval Studies: Heroes and Villains!
Practical Music Technology and
History of Punk Rock.
Classes start tomorrow and I'm pretty excited.
I'll be taking the English lit modules in the Main Arts hall, which they call the Hogwarts Building, as it looks like a clearer version of this:

Main Arts "Hogwarts" Building

Bangor is pretty small, and at first was quite cold and rainy, but it's been really nice crisp weather for the past two days, so we decided to walk to see some of the sights of Bangor. Apparently Bangor hosts the second largest Victorian pier in the U.K. and it is beautiful.

victorian pier

tea room on the pier

view of Wales from Pier

We also tried going to a nearby castle, which is apparently a fake castle that was built by an American, but when we got there it was closed!

fake castle

Tonight Georgina is cooking us a traditional English dinner called a Hot Pot, which is like stew with a pastry top on it. It smells really good!
Hwyl (Cheers)!

written by

outlawedwings on January 25, 2009 from Bangor, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: triple_strung_heart

tagged Rain, Castle, Travel, Pier and Bangor

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Woo!! You are in Wales! :) I want to see that pier!! Just FYI...I will be coming over to see you at some point....and we will have to have a cup of tea in the Victorian tea room....it is a must! Miss you! I'm glad you are having a good time though!

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lesieur_h on January 25, 2009

Okay, so the picture of you grinning next to the ocean...?

I want that boat.

Also there's Welsh everywhere!!!

written by

lost_red_balloon on January 26, 2009

tea house on the pier? SO CUTE.

you should identify the people in pictures you post so i have faces to go along with the names you talk about.

also, i made a blog and put a link to yours on it!

http://jollyoctopus.wordpress.com
http://daslebenusw.wordpress.com

you should add it to your google reader or something!

HEART!
tommy

written by tommy on January 26, 2009

I remember our office Interns when I red this post. In our team we have 5 interns from different countries.

written by sugitha on January 27, 2009

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