So, I'm writing my first blog post from Birmingham, England, the United Kingdom, Europe (I know, I know - Brexit, but that doesn't mean we aren't part of the continent), The World, The Milky Way, yada yada yada...
ANYWAY, story time my little fluffy friends.
MOVING IN DAY - 03/09/16
First of, this is before we even set off for Birmingham - we were packing the car up with all my shit and mum suddenly realised she couldn't find the base to my kettle, and since I was the one to unpack it the first time round, I was the one that all the questions were aimed at (picture my mum, grandma and myself getting increasingly confused and a little annoyed). We then decided that if we couldn't find the base, I'd just buy a new one. My grandma decided that she was going to look inside the kettle for some reason and guess what she found - you guessed it - the kettle base. We were extremely relieved.
Looking back at that makes it seem like it wasn't that big of a deal but at the time it was huge, and I wish that was the biggest problem we came across that day....
So, we finally got on the road (with Iman (coincidently she made me promise that this post was dedicated to her so I dedicate this post to the bestest westest, most supportive BFF ever)) and that was pretty much all the drama until we got to my accommodation - apart from the usual traffic.
2:00pm - stuck in a huge amount of traffic, I call to say we'll be there for 3pm instead of 2:30pm.
3:00pm - arrive at accommodation, get keys
3:10pm - get to room to have a look, wrinkle nose and gag, THE ROOM HAD NOT BEEN CLEANED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3:20pm - cleaning crew starts cleaning
4:00pm - start to unload bags, walk into hallway, get high off bleach fumes and hear serious scrubbing
4:10pm - get back in car and wait
4:30pm - go back to check on bags that are still in the hallway and get high off bleach fumes for the 2nd time, still hear furious scrubbing, sit down by bags
5:00pm - still sitting by bags, have an ongoing high off bleach fumes, and boredom, stiffness and hunger start setting in
5:30pm - hear banging, cleaners come out of room, help us take my stuff into the room
5:45pm - start unpacking, realise the A/C doesn't work, the blind doesn't retract and the built in desk lamp needs an adaptor, log all maintenance and book slot for Monday to get it sorted
8:00pm - stop to order pizza, continue unpacking
8:45pm - pizza arrives
9:45pm - we've eaten and are resting
10:00pm - Iman leaves, continue to unpack
10:30pm - finished unpacking, mum and I fight over which side of the 3/4 size bed we're sleeping on
11:30pm - we finally get to sleep
SUNDAY - 04/09/16
8:30am - wake up, get ready, still slightly high off bleach fumes
10:00am - get breakfast/brunch at Costa across the road with Iman
12:30pm - sorting and organising things back in my room
2:30pm - mum and Iman drop me off to meet new people and head back to London
7:00pm - sit in pub waiting for pub quiz to start
9:30pm - our team comes in 3rd (shout out to Cheeky V and the poor, poor Team Artisan)
10:00pm - arrive back in my room
11:00pm - decide to make grilled cheese because I was hungry, inadvertently wake mum up because I couldn't figure out how to use the hob
11:15pm - figure out how to use the hob, eat
1:30am - fall asleep
MONDAY - 05/09/16
8:00am - wake up, figure out how to use the shower, took too long
9:45am - make cup of tea and down it like I'm in a beer chugging contest, burn tongue
10:00am - wait for Uber, taxi driver doesn't know where he's going (???)
10:20am - get to UCB (5 minutes late for enrolment), run up four floors of stairs
10:28am (I'm a slow runner, OKAY?) - arrive out of breath into a crowded lecture room and apologise profusely
10:45am - filled in a form and back down the stairs for my ID
11:15am - walking around town and sitting down in Costa with a few new friends
1:00pm - back at my room and started to read
4:00pm - realise that maintenance haven't showed up (slot booked for 12-4)
5:30pm - still sitting on my bed reading, getting hungry, talked with Iman
6:30pm - wondering whether to have dinner, talking to mum
7:00pm - make pesto pasta with chicken (be proud - it's the best I've made in a long time)
7:30pm - eat, go back to reading
11:30pm - go to sleep
TODAY - 06/09/16
9:30am - wake up, realise it's my grandma's birthday
10:00am - talk to mum
10:45am - eat, drink tea slowly, read, a guy comes in to check my A/C says it should be running by tomorrow (my room is 24.7 degrees C, apparently)
11:45am - talk to reception about maintenance
12:00pm - maintenance sorts out my blind and desk lamp
12:30pm - start reading
1:00pm - decide to change scenery, find social space, realise I'm the only one using social space
1:10pm - make some phone calls
1:20pm - start writing blog post
1:50pm NOW - still writing blog post
And there you have it llamas, that was basically everything that has happened over the last few days. BTW, THE DUDE BEFORE ME WAS DISGUSTING. I felt for those cleaners. Like, felt. Just thinking about the state of my room makes me cringe, gag and try not to hurl. BLEUGH. It was a good solid couple of hours that the cleaners spent doing my room, I don't even want to know what that dude was doing. Oh, and did I mention that he also left a bunch of stuff in the mailbox that I had to clean out?
Other than all this shit, I'm pretty excited to be here, although I'm kinda bored out of my mind because my uni starts earlier than others and I'm not staying in the same place as the other students, I'm staying with students from other unis. Who haven't even arrived. There's just a bunch of international students that don't really socialise and barely speak English so I'm probably better off in my own company at the moment.
Here's a little something to show how I feel.
Shenaya xx
P.S. 2:20pm - finished writing blog post, going to eat lunch
P.P.S. we also discovered that I have no phone service in my room and if you want to get in touch with me it has to be done through the Internet..
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