I made it!

Well, this is my first post from abroad and if day one was any indication it will be a crazy month. Last night I wrote a bunch of stuff down that I'll put on later (i neglected to bring it with me right now)...but today was the first day of class, beginning with Political Economy of Great Britain. ok...i'm going to give up using capital letters because the left shift key is in a slightly different place on this keyboard so i end up hitting ` everytime i try to capitalize something. anyway, the political economy course seems like it will be really interesting...the professor is cool, and the materials look like they'll be good resources to use. i must admit, however, that the "suggested reading material" for both courses seemed a bit daunting at first. for the first class, for instance, there was a list of like 10 books we supposedly need to read. good thing that both the teachers said they'd go mostly off the lectures and such for the final exams. it's nice because that's all we have, so there's nothing to worry about until then. everyone i've talked to said the courses will be really easy, so that's why it was a bit of a shock to be given this huge packet of information (that was in the second class, international economics). i'm not much of an econ person, and i really don't feel like my two previous courses in econ taught me anything, so international econ will be interesting. the teacher also likes to pick out certain students to randomly ask questions to, so you've got to stay on your guard the whole time. i went through today without being called on. w00t! then we moved on to lunch, which was steak and mushroom pie (think pot pie) that was pretty good. all the meals here are 3 courses, it seems (except for breakfast, of course), and whenever i eat in the dining room i feel like i'm in harry potter or something. we also went in the chapel--an anglican one--and it was really neat on the inside. i wonder how old the buildings here are ... i'll have to find out. i promise i'll take some photos here soon and let you all see what it's like...i think i'll be able to get my pics on here from the camera. and, in my next post, i'll tell you what i did on day one. tonight i'm going to a shakespeare on the green-like performance, but it just started sprinkling so who knows. i think there is a croquet tournament for us as well, so wish me luck :-) anyway, that's it for now...let me go see what kind of trouble i can get into! take care, all!

grant