deep breath....

i keep telling myself that, to just take deep breaths...

i can not even begin to describe how ludacrious the system for registering, finding classes, class schedules and the entire organizational system is here. it makes no sense, and its impossible to figure out. i thought that i would thoroughly enjoy today, being that i am no longer disconnected from the meager world of UEA, but instead my mind if flying at 1000 miles per minute and i don't even know where to begin tackling frustration and all that i need to do today. include eat. that may be my current problem... anyways, i will try to write this with as little subjectivity as possible, to be fair to UEA and my experiences thus far.

oh, but it would have been nice to have been told by the school of psychology that i was actually supposed to reguster on friday, as opposed to today and showing up and them saying ''why weren't you here on friday?'' and it would have been nice to have been told that i had a class this morning at 10:00, instead of walking into the art building at 9:55 simply to enquire about the class as opposed to having to walk over to the seminar room completely unprepared to have a class and being overwhelmed by the professor and his architectural lingo.

no more ranting, im sorry, all.

so....this weekend was entirely uneventful, had very little to do both saturday and sunday, and ended up reading most of the afternoons, which was quite nice. met some more americans (large group from dickenson and the UCs), and all of my flatmates arrived. went on a Norwich city bus tour which gave me some better bearings as far as where things were in relationship to one another in the city, etc. would have loved to have been able to use the athletic facilities, but alas! i couldnt because i dont have my campus card, which i couldnt turn the paperwork in for until today because i had to get my registration information first, but i'll be getting the card in 3 days so then i can actually go to the gym (why they don't have students register AND get the cards on the FIRST day is beyond me... crazy, illogical Brits...)

so, classes ...
i have 3 classes - 2 psych classes (lecture + seminar) and one architecture class about the english country house. i have classes on monday and thursday only, 2 hours for each. oh, and i dont have any exams, just papers and presentations. i suppose i'll spend my tuesdays and wednesdays working on school stuff and hopefully i'll be making little weekend or day trips around the UK and neighboring countries.

i hope my day gets brighter and takes an uphill spin, and im sure it will...

last bit - experienced my first english rain today, and i would be wearing flip flops (we've had nice weather the past few days, so i figured i could continue the trend, but i have been mistaken)