Ahlan bikum! I have done so much in the past 5 days, but internet access has been so slow or nonexistent that I haven’t been able to share them with you! Now that I’m finally settled, I can catch up with all of my posts.  I am writing this post at 10 at night – waaaay too late. I should have been in bed a long time ago. SIT keeps us going all day long, so I need every minute of sleep I can get! But I figured I couldn’t [...]

So I finally got into Fantoft, the student hostel where I’ll be staying. The way they set up the rooms is interesting – private room/bathroom, with communal (7ish people) kitchen. I’ve met two of my hallmates, both from Australia, and a bunch of other people from various floors as well at a pancake dinner, haha. Half of them are leaving in a month anyway (doing a month-long program), but hopefully I’ll meet other people as well. Also of note: On my first day in my new room, I managed to [...]