London Adventures
The First Official Long Richmond Post!
Like I promised, here's a long entry...
With tons of pictures!!
Here are the highlights of my experience so far:
1. The flight was ok, a bit too much turbulence, but not too many kids! (Actually, all I could hear in my head was the sweet sound of my own thoughts, so I didn't notice any screams, shouts, whines, etc.)
2. Once I arrived in London, I was super thrilled and excited! A cab picked me and an Italian guy from the airport, and we drove straight to Richmond.
3. The campus is beautiful! So is the neighborhood and everything else! (See pics)
4. Ok, I'm just gonna go with the photos for now - I'll write captions next to the pics so that you know what they are. I'll post more photos soon... I hope... I've already taken about 250 shots, so there's plenty to pick from. But here's a start: (no particular order... in order of uploading)
1. Thu, Aug 31: The great quiz night. All freshmen go to a pub in Richmond town and split in teams of six. We then have to answer trivia questions from different categories. Our team, called JAMPAK-ERS (J=John, A=Alison, M=Me, P=Pauli, A=Arun, K=Kat), miraculously won first place!!! We now have 6 tickets to the Odeon cinema plus 6 vouchers, £5 each, to buy popcorn and food with! :)
2. Left to write: Pauli (my roommate, an ACS alumnus, yay!), John (the only alcoholic at our table;), from Jersey), and Arun (from the UK, but his parents are from India).
3. A pretty flowery-ornament thingy dedicated to animals. It's on a roundabout in Richmond town.
4. Me...
5. Rolls Royce up close.
6. A beautiful view of the Thames from Richmond Hill.
7. Left to right: Alison, Pauli, and Arun in the Marquee (big white tent where we have our free meals during orientation)
8. Richmond's main building and our main 'shruberry.'
9. A sunlit glimpse of the library building; the red wall to the right is part of our house, Red House.
10. An impressive tree to the left of our house (and the Marquee).
11. The East Wing of the Main Building (or the west one.. don't trust me with directions;), plus a little part of the library to the right.
12. Main Building behind the branches of a huuuge pine-like tree.. cypress (spelling...?) maybe.
13. The huge tree again (we actually have two of those right in front of the Main Building) and the Marquee.
14. Yet another view of the Main Building (the path leads directly to our cute lil' house).
15. Left: Presumably East Wing again... Right: Library... Rightest and top: another tree (I love them all..)
16. The squishy fish and I. Horse poster in the background. Wet hair. Snoopy pj's.
17. The funny one is Kat(aleen). She's from Washington state. The guy to her left is a new professor here, Michael Keating. He's born in the UK, but has lived in Australia for a really long time.
18. 'I'm a Barbie girl in a Richmond wooorld' - that girl in the middle totally goes beyond my wildest fashion dreams :)
19. Pauli and our desks in our room.
20. A view from the airplane (somewhere over Germany, I think).
21. Finally, our little house! It's really pretty and lovely.
22. The Main Building again.
23. Who's that? George Washington! And Orchard House in the background.
24. My bed with the Sheep sheets :) (that's from before I put up the horse poster and a couple of smaller horsy pics)
Yaaay! So those are some of the pics for now.. more will come later. We're going on a trip to London tonight :D
Oh, I registered for classes today and am going to take Photography, Intercultural Communications, Priciples of Writing II, and Cycling the Square and Stamping Authority (two art courses focusing on art practice).
Bad news: I do have internet access on my laptop now, but still no messenger access... When I figure that out, I'll start being online again! :D See you all!
With tons of pictures!!
Here are the highlights of my experience so far:
1. The flight was ok, a bit too much turbulence, but not too many kids! (Actually, all I could hear in my head was the sweet sound of my own thoughts, so I didn't notice any screams, shouts, whines, etc.)
2. Once I arrived in London, I was super thrilled and excited! A cab picked me and an Italian guy from the airport, and we drove straight to Richmond.
3. The campus is beautiful! So is the neighborhood and everything else! (See pics)
4. Ok, I'm just gonna go with the photos for now - I'll write captions next to the pics so that you know what they are. I'll post more photos soon... I hope... I've already taken about 250 shots, so there's plenty to pick from. But here's a start: (no particular order... in order of uploading)
1. Thu, Aug 31: The great quiz night. All freshmen go to a pub in Richmond town and split in teams of six. We then have to answer trivia questions from different categories. Our team, called JAMPAK-ERS (J=John, A=Alison, M=Me, P=Pauli, A=Arun, K=Kat), miraculously won first place!!! We now have 6 tickets to the Odeon cinema plus 6 vouchers, £5 each, to buy popcorn and food with! :)
2. Left to write: Pauli (my roommate, an ACS alumnus, yay!), John (the only alcoholic at our table;), from Jersey), and Arun (from the UK, but his parents are from India).
3. A pretty flowery-ornament thingy dedicated to animals. It's on a roundabout in Richmond town.
4. Me...
5. Rolls Royce up close.
6. A beautiful view of the Thames from Richmond Hill.
7. Left to right: Alison, Pauli, and Arun in the Marquee (big white tent where we have our free meals during orientation)
8. Richmond's main building and our main 'shruberry.'
9. A sunlit glimpse of the library building; the red wall to the right is part of our house, Red House.
10. An impressive tree to the left of our house (and the Marquee).
11. The East Wing of the Main Building (or the west one.. don't trust me with directions;), plus a little part of the library to the right.
12. Main Building behind the branches of a huuuge pine-like tree.. cypress (spelling...?) maybe.
13. The huge tree again (we actually have two of those right in front of the Main Building) and the Marquee.
14. Yet another view of the Main Building (the path leads directly to our cute lil' house).
15. Left: Presumably East Wing again... Right: Library... Rightest and top: another tree (I love them all..)
16. The squishy fish and I. Horse poster in the background. Wet hair. Snoopy pj's.
17. The funny one is Kat(aleen). She's from Washington state. The guy to her left is a new professor here, Michael Keating. He's born in the UK, but has lived in Australia for a really long time.
18. 'I'm a Barbie girl in a Richmond wooorld' - that girl in the middle totally goes beyond my wildest fashion dreams :)
19. Pauli and our desks in our room.
20. A view from the airplane (somewhere over Germany, I think).
21. Finally, our little house! It's really pretty and lovely.
22. The Main Building again.
23. Who's that? George Washington! And Orchard House in the background.
24. My bed with the Sheep sheets :) (that's from before I put up the horse poster and a couple of smaller horsy pics)
Yaaay! So those are some of the pics for now.. more will come later. We're going on a trip to London tonight :D
Oh, I registered for classes today and am going to take Photography, Intercultural Communications, Priciples of Writing II, and Cycling the Square and Stamping Authority (two art courses focusing on art practice).
Bad news: I do have internet access on my laptop now, but still no messenger access... When I figure that out, I'll start being online again! :D See you all!
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