First impressions. First thing I saw from the cab was a day care called Jigsaw. Am I the only one thinking of the Saw movies?? Charming. I was out walking in the area and found a café with big signs saying "Swedish icecream, the best!" "Knäckebröd" (typical crisp bread) and "Cinnamon buns", another good sign, they like the Swedes!
My flat is perfectly located by the meadows with a 10 min walk to the busstation (to get to uni), 15-20 min to the city center and everything I need is within 5 min. My roomies are amazing, super sweet girls, English and Scottish. Only thing is, it's freezing! Isolation is not their strongest skill here. It almost killed me first but now I know how to handle it. Didn't like my room at first, so the first day I did what I always do when I move to a new place (both Barca & Boston), sit and read at Starbucks. (Please dont judge me) Their strategy of the 3rd place totally worked on me. But now that I've "decorated" I like my room again and brew my own coffee..
Pre-kickoff mingle. There was a get together arranged on sunday, before "freshers week". Happy enough to find the bar and find about 30 people, when I was expecting more than 100. Didn't care about that but started to mingle with everyone I saw. Barely found any from the internationalgroup of Napier but it didn't bother me. I had fun, met loads of great people and was doing Jägerbombs with the am. football team (Mandy would have loved it). The guys I was talking to asked me:
- Do you always go in to a bar where you don't know anyone and start to talk to ppl?
- Noo, it's just that my group's supposed to be here, but I cant find them....
So after 2 h of chating... I see a girl from my Swedish uni. Then she tells me that all the people are upstairs!! I was on the wrong floor!! Well well I had fun and got to see some people from my group for 1 hour at least...
Cocktail night. Nothing special was planned on monday so I went out with my roomies instead. They where having a cocktail party here and found my Harvard mixology skills veeery useful ;) So we had drinks with their lovely girl friends, went to a club where everyone was wasted, on a monday! Gotta get used to this, great fun!
Pubcrawl and stair falling. Tuesday I went pub crawling with the internationals. Went to different pubs between 6-12pm. Very intense! After visiting 2 pubs (NO I wasn't drunk), I was walking with a minor group of people. It was so slippery outside and I'm talking to one person and when we come to these stone stairs, I slipped and fell down, making a huge scene! Extreemely embarrassed, I rise up immediately trying to "save" the situation. Everyone was so sweet, trying to see if I was ok, I didn't care, just wanted to die. But I mean, now they'll never forget me?
Anyways, the night ended at a nightclub where we partied untill 3am. Everyone was wearing these horrible orange sweaters, looking like a big group of kids stumbling around in the city, but I hear neon orange is the new black?
The Swede & The German
Yesterday I visited more pubs. Just wanted to take it easy but no, it ended at 3 am as well. At least today I'm in my bed, telling you about my mad nights... Tomorrow is another party so I promise to update you about more gossip and stories.
Untill then, Cheers.
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