Apparently this is the most photographed statue in the world. It is said that when this dog's owner died he laid by his grave until he too, died. Quite a cool story if you ask me. Anyway, I started this day late yet again, 1pm, bleh. Hopefully tomorrow will jolt me out of this sleep because I am waking up around 9am to go to orientation. This will be the first day I will actually see the campus. Should be pretty fun. Hopefully I will get a phone and some other necessities afterwards as well. Or even better, my suitcase.
Today was a lot of fun though, started out by meeting up with Jacob, Dave, Amy, and Jaime for a late lunch around 3ish. We walked to a different part of town, took in some sights and ended up at a pizzaria. Delicious, but expensive, but damn what isn't expensive here? I really feel like everything is the exact same price if it were in american dollars, but it's 1.7x american dollars! I'm going to go broke very fast at this rate... We were probably talking for a good 3 hours inside the pizzaria, everyone had some good flowing conversation. It was great. After that we headed to the Elephant House, where J.K. Rowling sat down and wrote Harry Potter. I guess I touched the chair she was in? Possibly, who knows. She based Hogwarts off a university in Scotland, which you could plainly see outside the window. Pretty interesting stuff if you ask me.
We then headed back, but ended up talking in the street for an hour or two. Then it was off to the Tavern to meet up with some more people. The New England game was on, watched the end of that. Green Bay came on and I was excited, until they went down 14-0. We all left after that with a group of 13 now. Off to Benny and Dave's from some more articulate. It was a ton of fun and my team ended up coming out on top ;). Afterwards we played a game called visual telephone, essentially the game of telephone except everyone starts with a phrase, passes the card to the next person and they draw it, then the next person writes what they think it is, and so on. It got absolutely hilarious. We were all dying of laughter at the end when we went through the progression of the cards. Definitely a new favorite game.
Anyway, great day - heading off to bed early tonight.
Hopefully a productive day lies in store tomorrow.
Yeah bro I've played that visual telephone game when I went to a training in Colorado and it is an outrageous game!
ReplyDeleteEnough of your trying to always be productive bro- meeting people and learning the culture is important and I think its your job right now before the studies start calling to you!