Snow in London, Sun in Cambridge

I woke up this morning and glanced out the window and suddenly my jaw dropped. SNOW!! I mean, this is London!! They had some freak snow-storm and the city was white, windy and COLD. Bitter coldness - not the nice kind of snow.

The taxi I'd arranged to go to the coach station showed up 35 minutes early. I guess he was scared of driving in the snow? He said London hasn't had snow in the city for 10 years. curious. Anyway, he took me on a round-about route to the station so I got to see the sights again, this time in snow - Leiscter Square, Trafalgar Square, Whitehall, Parliament, Big Ben, Westminster Abby, the London Eye etc. This city looks very cold in the snow.

Got to the station 45 minutes early, which was way too early. And they had all the doors open, so it was freeeeeezing. brrr. The pigeons were hiding inside the station to avoid the snow! I hoped onto my bus at just before 10 and we departed, again driving through the city. It took 45 minutes for us to reach the countryside.

It took 1.5 hours to get to Cambridge and I was a bit worried when I arrived as my check-in is only at 2pm... but I grabbed a cab and came to Selwyn College anyway (the Law college) to see if they'd let me check in and they did. So I've been in my room the past few hours unpacking and starting to feel settled. I got pick up my packages in a few minutes and have class for two hours later this afternoon.

The college is about a 10 minute drive from the heart of Cambridge, so thats probably a good 30 minute walk or so. The next few days are pretty 'chockablock' full with classes, but on Thursday I have a free day, so at the very least I'll make it into town on that day.

I'll update this post later tonight to tell you how classes went!


Update: ugh. oye. groan. sigh.

ya, so, I wont exist when I get home, I will be studying 24/7 for the next 5 weeks. I can't describe it better. Today I had a 2 hour lecture with a senior professor from cambridge who also happens to be a barrister AND a judge. And while she was super friendly, the volume of material we covered in 2 hours, and the amount of times she said "oh I'm sure you're familiar with this" and "obviously you need to mention this on the exam" has frightened me immensly. Do not expect me to exist until June.

After class was dinner. Dinner here is set between 6 and 7 (during the week I'll have class from 7 - 9). Its a 'buffet' but they serve you, and seat you, and 'take care' of you. Kinda feel out of my element. Oh, also, there's been no helpful 'welcome to cambridge' stuff. Bascially I arrived and have been expected to know how everything works, first go.

So I'm a bit shell shocked right now. By rights I should be studying the rest of the night. I don't think I will, but other students will be. Oh, speaking of other students, many have the cliques massively formed already. They must have met at London weekends in the past or something, cuz they are really familiar with each other already. A lot of the cliques have formed due to race/home country/ language spoken lines and I am a definite minority. I sat in class and dinner with a nice girl from Hong Kong tho, so maybe she'll be my 'clique'?

Anyway, back to freaking out....

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