Bore-dah! Well folks, I made it to Wales. Our plane arrived in Manchester, England at 7:30am local time on Thursday Jan. 17, the longest day of my life. We then had to go through customs (not a huge deal), claim our luggage (two large suitcases each and a carryon), and then drag our luggage across three terminals to our arranged meeting point. Tecwyn, the program director met us at 10:00 with a bus to take us to campus, but because of flight delays, we didn't leave until noon-ish, arriving in Bangor around 2:00. We barely had time to find our rooms and set down our suitcases before Tecwyn took us on a 'short' walking tour of the town. It is a beautiful place I'm sure when the sun is out and you've slept sometime in the
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