Blogs from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 18

On the agenda for today: -attend Nottingham: Making of a Provincial City report: an interesting class, although the students are basically going to teach the entire class which is normal, I guess, except that the prof isn't going to lecture on anything, which is quite odd. We do however get to take a walking tour of the buildings in Nottingham with the prof who was originally scheduled to teach the class. -ultimate frisbee practice indoors report: this was my first indoor frisbee practice ever which was really cool and interesting. The game is pretty much the same with a few minor adjustments--the stall count is decreased from 10 to 8 seconds and there are only 5 players per team on the court at one time rather than 7 in outdoor ultimate. Overall it's pretty fun and ... read more

Today didn't see very many exciting or noteworthy topics of discussion. I headed off to class for 12 hoping to be done before 1 but ended up having a full 2 hour introductory lecture. It was at least beneficial and interesting....I need to sit in teh front from now on because the lecturer is hard to hear in the middle much less the back. It could also be because the room we were in is split in two with us using only one half. It's weird. We picked seminar groups and I really like the topic of ours so that's a plus. I think there may be one or two other exchange students in that class but not many at all--mostly Brits, which is awesome! After class I met up with Jana and we went to ... read more

Sunday....what a bum around day. I went down to Nottingham city centre with Ruth, Jana, and Alex. It was a pretty good trip. I really like hanging out with Jana and Ruth. They're really down to earth and fun to be around. Plus Jana has been my dance partner had the clubs which I totally appreciate. In the city centre we were on the lookout for a few things: I needed to get a mobile phone so that I can communicate with everyone and Ruth needed a wok and a white t-shirt plus supplies for her architecture class on Monday. Alex was meeting two of her friends, James and Tim, for lunch. However it ended up that all of us went to lunch at Dogma but we weren't really introduced to the guys, which was slightly ... read more

So this morning was pretty mellow, until someone was cooking in one of the downstairs flats and set the fire alarm off.....for 15 minutes!!! Granted we are the last flat in a back corner and it takes a few minutes for people from reception to get to us and shut it off. Silly boys....they left their kitchen door open while they were cooking. Our smoke detectors are in the middle of the flat (in the hallway) so if you shut the kitchen door then the fire alarm shouldn't go off. Although apparently some people smoke cigarettes in their room, which they're not supposed to, and that also sets the fire alarm off. It's so irritating! Plus smoking in your room is absolutely disgusting....you smell like cigarettes all the time. Yuck! So there it is....the morning of ... read more

Since I absolutely must do laundry, mainly because visiting clubs and pubs and such are all smokey that my clothes smell absolutely disgusting, I am in the process of completing this task. And in scoping out the laundry situation, which is pretty cool since it's out the door and 2 steps to the left, the cost of laundry is amazing. At Santa Cruz laundry is $1.25 to wash and $.75 to dry. Well, here it's 1.60 quid and 60p, respectively. So double it and that's what it would be in the US, approximately. Ahh! Well since I don't really have a choice....laundry it is. The cool thing though is that it's the exact same machines as at SC which makes it a lot easier to understand. Beyond the whole laundry issue, I went over to Rutland ... read more