I'm Here!

Hiiii, sorry it took so long to hear from me.

Its 16:38 here so 21:38 at home. Yesterday's flight went well, nothing much to it. Watched Super 8 and a few How I Met Your Mother-s with some sleep in between. Sabrina and I were across the aisle from this really strange little boy who kept asking Charlie maths questions... - Plane was half an hour late because we were flying into the wind all the way and we ended up getting there about midday. Got our luggage fine and they managed to get us on an earlier Airbus so we got to Brock an hour earlier too :)

When we got to Brock the driver decided to dump us miles away from our residence so the stewards had to call over a golf buggy for all our stuff  LOL! By the way the campus is HUGE, there's about 18,000 students here. My halls are really nice, I've got a good size room, comfy bed, big wardrobe and desk. We're in courts which are made up of about 15 townhouses with a little green in the middle, the house has four storeys ; the bottom floor is the kitchen/living area; ground floor is the entrance room, Hope's room, a toilet and a storage room; the First floor has the main bathroom with shower and toilet, Nichole's room is just across the hall from that; then the top floor has my room and Ashley and Justine's room which they share:

Justine (left), Ashley (right) in their room

 My housemates are really nice! Hope is also a 'don' for residences but I'm still not entirely sure what that means ... and they're all Canadian and not from Glasgow! Soon after I was all moved in we went to the 'Kick Off' which was basically a rally getting everyone really excited for O-Week, we were introduced to the Events Team and they were throwing out free T-shirts - i caught one :) - then they displayed a 'Live Burn' where the St. Catharines fire department showed us how quickly a dorm room can burn down in a fire... the Justin Bieber poster took forever to catch and everyone was chanting 'burn bieber, burn!' hahaaa

We went back to the house to get ready for the Tower Party which was the main even for the evening, we first met some people in court 9 and I won my first ever game of beer pong yay me :) On the way back Ashley got caught with having open alcohol which we're not supposed to have and got written up on the first night, they're quite strict on rules like that but they say if they don't know about it then it's fine. I decided to call it a night then because at that time I had been up for 24 hours and was shattered!

Today was good too, I woke up about 8, tried out the shower for the first time... it's not great, just not very powerful. The plan of the day was to go grocery shopping in the afternoon. Before that though Justine, Ashley and I headed over to the vendor fair (which is the same as the freshers fair at Keele) there was just loads of stands where you can get free stuff and win free stuff which was pretty good. We went for a stroll round campus, found the campus store, got a drink from Tim Horton's which apparently is a really big thing for Canadians, there's tons of mini kiosk all over Brock.

Around 1 we got a 10 minute bus ride from Brock to the 'Pen Centre' which is this retail park/mall, its got tons of shops like H&M, Sears, American Eagle, Zellers. We went to Zehrs to get food and I got some pillows and cutlery etc. Things a deffo a bit more expensive than home but for the groceries we split the bill 5 ways so it wasn't too bad: $30 each (plus the extra stuff that I bought which was $50) the food we got will last quite a while so that's good too. When we got back I went over to the service desk and asked about the phone:
My Landline: 905 688 5550 extension 7716 (don't know if you have to put in a Candian code?) - you can also leave voicemail messages if I'm not in.
My Address: Sophie Bugden
                     Village Residence 214C
                      Brock University
                     500 Glenridge Ave.
                     St. Catharines, Ontario
                     L2S 3A1

Pretty much all we've done today. Justine and Ashley cooked dinner for us tonight and we all ate together was chicken and pasta,  really good. We're going to have a cooking rotation so I'll get to do some too! (ahh!) Haven't decided what we're doing tonight, there's a movie night going on at the union so we might do that.
Tomorrow is another day of the vendor fair plus the Avicci (some Swedish DJ or something) concert in the evening. I've also got my Faculty meeting at 10am til 11 which is for the whole of humanities. Then I'll probably head over to the international centre and pick up my UHIP card and see what they've got going on.

I've taken loads of pics of our house, I'll put them up tomorrow! :):)

Love you xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx