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London...

Fri Oct 22nd 21:17:49 2004

What can I say about University so far? It's been amazing. It really has, and I've had a load of fun and done a load of work and it's only the end of the third week. I've just come back from FabricLive, which was a wicked night; there's just so much to do around here especially in the part of London I am staying in. Unfortunately, there hasn't been an abundance of free time as they have got us working rather hard already, but it's good stuff so I can't complain.

My room is cool, really high up with a pretty good view, but the whole building in general is a bit run down but the atmopshere is brilliant.

It's a completely new experience for me doing a lot of things that I had taken for granted like cooking everyday, and washing my stuff and ironing. It's helping me become a more rounded person though (not physically though :p). I got a bit ill in the first week or so, with a standard dose of 'freshers flu' which has not fortunately gone, and I'm back to full health and trying to work on my fitness with a few cross country/athletics runs planned.

The people here are all very nice and friendly and I've made some great friends already. Great diversity of people here too; it seems that over 50% are international students with a lot of Chinese students especially. Additionally, everyone is very bright, but some more so than others. I met a guy tonight that somehow managed to do a whole 7 A-levels in one year and get AAAABBC and all the A-levels were respectable subjects including Maths, Further Maths and Computing. I thought I had it hard in my last year; this guy must have studied 24/7 for a whole year. Immense.

Financially, things are looking somewhat bleak as the first term is always quite expensive with signing up for stuff and buying things that are needed. I really need to sort out my overdraft, to help me get through the final weeks I think. It's not actually as bad as I had expected price wise in London, but still not easy for a student to live on.

My little brother has a weeks holiday off school so the family are coming down to see me this Sunday which will be cool. Then the following weekend, I am off to the Lake District to get away from London for a bit, which is going to be marvellous providing it doesn't rain too much.

It's now actually 5am and I've got plenty to do tomorrow (today) and although I thought I had more to say, my mind always go blank when I start to actually write an entry, so I think it's bed time for me. Hope everyone is well :)