Well, I had the best day of my life… and now I had the worst. Getting to Aberystwyth was a total nightmare! I got here 4 days ago but now I have the time to sit down and pay some attention to this blog. So… 26th September 2009 – crying (again) at the airport in Bulgaria, the flight was like getting on a rollercoaster, and after that I was too busy running and dragging my damn suitcase. When we arrived at Gatwick airport we had one hour to catch our train. And we thought everything would be ok……. We spent 10 min or so walking through so many corridors I forgot where we were. Then of course I made a blunder. While they were stamping my passport I dropped something on the ground, kneeled down to pick it up and then my rucksack dragged me down…. and I fell on my butt. (Stop laughing damn it!) I broke my sunglasses, not that I need them here, it’s been cloudy ever since we arrived. So after the passport thingy we spent another 20 minutes waiting for our luggage, my suitcase handle was broken or course, and till we get to the train station, our train was gone. We asked if our tickets could work for a later travelling, I showed the ticked reference code and the card I bought them with online, the man checked in the computer…. and said this was not the card they were bought with and began to look at me as if I’m a violator or something. So we bought new tickets… and this is where the fun began. We had to catch a train to get to London bridge, from there we took the underground to get to Euston station, and from there we had to take the train to Birmingham. And the whole time we were running like hell and dragging rucksacks, laptops, suitcases weighing 30 kgs total up and down elevators and stairs… With just 2 hours of sleep the night before, I still wonder how we survived. When we took the Birmingham train we had an hour and a half to travel with it, so we managed to rest a little. From there we took the train to Aberystwyth, met other Bulgarians… and we got there… here, I mean. But it was horrible. I don’t know if I want to go back the same way for the Christmas vacation. Since then we’ve been going to seminars, welcome meetings, today we registered in the university, but I still haven’t got my timetables with my lectures so I’m still nervous. At least I managed to buy the new AFI CD – that’s all that matters. xD That’s it for now, wish me good luck in adapting to wherever I’ve fallen into.
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