First Day of Class

Today was the first day of classes. Classes here are very different here than they are back at home.  First off, we all begin British studies at 8:30 together.  All 183 of us.  I don't think I have ever had more than 60 in a class!  It is also all lecture with limited information on the powerpoints.  This forces you to take in all of the information and pull out what you think are the key points rather than the professor providing it for you.  Not sure how I feel about that yet!  At 11, I have my smaller group British studies class (around 20 people).  There are several papers to be written as well as in class presentations (yet more I am not quite accustomed to being and EXSS major).  However, it was a fairly interesting day of classes.  After class, I went in to Grantham with some friends.  We first stopped at the rail station to get rail passes, but I didn't think to bring my ID, so I get to go back late in the week.  Oops.. After searching for various items, Emily and I eventually found our way to the "walmart" of England, ASDA.  Everything here is so different, even with names and types of foods and other products, label designs, store layout, etc. I was still searching for an alarm clock, and couldn't find them with the appliances.  We asked one of the gentleman working there and he said to go to aisle 36, which contained a lot of kitchenware, so we were eventually confused, but low and behold, in the middle of the aisle there were some clocks and alarm clocks.  This afternoon, I also went on my first run since I have been here on the canal path located around a mile and a half from campus.  It was beautiful to be running along the canal as the sun began to set, then returning with the manor as the view of my final destination.  I could definitely get used to this!  Looking forward to returning again tomorrow!

Train Station in Grantham