17.09.2011

So here I am .. In England in my dorm room. I would have never believed that this would actually happen, but it has. Where do I start ?
Hmm ok, from the very begging . So I woke up at 8 o'clock  although I have to admit I slept pretty bad, cuz obviously I was nervous. My plain departed at 12:30 , but my father insisted that we should be at the airport at least at 10:30. ( very early I must say) . But that's not why I had to woke up so early, no . Today was special day not only because I stepped into new life , but because there were parliament elections. And as a loyal citizen I had to do my duty and go vote for the next parliament. So I did , but I had to do it before I went to airport, that's why I had to woke up so early ... Anyway , cutting the crap. Of course There were a lot of things that I almost forgot , but luckily I when I am here and unpacking my stuff I think I haven't forgot anything :) yee , must be the first time ...

Ok, so first really scary think was that at the airport boarding pass check , when my ticket was checked the computer kept saying that my flight doesn't exist ?!?!?!?!? , ok so I stand there thinking what the hell?? while the guy keeps checking the ticket , but the computer keeps bleeping and showing red screen.... After some more (about 100 tries) he just decided to let me pass , thank God.  For a moment i thought that everything is going to fall apart when it hasn't even started. ...

fast forward. the flight was good, no trouble. Actually the first time in my life I felt so calm and .... maybe even happy. I didn't feel any kind of stress. I was surprised about that, but I used the moment to relax and just admire how beautiful the clouds look from above ....Beautiful... My seat-mates were two Brits that fell asleep the moment that the flight took to air- lol sleepy Brits... So no fun from the (blakussēdētājiem :D) ..
Next when I arrived at the airport everything was cool ,  I already had been here so I knew were to go and what to do. I found the bus stations, bought the ticket and got to Hatfield ( the town were the Uni is located.) .. Ou , in the airport I met one guy named Gļebs that also goes to study in Hertfordshire, together we made the journey to our university. It took us some considerable amount to find the accommodation office , but finally we did.
As I was suspecting , there is a big mess whenever there are Brits involved :D . One gives us keys but forget to give me my door opening card, the other says that the office is closed, but others that we should immediately go to the office and register... Ok after I got my key , got to my room , and left my luggage  at the room . The room as u can see in the picture above is kinda cool , I think :D . ( i gonna add a full tour of my dorms as soon as I get the chance :)) ...
Then I had a nice chat with one of the staff, and after I went to the office where I should have registered, when all I got was some next weeks schedule :D. Anyway , there I met girl named Olga , at first I thought she could be Latvian , but didn't ask her or anything, but afterwards , she saw my passport and herself started to talk with me in Latvian . Nice, so we had a small chat , about stuff :D , she just ended her 3rd year, and she had problems speaking Latvian , so she better chose to speak in English :D lol ... Ok , when I went near the basketball playing ground , I suddenly heard somebody speaking Latvian :D??? lol not again... but yes for real there were 3 Latvian guys playing basketball with some black dudes.

So after all that I and G (from now on stands for Gļebs) decided to go to supermarket, of course we didn't quite know how to get there so we asked some guy in bus stations , and he kindly said go forward , some 5 minutes. Ok so we go for about 20 min, and finally see the shop (called Gallery). When we  entered we see that WTF? no food stores only a lot of outlet shops , from book outlets to clothes and electronics :D. So we ask the guard were is some food supermarket ( i suppose they are called wall-mart ) dunno :D , anyway . We go in and try to shop...

And it was quite a surprise , I was totally unprepared I didn't know what I need, What I already have ,at the dorm kitchen . Ok I bought some junk :D , lame but I just thought no need to rush buying fries and kettles and stuff :D ...Ye by the way , I am the ONLY living soul in my hall :( , so I have quite the freedom to just walk around. Only one problem , its darn hard to find my way back :D, its big and everything looks the same :D and the hall has 3 floors ...

OK ,back to the shop. One thing that I really noticed, every damn Brit has some kind of liqueur in their basket... what a drunkards :D

Ok, I guess its gonna be enough for today. I be back tomorrow. Sleep tight. And feel free to leave comments and if u have any , questions...

P.S. I have the BEST view from my window :
Ye that's a football field :))))))) yeeeee... Gonna try to approach those though looking guys some day to ask if I can join.... first I need some football shoes ...