#2.05.15

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Thursday, February 5th

Finally feeling settled in enough to get this blog up and running. It's been a whirlwind these past six days, familiarizing myself with the city, exploring the campus I'm going to be calling home and organizing my thoughts so that starting out this semester will be quick and painless, with all that I need for a successful second half of the school year. Along with my friend Emma, we've managed to cram a whole lot into these short-feeling days and slowly, but surely, Sheffield is morphing from somewhere completely foreign into a place in which I can see myself living for the next five months.

Today was the first day of Sheffield Orientation, preparing its students for registration which will be tomorrow morning. We navigated ourselves around a few key uni buildings and managed to gather all the essential orientation materials given to students new to Sheffield for the second semester. One stop at the coffee shop, Costa, later and we gave the Sheffield City Centre a look around and made a few essential purchases, needed for life in a dorm apartment building. We're in the process of assembling a list of future essentials and will be doing a final shopping trip down at the local mall, Meadowhall, at the end of this week (and just before I have to say goodbye to Emma!). 

Tomorrow is probably the most important day before the actual start of school with modules (classes) being selected, a UCard being distributed (the equivalent of a St. Olaf ID) and a possible visit to my future residence at Yarncliffe apartments. Fingers crossed all goes well. There's also a chance I might get to meet Nick Grimshaw (a famous UK radio host/DJ whose show I have frequently listened to) tomorrow night at Sheffields "Big Night Out" which would be extremely exciting. More info and pics to follow but all in all today was extremely productive and tomorrow will be as well!