First Day in Canterbury

Yes, we survived the long plane ride and managed to arrive in Canterbury with only a mild case of jet-lag… though as the evening wears on, I am beginning to realize just how much sleep I missed on the plane.  In fact, I didn’t hardly sleep at all on the plane.  Mary and I decided to watch Prince of Persia on the plane (the airplane actually had a selection of movies!! which, on my last trip, was unheard of).

 

When we arrived at the airport, we were greeted with… no one.  We breezed through customs and piled our suitcases in a heap and tried to figure out what to do.  Finally, someone in our group started asking smart questions of intelligent-looking people, and we sat down to wait – for a very long time – with another group of American students going to Canterbury.  After a long while (which was not helped by all of us being very sleepy from a sleepless night) someone from the University found us, and after another long while we were packed into a bus (for a very long ride) to Canterbury. 

The countryside of England is similar to the US of A (at least, where I live) but they have sheep EVERYWHERE!  Cheap lawn service, I suppose :)

The internet wasn’t working quite properly – for some strange reason half of our group figured out how to obtain internet access, and the other half tried but failed…)  We’ll probably find out tomorrow how to use the internet at our orientation :S

  As usual, the photos are random, but I hope you enjoy them all the same :)

This was our dinner today… which deserves a small explanation :)  After unpacking, we decided to take a walk around town and pick up some dinner.  Keep in mind that we only had breakfast on the plane (and could stomach that very well – the coffee digested admirable, but just not the greasy croissant) and no lunch because of the long wait and bus ride.

We must have walk around the town center twice before Mary agreed with me that we should turn around to find food.  We sought and found Tesco’s, and purchased some fruit, cheese, crackers, and yogurt… as well as an Aero chocolate bar—you gotta have your veggies, you know ;)  Seriously though, the cheese, apples, and crackers made a fine, light, dinner – without making tons of dishes. 

This has been the longest day ever, and I am quite ready to go to bed.

Cheers!

~Laura