These last two days have been extremely frustrating for everyone in our group!! All we needed at the end of the day was a giant group hug and hopes that tomorrow will be better...
Sunday had an amazing start with a group run around Coventry. We even made it back without getting lost. Round of applause everyone! Then a few of us attended Holy Trinity Church for a nice service. I think we were the only students at the service with a bunch of old geisers. It was great though! Everyone was so nice and welcoming. When we were seated waiting for the service to start, an old man even came up to us and said hello because he was told that we had just arrived from America. How cute!! After the service we got some much needed free coffee, cookies, and squash bread before leaving. We then were able to go grocery shopping for the first time. Can't wait for another semester of cooking! After eating and resting up, we met up with Nev (our Coventry director), Ian (one of our professors), and some international MBA students at a pub before the Coventry Blaze hockey game. This team is the top team in Europe, but I would compare it to Juniors in America except that the players were much older. The size of the arena was much smaller than I expected and the players didn't even have their own box.. haha.. it was just marked off by a fence. The hockey game was very fun though! While in line to shake hands, a full out brawl started between the two teams. I have never seen anything like it! It just wouldn't stop.
Then the frustration started. When arriving back at our apartment, WiFi and our ethernet cords went completely out. So we went to bed early. This morning, everything was still shut down. So we got our day moving and went to go pick up our ID cards which let us into every building on campus and all of the information we needed for WiFi, email, and other student administration material. Well, we were not given the correct information and ended up standing in the wrong line at the international office for about 2 hours... Once we got everything figured out, it was time to go to our first meeting. We thought that we were going to receive our module schedule and more information about the week. We did not... We were under the impression we were supposed to have orientation this week but haven't heard anything.. I don't think we were even expected on that day for the meeting... Everything became more confusing. Then our second meeting to learn more about the details of the modules and academic stuff we found out wasn't even scheduled and the person had left. I bought some chocolate and felt just a wee bit better:) So, we returned home frustrated to find our WiFi still not working... Things may have been blown out of proportion, but I think we were just expecting a much different first few days with more organization and smoothness like the Coventry students had coming to CSB/SJU. Gotta stay positive though!!
Sunday had an amazing start with a group run around Coventry. We even made it back without getting lost. Round of applause everyone! Then a few of us attended Holy Trinity Church for a nice service. I think we were the only students at the service with a bunch of old geisers. It was great though! Everyone was so nice and welcoming. When we were seated waiting for the service to start, an old man even came up to us and said hello because he was told that we had just arrived from America. How cute!! After the service we got some much needed free coffee, cookies, and squash bread before leaving. We then were able to go grocery shopping for the first time. Can't wait for another semester of cooking! After eating and resting up, we met up with Nev (our Coventry director), Ian (one of our professors), and some international MBA students at a pub before the Coventry Blaze hockey game. This team is the top team in Europe, but I would compare it to Juniors in America except that the players were much older. The size of the arena was much smaller than I expected and the players didn't even have their own box.. haha.. it was just marked off by a fence. The hockey game was very fun though! While in line to shake hands, a full out brawl started between the two teams. I have never seen anything like it! It just wouldn't stop.
Then the frustration started. When arriving back at our apartment, WiFi and our ethernet cords went completely out. So we went to bed early. This morning, everything was still shut down. So we got our day moving and went to go pick up our ID cards which let us into every building on campus and all of the information we needed for WiFi, email, and other student administration material. Well, we were not given the correct information and ended up standing in the wrong line at the international office for about 2 hours... Once we got everything figured out, it was time to go to our first meeting. We thought that we were going to receive our module schedule and more information about the week. We did not... We were under the impression we were supposed to have orientation this week but haven't heard anything.. I don't think we were even expected on that day for the meeting... Everything became more confusing. Then our second meeting to learn more about the details of the modules and academic stuff we found out wasn't even scheduled and the person had left. I bought some chocolate and felt just a wee bit better:) So, we returned home frustrated to find our WiFi still not working... Things may have been blown out of proportion, but I think we were just expecting a much different first few days with more organization and smoothness like the Coventry students had coming to CSB/SJU. Gotta stay positive though!!
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