Never fly with British Airways- cancelled our flight at 2am the day we were to fly; reasons unknown, excuse given was snow.... there was no snow. Nonetheless we made it! =)
In the morning the snow came!
New York was even more amazing than the last time i was there! We only really had one full day there but it was still brilliant. in the morning we hit Macy's for supplies to take to Juniata the following day. so shopping in the largest department store in the world is a nightmare- in comes our personal shopper Nancy. Yes we got ourselves a personal shopper to lighten the load we couldn't have asked for a nicer person to help us and it meant we were done in only 2 hours rather than struggling to find everything on our own.
Lazily we called a taxicab even though we were in a hotel two blocks away from Macy's we simply had too much to carry but more time to chill out and see New York that way. Hard Rock Cafe for lunch and my God did we order too much food!!!! As always it was delicious. So far so good we had all our things [bedding etc] and so much time to spare we enjoyed a nice wander around times square and a bit of personal shopping rather than necessities.
At night we hit Planet Hollywood for drinks- well free refills of Pepsi in the end!
Packing all our stuff was interesting to say the least. 12 bags between us made it a very heavy load. The porter at the hotel seems a bit alarmed at our luggage on the way into the hotel as we were only checked in for 2 nights yet we managed to leave with almost double!
We got the train down to Huntingdon as it was cheaper but also we wouldn't have luggage limitations. Was the best choice as we did get to see an awful lot of the countryside. the downside to this was the annoying drunken old man on the train. He picked a fight with a gang from Brooklyn, New York- no idea why. but after a few hours of him being a pain and claiming to have a gun, bomb in a bag and looking at "pink clouds" the guards had him arrested at Lewistown and in the end Jodie and I had to give our details to the police as witnesses.
We arrived in the dark at Huntingdon dumped our bags in our dorms and all the international students went out for dinner. 5 of us over age 21 wanted to go to a bar... we assumed there would be a few... there is only 2. so we set off walking with directions and managed to get lost! getting lost in a very small town is a fine talent to have! Nathan, the international leader, had picked the rest up from the restaurant and spotted us stood on the side of the road confused, took pity on us and drove us to the bars. Memories and Johnnys. two bars 50:50 chance of getting it right....no we got it wrong we went into the wrong bar! No music, No lemonade [i.e. no vodka lemonade for me] pretty dead in there apparently that was the bar we should have avoided. Oops!
The next day was the start of orientation... boring but necessary. We also received training on what to do should someone come onto campus with a gun and start shooting.....
the next four days was pretty much just orientation related activities but Saturday night we went up to State College shopping and went ice skating at Penn State Uni!!!!!!!
Sunday the other students arrived back and i met my room mate Monica. She is of Indian descent and had just come back from a semester at Leeds University UK. She is pre-med at Juniata with the hope to go to Penn State afterwards.
Monday was first day of classes and i was pretty nervous but they went well. I am taking Philosophy, Women and Literature, Forms of Literature and Media Violence. There is a hell of a lot more work here than at Lincoln that's for sure! For a start we have to do all the reading! The professors seem really lovely and helpful, i have heard that some of them will even invite you round to their house for dinner.....
Word of warning though- books are expensive! $79.95 for my philosophy book!
I was a little nervous about this room share thing as i have NEVER shared a room with anyone in my entire life as i am an only child but in all honesty it's not bad at all. I have a good room mate she is lovely and knows what it's like to be an international which is good as she has the experience too. The rooms are bigger than i expected too.
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