I feel that I should be quite honest with today's blog, and say that today hasn't gone exactly as I was expecting. Due to problems I had at my old university I did kind of put all my eggs in one basket with this new uni, and so far it hasn't seemed to have paid off.
One of the main reasons I think that day hasn't gone that well is because my anxiety has been kicking in quite a bit and its taking quite a lot for me to speak to people in this completely foreign place to me.
The other reason that today hasn't gone as well is because I had kind of assumed that per my request I'd be put into a flat with other third years, who a few perhaps would have knowledge of the area and of the university. As I write this half of my flatmates are actually here in the flat with the other two still to arrive either tomorrow or next week. The two that I have met so far I found are actually a bit older then me and have come to do there masters degrees, they are also of a foreign nationality. Although this is in no way a bad thing, I don't mind when any of the students are from, we've already seemed to have some difficulty when conversing. Again their nationalities and ages aren't really problems, I just had this image all built up and that's not how things played out.
I know I'm being really silly in writing all of this, and that for the most part its because I'm just very anxious, however I did think that I should be honest and write things down the way I see them.
It is just the first day, and as I've said half my room mates are yet to arrive, and I should begin my course in about a week so I should meet some more people then. Please don't think I'm nuts as you read this, its just the first day nerves the anxiety and the unknown of being somewhere I don't know a thing about. Wish me luck for the week to come. I hope all other students moving in this week have a great freshers.
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