(Not) the last Goodbye

06/01/05

Orientation talks from 10am- 4pm. skipped the last 2 talks which weren't really beneficial to me and headed to city centre with ken at 330pm. ken wanted to see the city centre since it would be his last night in lancaster. we took the bus from the underpass and the charges are a pound sixty for a return trip. the city centre's really cool. the Lancaster market layout resembles that of the open-air space at Bugis junction in singapore. really nice! i started laughing when i saw this shop called poundworld, where everything goes for one pound, cos it's really like the one dollar shop we have in singapore. haha~ got some essential stuff from there and from some other shops in the vicinity. walked around and had KFC for dinner since ken had a craving for KFC chicken(gosh..i thought only girls had cravings). can't blame him though, the last KFC outlet in glasgow was closing soon. after dinner, we took a short walk to lancaster castle which is just beside the city centre. it is currently being used as a national prison. couldn't really see much since darkness had already fallen. promised ken that i would take more pictures and send them to him after my local town tour on saturday 08/01/05. we took the bus back to Alexandra Square underpass at 7-ish.

07/01/05

Course Registration commenced at 0930hrs. since we were supposed to complete most registration by 1230hrs, i was unable to see ken off at the train station (train from lancaster to glasgow departing at 1105hrs). the most i could do was to walk him to the underpass and watch him board the bus. (feel so guilty =/) completed my course registration at 1200hrs and headed to my college's porters lodge - some international students from the previous terms had left some electrical items and kitchen ware behind and these were available for our (current exchange students) use. not bad.. i found a desk lamp, some hangers, all kinds of washing liquid/detergent, plates and mugs in the trunk room. i lugged all the stuff back to my room and had them cleaned/washed and dried.

i headed to the library at about 1300hrs to complete my matriculation and had my email account set up. after that i walked back to my room and zonked out on my bed for 2 hours.
then it was dinner, shower, organisation of timetable and lights out.