The One with the Tic Tacs

Today I had my meeting with the academic advisor called Jeanne D'arc Gomis - she's lovely. Me and Becca went together because we're the only ones from Keele, and we got very excited in the office when there were folders with all the itnernational partner universities on - and Keele was the biggest one! - just like the international office at Keele. It reminded us of home...

We finished that, then went to meet Marcella at East Dorm for breakfast. It was nearly eleven, and seeing nothing we liked very much, Becca and I decided it was ok to eat pizza for breakfast. Technically it was brunch. The univeristy have very kindly provided all internationals with free meals until Friday, so we're taking advantage of that and trying out all the different eating places. We then went to the bookstore to see which books we needed for our courses. Appstate has a rental system here where you rent the hardbacks you need free of charge and bring them back at the end of term - very handy so we don't have to buy loads of heavy books we couldn't take back with us anyway. The merchandise shop here is immense - everything from Appstate t-shirts, to flip flops, to mugs and fluffy Josef golf club covers (Josef the Mountaineer is the Appstate mascot - he's immense).

We then decided to catch the Appalcart (the free public transport system) to the Wal-Mart to get some supplies like laundry detergent and i needed a comforter for my bed. We also got some fake Sprite (called Twist Up) and fake Dr Pepper (called Doctor Thunder). Also we found Tic Tacs that were pink grapefruit flavoured, which got us very excited because they are also pink in colour :). We went back to Becca's room to chill for a bit (although we couldn't really chill because there's no air conditioning in East Hall). Then we went to meet some internationals for a bit, then went back to our rooms. The new season of Project Runway starts tonight so hopefully we'll be watching that on Meagan's TV :) Skyping the family is really cool, because it's like a free phone call. Missing them and all my friends but am having such a cool time, everyone here is so friendly and welcoming.