The last week has been a complete whirlwind. I moved in on Wednesday and as of yet, I don't have a roommate although am anticipating getting one anytime. My room is lovely and homely and everyone in the house is really nice. I've made friends with lots of the exchange students and all the American students are arriving today.

Last night we had a pizza social amongst the international students and today we're going to Newport Harbour. On Sunday, there is a 'First Night' party for all incoming freshmen and then lots of events next week. In the next few weeks, I'm planning trips to Providence for some shopping, surfing in Narragansett (a beach nearby) and then seeing The Fray at the Ryan Center on campus. The campus is incredible here; we have a shopping emporium which has everything from a Dunkin' Donuts, a Subway and a Chinese restaurant to a tanning salon and florist. The Ryan Center also sports an ice rink and we're going ice skating next week.

I'm going to upload my photos after Newport so you can all see how beautiful this little area of the world is.

I've arrived in Boston!

I'm ridiculously exhausted from the jetlag and the flight but at least we travelled in style. As my Dad and I went to board, we got told our seats had been upgraded to Premium Economy by Virgin Atlantic, woop! Not to go on about it too much, but we had masses of leg room, they brought us pre-flight drinks, hot towels just after take off, the best airline food I have ever tasted on actual plates with actual silver cutlery and served from a menu that we got given at take-off. Not to mention the bundles of free drinks, free fruit, free ice cream and free bread we got given. Best way to fly ever.

Ok, so we arrived in Boston and the weather was so nice. It was really warm and sunny. Once we got back to the hotel, we pretty much just crashed out watching a bit of Seinfeld and I fell asleep before nine probably. It's 7am here, I'm about to have a shower then after breakfast we're going to explore Boston.