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So the course registration and adviser meeting went down and that was slightly confusing and stressing... Getting used to a different academic system isn't exactly fun. Especially since I've been having trouble with accessing my email and student portal for registering for the course tutorials and labs. But it will work out fine in the end.

What won't work out fine in the end is the amount of money I have been spending on alcohol... I'm definitely going to stop going out and buying drinks in the bars so much. It's sooo expensive. Since I'm getting a lot closer with my flatmates we are hopefully going to make a grocery pot and buy more stuff together. Saving some extra cash sounds absolutely great to me.

It really was another beautiful day and I quite enjoyed walking around Seaton Park and campus, despite my annoyance at a strange system. The weather has been so lovely the past couple days, I'm not sure how I will feel when it starts to get cold and rainy... I'll just have to tough it out lol. I'm registered for two chemistry courses, a vikings history course, and a celtic course about Arthur in literature. I'm super excited for the vikings course lol thinking about it makes me want to watch how to train your dragon. When I got back from my advising meeting I actually had some free time! So I finally finished decorating my room. It feels very homey now lol. While bounding around in my room, my flatmates came back and we decided to cook together and hang out. We had a really good time, despite the lack of actual food to make. We ended up cooking rice and putting bacon, onions, and mushrooms in it lol. It really wasn't that bad once you could get past the porridge-type texture. My roommates are from all over the place. There are two Bulgarians, one Norwegian, and one girl from France (somewhere around Nice I think). They are all really nice and funny. Joanna (from Norway) speaks really good english, sometimes I forget that she doesn't natively speak American english. She learned it when she was quite young so she doesn't struggle nearly as much. The two Bulgarians, Mina and Toni, have thick accents but speak english quite well, they are still learning a lot though. Marie has the most difficulty with the language, but I can tell that she's picking it up better. I'm the hardest for her to understand but I'm helping her out a lot lol. They tell me how lucky I am to grow up speaking english, and I guess that's true since the world has become so monopolized by the english language. I just think it's so interesting that they have such colorful cultural backgrounds. Living with them is going to be very interesting, so far it's already been a lot of fun. When Mina, Marie, and I were cleaning up after dinner I mentioned something about needing saran wrap to cover the left overs and they both looked at me like I had turned into a newt. They had absolutely no idea what I was talking about and just started laughing about that weird phrase. I of course had to explain it completely and I'm going to go out and buy some so they can see it lol.

After dinner I met up with my Americans and Kelsie and Tara from Bri's flat and we went out to the union bar for a little. The same group of guys found us again and we were just like ok... we want to make friends with other people now lol. We ended up hanging out with them for a little. Jordan and I walked around the Hillhead area, even though it was pretty chilly, and we were so excited when we saw bunnies hopping around! It was so strange to see like a little herd of them out in the middle of the night. I was ready to chase after them, but Jordan restrained me from acting like an idiot lol. But we still ended up having a good time. I'm just going to have to keep a lookout for the nocturnal bunnies :)