This place is just nuts.

Coming here was one hell of a shock. For starters the Uni is totally oversubscribed (read: everyone who said they would come, HAS come), the result of which is that all available rooms in the hall have been converted to bedrooms. Including the TV room, and a lot of tiny storage cupboards. One of which I was alotted to. Dad put up a fuss on my behelf, and the wardens "discovered" that a mistake had been made...
I now have a room that is capable of being lived in.

This is a very lonley place. To date, I've only one person to my name that I could consider a friend, and for that, you should look under "perfect stranger". I'm still feeling totally alone, even after my little trip back to banff last weekend (something I will repeat this weekend). I can't count the amount of times I cried last week, purely out of not knowing what other response to have. I'm still very loney.

The workload looks massive. From what I'm seeing in the introductary lectures, there's a tough year ahead. I've NO idea how people are ablr to balance their study with fun. With the dyslexia on top of that, things are going to get sweaty (in a mental sort of sense).

The oppertunites for fun look endless. So far I've joined Film watching, Film making, Creative writing (something woefully absent from the english syllabus), Anime, Comedy and SCUBA clubs. It was at the meeting of the film making club that the wierd thing happened.

We were all at the front of a bar called "drouthy neebors" when a very important looking motorcade of black vintage mercedes dorve by the window, stopped infront of the no entry signs that bar that section of road from the road out of town. On the front of each car were these flags: http://www.flags.net/elements/gif_flags/AFGH001.GIF

All three cars proceeded to perform three-point turns, and having caught the attention of everyone in the front of the bar, a figure in the back proceeded to wave at us untill the cars drove off again.

The man was this man: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3153494.stm

I got waved at by an important internation statesman whilst sipping a long vodka.

Absolutely nuts.