A little bit of everything!

So I guess it's time for another blog entry considering a lot has gone on since I last posted.

Greg, Alex and I went on two trips this past weekend which were offered as part of our International Week activities. The first trip was a boat ride around Cardiff Bay which gave us a chance to not only see Cardiff for the first time, but to see it from a perspective I wouldnt have selected for myself. It wasn't as exciting a trip as I would have liked, but I did manage to get some good pictures and see some cool buildings, like the Millenium One building.

Speaking of the Millenium One building, its got a pretty cool copper roof which is something I havent seen before. The inside was just as nice as the outside, we even managed to sneak into a few restricted areas and see the opera house itself from a top floor box, but enough about that, it wasnt too too exciting.

The next day we went to see the 2nd largest castle in the United Kingdom, Caerphilly Castle in Caerphilly. It was a pretty awesome trip (aside from the stop at a medieval village) to say the least. The Castle was actually a Castle within a Castle (sounds odd, but true) and had some pretty awesome views of the hillside and towns around it.

In terms of some of the mistakes we have made, we corrected one, but also made one horrible horrible mistake as well.

The mistake we fixed was our fridge situation with our landlord. The story is that the pictures he sent us of the flat before we signed our contract had two fridges, but when we got here there was only one. The mistake was that we didnt check our inventory of the flat before signing (in fairness, our landlord hadnt sent it too us) or contract. When he arrived to meet us and talk to us about our issues we fully expected him to tell us where to shove it....we were wrong, he heard our arguement and now we are getting another fridge, we also got a bunch of other new things to make the meeting even better.

As for our new mistake, well we learned to read the ingredients in frozen packaged foods pretty quick. We thought we were getting a good deal when we saw 10 chicken drumsticks, 9 Burgers and 9 Pork Sausages all for the low low price of 2.50 lbs, which is about $4 canadian. So the drumsticks bled the entire time they were cooking, the burgers were only 79% beef (the rest was rusk) so they were a little on the crunchy side (we tossed those after about 2 bites) and we didnt even cook the sausages after reading that they have only a whopping 32% pork. We learned our lesson here and we definately wont be making purchases based only on price.

As far as the University goes, it seems to be pretty good so far. I went and finished my enrollment yesterday and got my student card as well. We had a bit of difficulty finding our timetables for classes because we arent used to the systems the school uses just yet but the faculty and other students have been a great help getting us on the right track. It just seems that no matter who we ask a question, they make sure to go that extra little bit to ensure your question has been answered and that we have the information we need.

Anyhow, that is all for now, I'll be sure to blog again by the end of the week.

Regards,
Kyle