Bars, Orientation, and Trivia

     This is going to be impossible to keep up on and remember it all, but! I will keep trying. As previously mentioned, we went out the night everyone moved in. There is a bar called the Imperial that is very close, and very cool. It's loungey in the front, restaurant in the middle, and bar in the back (I've decided). I got a chicken sandwich and realized how incredibly plain some British food is going to be. Luckily, cider is popular here and it is cold! Everyone lied to me when they told me all the beer would be warm. A huge amount of the exchange students went - we took up probably 7 tables put together.
    It's really interesting to see where everyone is from and the little differences between countries, but there still ended up being a ton of Canadians here. One of the girls I've been hanging out with actually goes to school at Carleton, but we managed to find each other here.
    Yesterday we had orientation(ish). My campus tour was not super helpful, but it's such a beautiful campus it was hard to care much. I ended up figuring out where a lot of things were on my own today anyway. A bunch of us stayed together for registration and etc. so it wasn't too painful. There's a little store with a decent amount of food that isn't crazy expensive, a few food shops, and the school stuff store in the forum as well, I dig it. I also lurked the school sweaters today, but the style I like doesn't come in the school colour soo I am still mulling it over. Need it to be forest green or nothing!!!\
   Anywho. We also had a few welcome lectures, explaining that Exeter is very safe (you're welcome, Mom) and that they mark like beasts. Anything over a 70 percent here is what I would consider an A+, apparently. So here I should be aiming for a 60-65%, I guess. Scary. Also, our international officer is hilarious and sweet, even though we were all exhausted from jetlag she made us laugh while telling us obvious things (like to eat, and drink water, and go to class).
    Last night we also had a trivia night, which was pretty amusing. My team was a bunch of people from my floor and some other lovely people. My campus tour leader also came and joined us, and he was pretty hilarious. Apparently if you do a three year program at Exeter and you're from Hong Kong, you pick up a British accent. Even with Dennis's help we did not win, but we got a free dinner and made up some solid answers.