Well, that did not take too long. I am finally settled in Southampton in my room at university accommodation. The city centre is so awesome in Southampton (compared to that of Cardiff), there are several ‘real malls’ in this town like those we have in the Gulf, one with about a 100 shops. They’ve got everything from HMV, Zavvi, and Waterstone, to Forbidden Planet (Love this shop, will tell you about it in a future post), Bella Italia, and Krispy Kreme!
Unfortunately, my accommodation and the university is not in the city centre (unlike Cardiff Uni which was literally steps away from the city centre). I have to take the bus to go to town here, will take a time to get use to and it is probably better as I won’t waste time in town a lot this way.
My hall is not too bad, the furniture is a bit old, but ALL ROOMS HAVE PLUG-AND-PLAY HI-SPEED INTERNET, and when these people mean Hi-Speed internet THEY MEAN IT. My room is on the ground floor and that is not cool, because it is probably going to get noisy when school starts AND you need to close the curtains if you want to have any sort of privacy at all. Bad-Good thing about it is that I’m on one the last blocks in the back of the halls area, this is bad because it is far in the back, but it is good because it won’t be as noisy as the ones near the entrance.
It was very hard to drag my luggage around while fasting, but I did it. Today was worse that yesterday and I barely could drag myself around at iftaar time. Didn’t have the most glamorous meal for breakfast – in fact just had McDonald’s.Â
Will show you some pics of Southampton tomorrow.
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