freewheelinotter | the stars are out tonight and you’re the brightest one shining in my sky |

So been here 5 days now and it’s been good. Been out every night except for last night due to lack of funds. My course decided to give us a wonderful maths test yesterday even though we’re meant to be in Freshers week and not start until Monday. At least I managed to just scrape through enabling me to avoid “maths surgery” for the time being. Still haven’t had to brave the washing machine just yet. Got enough clothes for that at least. Not sure how my first attempt at washing my clothes will go, but we’ll see…

Well I’m all settled in at Cardiff and it’s amazing. Got here yesterday morning and course the net wouldn’t work so had to wait until today. But went out last night, me and my new found mates walked around most of the city looking for a place to go and ended up in Spoons followed by Subway. Then one person suggested a club called Barfly and it turned out it was an under-18’s night lol. So it was back to the Union for the Fresher’s party. Damn good.

Picture of my room:

So in just over 36 hours I’ll be leaving the country. Technically. Last time I checked Wales is still another country. But anyway, off into the big wide world - but still a student which is great.

University! Bit daunting that I have to cook for myself. I’ve been making the odd few dinners now when parents are away/late but to survive on my skills for the next 3 months should be interesting. Can’t wait though. Kinda the whole reason that I have this beast of a laptop though.

So I’ve finally got my bright and shiny 12″ PowerBook - is so great I’m not used to this amount of speed due to using my dying iMac for what seems like forever.

Took me about an hour to copy all my music, photos, desktop pictures, ical calenders, documents…well you get the idea lol.

Currently it’s special place is my desk in my room. And the desk hasnt been cleared since I finished college about 3 months ago. But as soon as I found this was the best wireless spot, well all the crap found new homes.

Looks like this site might be starting to get a few more (random and crap) posts

The anniversary of September 11th is upon us again. A lot seems to be happening in America at the moment. I don’t think they’re quite used to things happening in their own country to this degree. I didn’t realise that they were in the midst of planning a new commercial building for the Ground Zero site. The ‘Freedom Tower’ apparantly, but that’s not due to be finished until 2011.

I’d never realised how many NY firefighters were killed at the World Trade Centre site. Apparantly, 343 died, which is 12% of the total victims. That’s a lot. They’re meant to be putting a memoral up for the victims but that won’t be finished for another 4 years. I mean, 8 years to create a memorial? Take their time.

I’m sure they’re in many people’s prayers and minds today - but for their families and friends, every day.