I feel like a short summary is in order:
I am currently living in a shared flat with twelve other students, all from my college. Our course director lives a few blocks away from us and helps to organize us and comes over for dinner nightly. We're not studying at the University of Nottingham yet, as courses do not start until October, apparently. Instead, we are familiarizing ourselves with the area and will be taking several trips across England not only for the experience, but also to satisfy the history class we are taking with our director/professor.
The city of Nottingham has been a great place these first few days. The weather is generally moody, like they said it would be, but for the most part, a good temperature. The buildings are very eclectic, I'll try to post some pictures to do them justice. We've had a great tour guide show us how to best navigate the city and have gone shopping/searching for food several times already.
Best part of the tour: a random, older man walks up to our group when we are all circled around the middle of a building, listening intently to our guide. He stays there for a good twenty seconds until he comes in during a lull in the guide's speech and asks us: "Is this a magic circle?", laughs, then walks away. The man's a hero.
Tomorrow we leave for York and Durham and several other places in between, which I can't be bothered to remember or write down.
It's been great so far, and we're all getting along famously, even with only two shared showers between 12 students.
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