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Every Tuesday and Saturday UEA hosts a 'club night' in the LCR (Large Common Room. A Huge room for everything... that's where I saw Reel Big Fish).
Basically, it's just a huge dance party where students can buy cheap drinks. I have only been to two, because, COME ON!
EVERY Tues and Sat? Do these kids sleep?? By now, that's like... 12 LCR nights!! ...Crazy kidz...

At each event, there is some sort of 'fancy dress'.  Now, when I first heard about that, I was really excited. I thought to myself, Yes! FINALLY a place where I can wear this cute dress of mine!.....

WRONG...
Fancy Dress does means to dress up... but to dress up in some sort of costume according to whatever theme... I guess all my years playing dress up as a kid will soon come in handy!

This past Tuesday, the theme was 'Chav's and Emo's'.... I know what an emo is, but I had never heard of a chav.  Apparently, a Chav is sort of like what we would think of when we hear the 'Chola'..... Ya? Rigning any bells? Or... A white girl who dresses sorta gangster-like... English white trash?? You know. With the gaudy jewlery, the matching trackie, make-up so caked on you can't tell what their real skin looks like, big hoop earings...


I went as a Chav:

Notice the 'winged' eye makeup...the fake pearls...the hoops...the hair slicked into a high pony tail and hairsprayed down so that not one hair is sticking up...OH;and they don't smile either. So here is Ben and I - doing our best 'CHAV' impression.

Luke, Harry, and Lisa... They went as Emos; although, Emo's don't smile either... jeez Lisa...!

Me, Ben, and Mikayla.... much Happier Chavs!

(Yes - Mikayla and I are nerdy and we wear our earplugs... but where as others are losing their hearing, I'm not... When people ask and start to make fun of me, I just blame it on the fact that I have to because I'm a music major... truth of the matter is, unlike them, Mikayla and I won't have to ask over and over what someone is saying because we lost our hearing at some silly dance party, and we won't have to get hearing aids for a very very very long time)

Aw CUUTE!

...just three American Girls playing dress up :)

The flat around the dining table before LCR:

L-R;

Matt, Me, Mikayla, Lisa, Luke, Taylor, Ben, Anisha, Ruth

The Cornetto:

The cornetto is a wooden instrument with a small trumpet-like mouthpiece and fingerholes like a recorder, and is usually covered in leather.  Typically the instrument has an slight curve and an octagonal cross-section; it has six fingerholes and a thumbhole.


The name comes from the Italians; "little horn" ("corno" - horn, plus the suffix "etto" - small); it is also nowadays often referred to as "cornett" (with two t's to give a distinction from the modern brass instrument, with which it has no connection).

The repertoire for the instrument covers the Renaissance and early Baroque periods.
I was introduced to this instrument today, and will most likely be playing it in the March Concert - seeing as though I can get the tuning right!
...more about me and the cornetto to come...

Went out with the flatmates again and Anisha let me borrow her AMAZINGLY HOTT SHOES

LOVE LOVE LOVED them!

The first few days of school were okay. It's kind of confusing though. I feel like I should be doing homework, but I don't really have any yet. I mean - I have essays due, but not till the end of Feburary or March... I GUESS I could start those.... but instead, I'm just going to put up some more pictures!!

(Actually, I have been reading for my Holocaust class.  It's a book by a survivor named Primo Levi.  The book is called 'If this is a man'.  It's pretty good so far. Nothing too scarry yet...)

Me, Anisha, and Ruth

Back: Bob

Middle: Mikayla, Luke, Rachel, Ben

Bottom: Ruth

I have decided that Mikayla is a long lost relative. Her last name is Hunter!! There are more Hunter's besides me, my Dad, and my Gpa!!!

My Schedule this term:

Monday: 7.30p-9.30 = Choir
Tuesday: 11a-12 = Witchcraft, Magic and Belief in Early Modern Europe
                    1p-2 = Witchcraft, Magic and Belief in Early Modern Europe
                    4p-6 = Performance
Wednesday: 6.30p-9.30 = Orchestra (Aka: band)
Thursday: 11a-12 = Witchcraft, Magic and Belief in Early Modern Europe
                     1p-2 = The Holocaust
                     5p-7 = The Holocaust
Friday: 9a-10.30 = The Holocaust

I will also have a trumpet lesson in there somewhere, but I won't know until Tuesday when I have my first lesson.  Apparently, there is only one trumpet performance student, so the trumpet professor, who does not live in Norwich, will be coming into town just for us.

On Wednesday I woke up bright an early in the morning (4:30a!) and took the Hogwarts Express to Norwich... okay. It's not really called the Hogwarts Express, but it was a legit train.  It took about two hours to get to Norwich.  When I got there I hired a taxi that took me straight to the Accommodation Office to get my key to my dorm.  I have my own room, with a shared kitchen and shared bathrooms.  I have a total of 11 flatmates, both girls and boys.

The opening on the right is my door, and the purple door on the left is my closet.  My bed is to the left and behind the bookshelf is a sink.

When you walk into my room from the door in the previous picture, my bed would be on the right hand side, and that is the view from my window.  As you can see, there is loads and loads of SNOW!!!! I woke up to it snowing this morning. 

And in case you are wondering Mom; Yes. I am eating. I got this from a place called Zest on Campus for lunch yesterday.... fish. And bread pudding for dessert... I also got free lunch today from my orientation meeting :)

Last night I meet two of my flatmates.  Their names are Zahra and Ruth. They are really really sweet girls.  They even made dinner for me! We had spaghetti, and it was delicious! They then took me to do laundry.  It costs two pounds to do a load in the wash! That is about $3.18!! I have decided that I am just going to hang everything in my room to dry.  My room is rather warm, so it only takes until the next morning to dry - which is not bad.

Here are just some lovely pictures of more snow. It is currently snowing as I write this blog. Beautiful to look at, but a pain to walk in!!!