The rest of the EMU Crew and I have found a host of fun places to spend our 5 day weekends. The main places are 'The Friary' and 'Barracuda' (which always gets that song by Heart stuck in my head ... 'ooooooooo, barracuda!'). The Friary is a kind of student bar with a club attached and is the place to go most nights of the week. Barracuda is a bar/restaurant that offers £3 meals and has the best chicken wings I have ever tasted. Buffalo Wild Wings doesnt hold a candle to this place!
In all the time our little group of Americans has had to explore before classes started we took to growing our group. We first adopted some of our flatmates into our group (Celine who is Dutch, and Lindsey, Cassie, and Brian from New Hampshire). Then we met people up at Uni (Olga from Poland, The 4 French girls from ... France, Ann An from China, and Lucie from Czeck) and we also met some people at the clubs (Sabri from the UK; Jo, Sam, Marilee, and Antonie from the UK; Sabri from the UK; and many other people who I forget at the moment). Now when we go out we bring about 17 people with us. That is enough of a group to make T-shirts!!!
I finally, after all this time had my first class on Thursday. I am taking 'Molecular and Cellular Biology' and 'Maps and Mapmaking.' What do these classes have to do with music performance and music education? I have no idea, that is somethig you will have to take up with EMU.
I was supposed to be taking a class called 'Session Musicianship' but unfortunatly it is not being offered to students starting in January. My advisor at Derby signed me up for this class!!! WTF!!! Now I have to sign up for a different class but I have to first talk to the IT department because I am locked out of my Derby Online account.
I am going to end this post now so that I have more interesting things to post the rest of the time I am here (I already have some stuff prepared!)
This is our group after a week here:
(Top Row - Left to Right) Patrick, Ann An, Courtney, Chris, Cassie, Lindsey, Celine, Lucie, Jenn, Olga.
(Bottom Row) Sienna, Sherry, Me, and ... uh ... I dont remember, he is Olga's friend
