Well it has been a crazy first week at the castle! orientation, my first field trip, my first week of classes! and now it is time to get into "school mode" (a dreaded term).
but i will begin with orientation:
orientation at Herstmonceux is not your typical frosh week - there are a lot of orientation sessions, getting familiar with England, time management, tours of the school and the grounds (which are beautiful), corridor meetings and ton's of other stuff. then at night when the sessions are done everyone heads to the pub to play pool or darts or have a beer or just hang out. One day we had a two hour break so someone decided to walk the 20 minute walk into town just for fun - soon enough more than half the school was heading down the street into the little village of Herstmonceux. One thing is for sure, good ideas spread like wildfire here.
we finished of our week of orientation with a day trip on Sunday to Brighton. On the way we stopped for an hour at Pevensey Castle:
(I did not take this picture)
then after Pevensey Castle we headed off to the Birling Gap which is a beach on the English Channel
surprisingly the water was not even that cold - one of my friends even went swimming! after a couple hours at the beach we headed off to spend some time in Brighton and then we went to the University of Sussex to check out the library that we have access to here at school.
Anyways, it was a pretty busy first week and this friday I'm heading off to London for the weekend - but you'll here more about that later :)
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