Right, so i arrived in Leeds and immediatly made a whole lot of international friends from Brazil, Canada, the US and Czech republic. For the first week it was just international students and then in the second week the Freshers arrived. This actually created a bit of a divide between the Poms and the Internationals because we had already done alot of the Freshers activities like tours and briefings. As well as this the accommodation seems to be set up to lump all the international people together separate from the English. In Charles Morris where i am staying the whole sixth floor is pretty well dedicated to International people. But slowly and surely i am meeting more and more British people and i'm using all the helpful advice that we were taught during our international O-week, such as talking about the whether, and complaining about stuff... It was all pretty funny. I have signed up for plenty of clubs, but am not sure if i will go through with them. My American mate Ben and my British Nieghbour and a couple of other guys from Charles Morris have been going to American Football practise for the past week, we haven't actually had to put on padding yet and beat each other up - so it has been relatively good fun, running around, catching balls and doing sprints.

I have also gone out alot more than i have done in Newcastle - quite possibly because Leeds has three clubs right on campus. The Venga boys played one night, they have house, indie and cheesy pop music nights as well as quiz nights in the Old Bar. Oh, and i guess i have been attending some classes too, although not too many (not that i have been skipping them, just that it is the first week and they have barely started). I am doing all electives here which should be sweet, two history units and a philosophy. I had the lecture the other day and it was a real hoot, the lecturer used lots of English football (soccer) analagies to explain things. Oh and the accents are a real blast here - everynow and then someone will say something that will make you crack up.