Roomies & Campus Tour

A couple people have asked me about my roommates, so here it goes.  It's kind of an odd set up.  I originally thought that I would have an apartment with 4 other people where I would have my own bedroom but  I would share a bathroom, living room, and kitchen with them.  It turns out, we do have our own rooms, but we actually share everything else with the whole floor which is about 15 people in total.

Almost everyone is from someplace different.  We have people from Australia, Portugal, Canada, the Philippines (I think... that guy never really talks, but that's what I heard), Finland, right here in the Netherlands, etc.  Morris, Jill, and I didn't mean to all sign up to live in the same place, but it turns out we did.  They're the other two students from UCF.  We thought we were going to be in the same building on different floors, but we're actually not only on the same floor, but in the same hallway too.

We all get along well.  Tonight, the guy from Portugal who actually lives here year-round and is a regular student at the university decided he would cook dinner for all of us so we could eat together.  The living areas have been pretty dirty since we got here, but we hang out and talk or watch tv together in there anyways.

Also, today was the first day of the welcome week.  We had to watch some boring presentations, but then we got in our "mentor groups" which are groups of about 15 exchange students with 3 "mentor buddies" who are students at the University.  It's supposed to be a smaller group that you get to know better, and we all have dinner together once a week.  We went on a tour of the campus with our mentor groups.  It's a pretty small campus, which is kind of nice, but EVERYTHING is grey.  Every single building.  And it doesn't help that with the weather here, the sky is always grey too.  It's a little depressing, and that also makes it hard to distinguish between buildings.  They have different architecture, but since I don't know the campus well yet, they all look pretty much the same.  There isn't a lot of art or plants, but there are a couple kind of cool trees and some really random statues including one of some naked girl.  I really need to start remembering to take pictures.