Orientation

Punting is gloriously fun.

This afternoon the MCR organised this punt expedition to Granchester, the prettiest ever village that's about 1/2 hr walk away from Cambridge, which took us about 2 hours to punt there as we kept investigating the banks, the trees... oh fine! we just kept zigzagging instead of going straight.

We then had scones and tea on deckchairs...how very English...afterwhich i elected to run back to see if I can order a printer a printer online which was sadly out of stock. I have just been charged 11 pounds by the college for a print job which should have been no more than 3-4 pounds and frankly 3 dollars at most at home and I suspect it's because the college printer kept jamming and though nothing came out, these messed up print jobs were considered as completed print jobs.

still it's alarming as I can easily buy 2-3 books for the costs of the small stack of printed reading lists! and I am thinking of buying my own printer now though I am not sure that's going to be much better.

Apart from that, I am going to start looking for a non-audition choral group as I want to keep up with music, considering language lessons, as well as a host of other things. I don't want to be horribly friendless in cambridge during the long vacations, since Cambridge runs on intensive termdates!

I am hoping to get on with actually living here in Cambridge, rather than spending any more time trying to orientate myself, as I want to actually start living, if that makes any sense!

So far the MCR (read Middle Common Room: postgraduates)---short explanation here----Colleges communities are divided into JCR, MCR and SCR (fellows/lecturers)---have been very good with organising fun activities---at least the few i attended!