‘There’s nothing to look forward to today’ I told myself as soon as I hit the alarm button this morning, so I decided to spent an extra hour in bed. This whole University thing -you must prolly say I am the saddest person in this world- is not making me feel so excited AT ALL.

I woke up, ate my breakfast, took a shower and went to the business building to attend a talk. It was about the Introduction to E-learning. The BLACKBOARD system, which allows access by students to learning material from any computer at any time. It was pretty useful I must say. Then we had our meeting with our personal tutor which was indeed very short but helpful.

I went back to my study room straight after the meeting. Went to the kitchen and realized that I need drinking water and food items in order for me to – survive –. And so I went to the shop. Tesco, which is my favorite supermakert is like an hour away from here so I went to Iceland grocery store instead. When I went inside, I told myself, ‘this is going to be tough’.  Tough not becuase I am going to shop food for myself but actually because I am not in TESCO -where all my needs are. Ugh. I spent like almost an hour wandering inside the store, looking for healthy, easy-to-cook  and of course cheap grocery items. I managed to get all the food items that I needed at the end. I was on my way to the checkout when suddenly a light bulb appeared up above my head . ’Ting’    Cheese! ”I need cheese” I told myself. I was supposed to buy this whole chunk of mature cheddar cheese but realized that I don’t have a cheese grater and so I just took a packet of grated mature cheddar cheese instead. This girl next to me was buying the same thing as well but don’t actually know what to get. She then asked me ”what is the difference between these two ” Apologizing at the same time and pointing two packets of grated cheese: one saying full fat cheese and the other half fat cheese. I looked at her with complete amazement and answered ”I think that half fat cheese contains fewer calories and has got fewer fat content that the full fat cheese” .  And then she replied laughing ”You mean to say that this one (pointing the full fat cheese packet) is going to make me fat?!”  .  I don’t know what to actually tell her after she just said that and so I just told her to go for the half fat one. 

She is on the same boat as I am. We had a short chat. She is, like me, living on her own and don’t know anyone from around here. She looked so innocent, so afraid, worried and sort of like a I-am-a-celebrity-get-me-out-of-here- type of woman. She told me as well that she is having such a hard time shopping food for herself, which is something that I am really expert at .  It’s just a shame that I didn’t get the chance to ask her name and number. =/

I went back to the flat thinking and telling myself that I am not the only person having trouble settling down with all these things.  It is hard and quite tough I must say but this is just the beginning. I will get used to this SOON.

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