 was watching but it's so hard to get to you it's when you see the sun I see the muck it's just to get where you are so I am here to tell you in between this montage the the truth of what happened that day so I get to the airport at two in the morning my time six in the morning UK time so I get to the lines which I didn't know that you had to do this because I had a layover flight so I had to basically stay I landed in London and then I was gonna fly to Edinburgh so when I got to the airport the immigration lines and it was in the news you can look it up because I landed on September 2nd or 3rd it was a Friday and the immigration line for like four hours long and I only had like an hour to get to my flight because it was like it already took off later than it was supposed to I ended up having to wait at like two in the morning my time in like the customer service line so I was there for like an hour and then I had to go through immigration and security again and I ended up having to wait in the airport for over 12 hours which was not fun so by the time I got to Edinburgh it was like 10 30 at night I got a cab and I had like all of my luggage with me and it was heavy and I got lost I couldn't find my building I found it eventually pretty much every single person I've talked to had like a chaotic thing happen at the airport so just be aware of this gave like give yourself enough time when you book your flight to like make sure you don't get stuck in that situation because that was definitely not fun so the first night I decided to compartmentalize what I had just done and get myself organized I made my bed unpacked my suitcase so I could feel just like a little more settled this honestly helped so much the first couple of days because it established the dorm room more of like my own little home away from home then I ate a very nutritious dinner of a protein bar while I stared out the window and continued my crisis this first week has been honestly so exciting and fun and I have definitely filled it up with a ton of more socializing events than I initially thought so after a year of the pandemic I've honestly been really surprised at my abilities to talk to people again it feels so weird doing this now so I just had my first day and it was really good it was kind of weird because like obviously last night I did kind of panic because like when you moved into a country and it's you've been up for 36 hours like something just clicks we're like was this the biggest mistake of my life and I ordered the dorm sheets and they're literally paper so I went to go get myself some sheets today because I think I'm spending the whole entire year here so I'm like I definitely should invest in like something that is not paper to sleep on so I went to I forgot the name of the store Jay Lewis is that what it was I had to walk all the way downtown um which it actually was a pretty good walk I walked about like 12 miles today and I hadn't liked this really cute place and I just like happened to find myself in like all these little little places and it was just really it was really fun all in all a very good first day I think I start meeting people like maybe tomorrow or something I'm not sure but oh I forgot I also bought a pillow I brought this from home this one was it's a little sad that's my winter coat as you can see I'm new here and none of the brands are like what we have at home so I did my best to like some of them are the same but some of them are completely different so I feel better about like getting myself like really set up because the last couple days I've been like seeing the city yesterday like met like a bunch of other international students and um it's been a little bit chaotic so spending a little time like getting my life together is very much needed for like my mental sanity first of all big tub syrupy I usually use C to fill but I think it usually does the same thing I have I got this body wash I don't know how it's gonna turn out but it looks like just normal like I'm just looking for like soap because I can't use bar soap in this shower because it's like a shared bathroom shower I'm gonna try that I did get myself some digestives um because I had these on vacation a couple years ago my mom loves them and you know what they're they're excellent this particular morning I woke up and I took myself on a walk to gray fire's Kirk yard it's already one of my favorite places in Edinburgh the graveyard has a view of the castle and it's just a really peaceful place to sit so I walked myself down to get breakfast at a cute cafe called the milkman where I got myself an americano and a pumpkin which was so good I can't describe with words it was it was just incredible so week one is done um it has been actually so crazy so I'm talking really quiet because the walls are so thin here I can hear like literally everything that goes on but um it has been about a week and everybody has moved into my building and they're all freshmen which is really funny um so they are all like going crazy and I just learned about Freshers Week this year or this this week literally I'm sort of getting to experience that firsthand without like actually having to experience it yeah it's been a really weird first week you know they talk about like the highs and lows of like study abroad the epic highs and lows of high school football and it's definitely true like there have been some moments this week where I'm like so like kind of overwhelmed and frustrated like today I was really trying to find film tax and I went to like five different stores to find it and I walked so much I've been walking like almost over 10 miles every day but then I have some days where I'm like I'm feeling good like I'm really like trying to put myself out there and like being out in the world again is so weird and it's also different and weird because like I'm in another country so it just like adds a whole another layer to it but yeah it's it's good it feels really good to be out in the world and um you know it it's easy to see this as like a trip but it's really like a long-term like moment for me one one could say as eloquently put as possible I feel like it's really easy to like get burned out your first week um because it's just been like a bunch of international students like kind of running around like just going and going and going I feel like a lot of people feel like they need to see everything like in the first couple of weeks when there's no class and stuff but I'm really trying to like pace myself and you know take those moments because I definitely am more introverted so like I haven't really putting myself out there but like taking those moments to like watch my favorite tv show from home or like sit in a cafe that I really wanted to go to and you know get up early and go for a walk because that's just like what I love it's um it's definitely a good tip for like coping with this first week because it's definitely a lot and I know me coping in like a bad way because it's all it's all very exciting but I feel like it can be overwhelming for sure yeah this is sort of like my first week so yeah it won't well