Ok, so packing was a little tricky as Thomas Cook count a laptop bag as your one piece of hand luggage but luckily my amazing North Face bag has a special laptop compartment, although when I went through security at Gatwick, I had to remove it, which was a pain.
The flight: - Well, we were delayed for ages on the ground because the engineers had to fix some fitting in the cabin, but we were only half an hour late when we arrived, which was cool. The in flight entertainment was a bit crappy. It was the same stuff on a continual loop and they didn't list start times so it was a bit hit and miss. There was, however, an entire radio station dedicated to David Bowie :D The food was awesome and we all got a free bottle of water. For dinner I had a vegetable curry with cous cous (and the usual crackers and stuff) and tea was two finger sandwiches and a scone with cream and jam. I was sat next to Kathleen and Ian, a couple from Vancouver Island. They were really nice and were giving me loads of tips. They helped me with my luggage and offered to go with me on the Skytrain to make sure I got there ok! They also taught me the Canadian slang for different amounts of money, the best being that $1 is called a loonie and a $2 is called a twoonie (pronounced toonie!)
In a spectacular moment of epic stupidity, I lost my passport at the airport. It happened like this...
...on the plane they gave us photocopied immigration cards to fill in and then obviously the Canadian officials were like, no. So we had to fill them in when we arrived so I put the stuff I was carrying on the table so I could fill it in and when I looked up, my passport was gone! I went and found a member of staff and they said it'd been handed in so I got escorted right to the front of security to collect and basically skipped ahead of the entire queue. Sometimes bad shit turns out to be good lol.
So I got a cab to Vanier and got myself moved in. The floor RA knocked on our doors and about 10 of us went down for the first meal together. I had salad which I somewhat drowned in balsamic vinegar but I was nice. I didn't want anything big as I'd eaten on the plane. After the meal we had a joint floor meeting with floor 6 and I got to know a few people there, including a guy from Oxford called Henry. He's 18, fresh out of boarding school and very cocksure, but it was nice to meet someone from the UK and he is a professional magician/mentalist so he was trying out his tricks on us and they were really good. We also played a game called Mafia and had a go of Bullshit. Henry came and lowered my bed for me which was originally shoulder height and I ended up with him, two Scott's (one is the house prez), Emma who is a home-schooled genius who is in her 2nd year here and is only 16 :O, and a girl from Cheltenham called Kate, all in my room, trying to work out why my internet didn't work and throwing my complimentary lime around the room.
Today we've got a cake social at lunchtime and an ice cream one tonight so yay, free food!
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