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| Just one of the sites of Knoxville |
Friday night was family night at the International house - a chance to meet and have a meal with University of Tennessee alumni and their families. We arrived together so they tried to split the English up ... the other three ended up sitting together anyways, but I got placed with a different family. They were called Dan & Anne and have a little girl, Elizabeth who live in Knoxville and both met at the University. We ended up having a really good laugh and their daughter got to pick a name out of the prize draw and she picked me! Wohoo! So I won a Tennessee t-shirt and a food hamper (thanks Patrick). I was also sat with a girl who lives on the same corridor as me, Johanna from Finland. We had a really nice time and Anne has offered to take us out for lunch this Wednesday and give us a tour of downtown Knoxville which I'm really looking forward to. At the meal they were giving random facts about who was here e.g. representing 30 different countries, studying 50 different subjects, speaking 30 different languages etc. and one of them was that there was an Olympic gold medalist among us ...
She won a Gold in Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics!
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| Amphitheater |
After the fun of that evening, we went to watch The Hunger Games at the Amphitheater, I was expecting to go into a lecture theatre - I didn't know that this meant it would be outside! It was SO much fun and I enjoyed the film way more than I expected to.
On Saturday, the English girls went to a vintage fair that was a bus ride away from campus. It was really fun and we got chatting to some of the women who worked there who told us a brief history of Knoxville, then made us Corn dogs - the people here are SO friendly, you can't go to a shop without getting chatting to someone about something, I love it! But then onto the real deal ... we finally got to the MALL. It's biiiig and has some good shops in it, I think it's a bit of an upmarket mall though, lots of House of Fraser/Selfridge's type stores. I bought a new bikini and got a Hollister hoodie (because all my lectures are freezing with the air con) for $20.
I looked way too special stood in the middle of the shop trying to take this picture for you yesterday, haha join the line!
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| Americans don't queue - they line. |
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| Band & cheer practice |
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| UT campus |
I've got loads of reading to do already, but it makes it easier when you can take it around the pool to do and watch the band practice when you need a break! The campus is really nice too so whilst the weather is still good I plan on doing all my reading outside in the sun.
Still got loads going on and still having loads of fun. I can't believe I've not even been here 2 weeks - it feels like forever and I've settled in really well!
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