here we go

thank you all who came to send me off at the airport last sun; it was great to see so many familiar faces and i would've loved to stay and talk to everyone a while longer. there's always dec!

i've been pretty busy with international student orientation over the past week so this is just a quick update to let everyone know that i've arrived safely in york. the extra week has really helped in terms of settling various admin matters and getting used to the new environment.

york is a beautiful university in a beautiful city. at 1:5 (or so i've heard), the campus also has the highest duck:student ratio in the uk (and probably the world).

my room faces one of the two quadrangles in my college.

accommodation is really quite good.

the city itself is steeped in history. the romans once used the city walls to preserve the city centre as a stronghold.

to this day, york still consists of many brick buildings with chimneys.

a white horse

there are actually quite a number of churches in york, including the world famous york minster. i'm going to visit york evangelical church with a couple of friends later, and maybe one or two more in the weeks ahead.

today also marks the start of freshers' week for everyone and the rest of my housemates should be arriving sometime in the morning/afternoon (5/16 of us have already moved in). until then!