Late nights, early mornings

Good morning all. I am writing this post from the John's library. The library is a former chapel and is an interesting building. Luckily for me it also has wifi, a surprisingly good history section and is very quiet. I did not have any lectures yesterday and as seminars are yet to start this meant I had an entirely free day! I still made sure I got up at a reasonable time and had breakfast. After breakfast a group of us walked up to the main uni library which is on a hill outside the city centre and about a 10min walk from John's. I managed to get a couple of books and I will start doing a bit of reading today. I am starting to understand that lots of the reading required for seminars and essays will actually be available online. The uni has a very good online catalogue and so many of my texts will be available to read online. I will obviously have to still borrow books, but my expectations of how I'll be working are changing. After lunch some of us went down into the town to wander around the shops and a couple of people had things they needed to buy. Last night was the John's Fresher's Noah's Ark Bar Crawl. We had to let the Freps (Fresher's Reps) know if/ who we were going with and they assigned animals for us to dress up as. My roommate and I were swans, which luckily meant we could just try to look elegant. When we arrived at John's bar we were sellotaped together by our wrists and ankles. We all then had to head to the other college bars on the Bailey (road around the Cathedral) and walked together, two by two! The Noah's Ark theme continued when we played some strange game and the Freps squirted water pistols at us (imitating the flood apparently). The highlight of the night was when we all ended up in Klute (the notorious nightclub) and danced until the early hours to some of the cheesiest songs imaginable! I am going to read a little about Reformation Europe now. I have my first lecture of this module this afternoon but I have a book on a short-term loan and so must return it to the main library on Saturday. Love to all from a cold but beautifully sunny Durham.