I spent most of the morning crisscrossing campus in search of administrative offices. Due to Welcome Week, some offices relocate into the Sports Center (the gym), some are in thier regular offices, and some are in the gym for the weekend, but move back on Monday. At about 3:30pm, I returned to my garage apartment and did everything they needed me to do online.
But, I did get to explore the campus and get a feel for the layout. I set my sights on the location of a meeting I have in a couple of hours- the International Students Welcome Address.
A few things I realized yesterday, however: the drinking age is 18, and this 2000+ year old town is a "college town."
Each dorm complex has a dining hall, which after 7pm becomes a night club- complete with DJ and moving lights. Students walk freely around campus with cans of beer and cocktails. There are cafés in every complex that are primarily caffeine by day and alcohol by night. And at night, the City Center is a Mecca for drunken miniskirts and the boys who chase them. Open containers everywhere, velvet roped lines outside of night clubs, and the clacking of heels on cobblestone.
Yesterday afternoon, I did have the highlight of catching Country Roads sung by a street musician in the old City Center. I can't post it to this blog from an ipad, but it can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/tad.janes
From campus, there is an incredible view of the town. I wish I had a nice enough camera to do it justice, and it is over-the-top-incredible at night.
I mentioned the fortification of the city center, so, I got a pic of that. That wall is on the South and East, as there is a river on the West side of the town.
As you can see, the sun does shine here sometimes! I overheard a local telling a tourist that this is the region with the best weather in the country.
So, I took a similar picture of one from Sunday to compare.
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