Vonfuse(d) Me

Right. So I just melted a small chocolate candy in the same pocket as my phone. Now I have a chocolate-coated phone case, and a naked phone left.

Today I discovered that so far I have only met people from the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan and Finland here (and maybe one or two other countries that I can't think of right now). It's a bit sad that the "international" University is so international mostly because of the 20% American students...

And I discovered that nationalities are often easy to spot. Especially with the Germans and Swedes. Sad to say, but it's usually easy to tell by their rather overdressed or posh appearance, the fact that they have a very confident expression on their face and that they usually hang out in their language groups. And they tend to have gone to private high schools in the UK before coming here.

That confirms two stereotypes I had of St Andrews before I came: Many people are here, or have been sent here by their parents, for the name of the university only, and do everything they can to show that they are something better because they have a lot of money and St Andrews is meant to be the place for them. The other stereotype is that many people who aren't accepted at Oxbridge or decline their offer there come here. Me being one of them...

On a final note: We can share our music for listening through itunes over the hall network here, and with a program we can also download it now. I should have music to listen to for the rest of the term now. And still I always come back to the same old songs...

Time for me to stop blabbering in this very random and disconnected post and either go to bed or get some work done. Or to get that darn chocolate off my phone case so that I can put it back together...

Current Music: Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun