Two Months in a Nutshell

As hard as I've been trying to remember what I have been doing for the past (nearly) two months since I got here, I still couldn't remember every bit of it. I am trying my best to tell you as much as I could remember.

On 29th September, I arrived in Heathrow after my horribly long flight at around 7.30am, went through the immigration customs and got my luggage at 8.30am, rushed to another terminal to catch the coach to the university which was supposed to leave at 9am but delayed (for almost 2 hours...)
And there started my new life.

EY411 from KUL to AUH, the very beginning of my journey

We arrived at the campus after almost three hours on the coach. But there was a problem. My accommodation is in the south of the campus, but we were dropped off at the north entrance of the campus. So that was a pretty good walk through all those steps with my lovely luggage, couldn't really say I like my first impression of the campus!

The campus! We walked from the entrance north of the four towers to the big circle down south

I went to London on the third weekend to visit Dahlia, an old friend from last year whom I haven't met for almost a year. It's been quite a while since I leave London, and couldn't really tell how much I have missed Metropolitan Line, Tottenham Court Road, or even Pret a manger. We went to a lot of places, had a lot of fun and I will definitely go visit her again (and again!)  

I missed London and my old friend so much we had an awesome day in the capital

I've also joined some of the societies in the university, the one I like the most being the Model United Nations where basically a bunch of people represent different countries to discuss different topics about global issues every week. Quite a lot of people have asked me about this, I will probably write about this in details soon. I so far have enjoyed the debate and thought that it is fun and interesting to be able to represent a country and argue (or fight) with other countries. (Looking at you, Democratic People's Republic of Korea!) 

 

This was the Mini-MUNEX conference where we discussed about international food security

With the Model United Nations Society I also went to Oxford for the Oxford International Model United Nations conference organised by the University of Oxford, where I represented El Salvador in the committee of Organization of American States. We had a lot of interesting intensive and exciting discussions about drug trafficking and sex trade in Latin America. That was my first MUN conference and I would say I learned a lot of things, gained some valuable experience and also made some friends!

The wonderful committee of Organization of American States

I am really happy that I have luckily made some friends here already and we spent time together doing silly stuff, talk about languages and shit. Sometimes we do have some quality wonderful activities, like we managed to have a hot pot night successfully (after some one-month of prep time) and invited people from all over the world. (exaggeration intended) I'm proud of ourselves, and I say we are actually quite awesome.

The hot pot night with the guys

There's still so much more I want to write about and so many more photos I want to share but I think I will just stop here for this time. Stay tuned if you're interested in my upcoming posts! See you soon.