16/9/10

Today was an early start...had to be at campus for international orientation at 7.30 so got the bus at 7am. Was just about to leave the house when looked outside and saw the rain bouncing off the roads so back to get my rain jacket and umbrella. It was a weird day for weather..a lot milder and duller with some winds but it was the effects of a storm in central America that we were getting the tail end of with rain and winds. There was even an alarm that sounded out in the afternoon thats used to warn the city of a storm coming and to get inside..but i was stood at a bus stop waiting to get home so not much chance of that. Luckily nothing came of it though. But they test these alarms every wednesday at noon.

Breakfast was put on for us at campus then the orientation day started at 8am with presentations of some of the things to do at Ohio and just more info for us all. There are a lot of international students for the whole uni but only about 50 for Fisher College of Business where I'll be at. But the majority ( and I mean a good 90%+) are Asian students mostly from China here to do their 4 years of studying. I was surprised at how many there was and how few white faces there were, I thought a lot of people from Europe would come here but obviously not. We were taken on a tour of the campus and then back to the lecture hall for more presentations and then it was 5pm time to go home!

At night I went to the cinema (or movies) with Sam and Mandi to see Easy A - it's out back home 22nd Oct - at one minute past midnight. When a film comes out here on the friday its first showing is always at 12.01 but for this film it wasn't busy at all but when Harry Potter makes its debut I bet it'l be packed! Showed my roommates pictures of my school to see if they think it looked like Hogwarts and told them how J K Rowling sat writing the books with the view of our school.