At Newcastle!
Hello everybody, this is to let you all know that I’ve arrived safely and am currently doing just fine in Newcastle, UK!
My trip to Newcastle was great. I had a five-hour stop at London’s reputable Heathrow airport, one of the world’s largest airports, which was such a nice opportunity to look around. I’ve wandered for hours but couldn’t see but a tiny portion of the airport. Heathrow is so big that people use metros to travel from one terminal to another!
My flight to Newcastle was a little bit delayed so I arrived late, unpacked and fell to bed. I woke up the next morning and took a walk around, checking up the places and the routes. My WLAN-equipped mobile phone and Google Maps are really doing me a great service here; I can locate any place and determine the best route to it with only few clicks on my mobile phone! :D
Anyway, I’ve been staying in hotels ever since I arrived, looking for somewhere to stay while I finish my Masters. Today I finally signed a contract governing my accommodation for the next year; I’ll be staying in a shared flat with five other international students.
Newcastle is such a great place to live in; there are endless things that I envy the people here for; the weather is great, there are almost no traffic jams and there are many green spaces around.
The town structure is very well planned, organized and friendly for first-timers. The rules that administer this place are so sensible that breaking them will simply do nobody any good!
The town can truly be described as “International” because of the great population of International students, workers and residents. Everybody here is friendly because they all realize that they live in a city that brings together a large number of nationalities from all over the world. Even the town locals appreciate this unique feature of their city and are actually happy about having such a variety of people around.
Anyway, I still have a couple of interesting “incidents” that I want to tell you about, in addition to the university … oh the university! (needs a post on its own!) but I’ll leave these for the next posts!
Upcoming events …
Ghaith gets invited by a Spanish guy to a Thursday evening in a bar and he comes over. What happens?
Ghaith is wondering around in a desolate part of the city at night and a girl gets almost ran-over trying to get to him from the other side of the road while yelling “Hey! Hey!”. What does she want?
My trip to Newcastle was great. I had a five-hour stop at London’s reputable Heathrow airport, one of the world’s largest airports, which was such a nice opportunity to look around. I’ve wandered for hours but couldn’t see but a tiny portion of the airport. Heathrow is so big that people use metros to travel from one terminal to another!
My flight to Newcastle was a little bit delayed so I arrived late, unpacked and fell to bed. I woke up the next morning and took a walk around, checking up the places and the routes. My WLAN-equipped mobile phone and Google Maps are really doing me a great service here; I can locate any place and determine the best route to it with only few clicks on my mobile phone! :D
Anyway, I’ve been staying in hotels ever since I arrived, looking for somewhere to stay while I finish my Masters. Today I finally signed a contract governing my accommodation for the next year; I’ll be staying in a shared flat with five other international students.
Newcastle is such a great place to live in; there are endless things that I envy the people here for; the weather is great, there are almost no traffic jams and there are many green spaces around.
The town structure is very well planned, organized and friendly for first-timers. The rules that administer this place are so sensible that breaking them will simply do nobody any good!
The town can truly be described as “International” because of the great population of International students, workers and residents. Everybody here is friendly because they all realize that they live in a city that brings together a large number of nationalities from all over the world. Even the town locals appreciate this unique feature of their city and are actually happy about having such a variety of people around.
Anyway, I still have a couple of interesting “incidents” that I want to tell you about, in addition to the university … oh the university! (needs a post on its own!) but I’ll leave these for the next posts!
Upcoming events …
Ghaith gets invited by a Spanish guy to a Thursday evening in a bar and he comes over. What happens?
Ghaith is wondering around in a desolate part of the city at night and a girl gets almost ran-over trying to get to him from the other side of the road while yelling “Hey! Hey!”. What does she want?