Bringing you to Exeter through the power of the digital camera

This first picture is one of our cute narrow streets and many, many pubs.

The second one is of Andrew coming out of the castle of one of Dracula's minions after trashing it all night. He trashed it so hard that most of it fell down and any remaining vampires were vanquished in the morning light. He's got Dracula's heart in the bag in his hand. All clues point to more pieces of Dracula in Transylvania.

Warning- a bit of 'match the captions to the pictures' game required here... sigh, we're clearly blog novices.

The house here contains our flat. We enter through the open archway, at the bottom right and the windows above the arches are the windows to our souls, or rather, our flat.






Believe it or not, the gym is just up this path. So is everything else on campus.



A pretty tree on campus. Exeter has the most trees per student of any British University.
























The Plant: Home to vegan delights and soon alterna-home of Steph.
The famed Cathedral is shown. Andrew says, "I am Castlevania."

UofT vs. UofE

Yo yo,

This is our first blog. I'm not even sure I'm using it properly. Nevertheless, as most of you know, we are here in Exeter safe and sound. Our first impressions are generally great (though personally the jet lag had me a little pessimistic on the first day- Steph).

There are some MAJOR differences I've found already between Exeter and UofT... yes, UofE and UofT rhyme, and both have blue as their colour of choice (fear us, we're blue?) BUT... some differences I thought I'd mention... (I'm sticking with the positive ones so I don't fall back into my pessimism of Monday)

- Exeter is hugely social. Even the big wigs in admin seem to promote the students' social life and the idea that all work and no play will indeed hinder our uni. experience. There are something like 180 clubs. I'm joining drama, stitch (an indie zine that sounds incredibly wicked), possibly X-tv (cooking show anyone?), and possibly moooore.
- Exeter is also VERY supportive- really big on student support- advice offices for everything you can imagine and they actually do help- amazing.
- um, the welcome week included a barn dance? Enough said?
- I hike up a public footpath through the woods for 10 minutes to get to the gym
- our student housing looks out onto hills with grazing sheep
- fair trade is promoted like nobody's business- everywhere.
- the entire campus is on one giant, steep hill

Alright, and thus ends my first blog ever. I have a blog, I have a cell phone, I am techno-Steph.
We hope you will visit us and see the UofE and the Exeter town for yourselves.

xo