Hello Utrecht

It has been a long 24 hours since we touched down in the Netherlands. I met up with 3 other students in the program during my flights and we stuck together to find our way to the summer school office. We ended up taking the train from Amsterdam where we sat in first class [oops] and had a very nice ticket man explain our mistake to us, but he let us stay there. After arriving in Utrecht we split a cab with another student we ran into to the summer school office. When we arrived we had no idea where to go and wandered around for a while until a student from Montreal who was looking for the office too flagged us down. It turns out our information was wrong and the office didn't open until 12. So we grabbed some food at a bakery and sat down on the cobblestones outside. Everyone started to show up so we quickly got to know the other UC kids. After they finally opened they gave us keys directions and bedding that is completly ridiculous. We jumped on a bus to our apartments just as it started raining. After much trial and error we found our building. We are on the 12th floor in an apartment that is suspended over the ground [the picture above is a view looking down]. Strangely enough there are sheep in the field next to us. We cleaned up and headed back out to buy groceries and things we forgot such as towels. After coming home for a quick nap we headed back out. So far Utrecht is really gorgeous city with pretty friendly people.