Hey all, Today we went to Cardiff. It is a town about an hour away from Swansea. We took a bus. When we first got there we went to see Millenium Stadium, Cardiff's very large and new football stadum. It was cool looking. There was a football game today so there were a lot of people around. Everybody had noise makers and air horns that were going off constantly. After taking a look at the stadium we walked to Cardiff Castle. Cardiff castle is 2000 ye...

Hey all, On Tuesday we were able to get into our flat. It has a bedroom, bathroom, living room with 2 chairs and a couch, and a kitchen. The kitchen already had plates and stuff like that in it so that was nice. We also have a washer and dryer that is free...if we would have been in student village we would have had to pay £2.00 to wash and £0.20 per 12 minutes to dry. We can also walk anywhere on campus in about 5 minutes...at the other place we would...

Hey all, We had orientation today at 10:00 and then went to the orientation office to get our keys and were told that we couldn't get into our flat until tuesday...so we are headed back to St. Ann's Hotel. It's starting to get really annoying hauling our luggage back and forth. We walked around Mumbles today. We went out to the pier and walked down by the beach where the tide had gone out. It is really pretty down there. Swansea Bay has the 2nd la...

Hey all, Today is the day we go to Swansea! We got on a bus...we weren't sure everybody's language was going to fit. We worked it out. We had a little bit of a karoke contest. Our friend Ellen from tennessee is singing in the picture. It was a four hour bus ride to get there. Once we arrived Craig and I got a taxi to take us to our hotel in Mumbles. Our hotel is nice. We had chinese for supper...the first chinese I have had since we left Iowa...it wa...

Hey all, We went to the Natural History Museum this morning. It was a lot of fun. They had exhibits on dinasaurs, humans, and the earth. They were really cool exhibits. There was a life size replica of a whale...it was HUGE!!! Tonight we went to The Blue Man Group. We had a blast. They do a lot of crowd participation. We had to wear plastic ponchos because we were in what they call the "splash zone" nothing ever splashed on us but we sure thou...