OU Summer School: the first day

We left the hostel in Glasgow early enough and went to the train station. I got on a train for Stirling and filled out the various forms in my Summer School handbook. I also panicked a bit. Then I got off the train and dragged my mountains of baggage to a taxi( getting to the bit of University I wanted to be in could have been easier. )

But I got there in the end. I told the girl at the desk that I was with the Open University and she let me have my room key, in spite of being hours early, and told me that I was on the sixth floor and that there was no lift.

( Before I went to find food... )

I set off to find humans and food. I found the woman in the room next to me, and a baked potato. Later I wrote a journal entry ( as follows. . . )

After writing that, I went to the "student briefing" where we were all told not to dismantle the University, basically, and then split into groups. I followed my tutor like a duckling through the corridors and eventually was seated with the rest of my group in a classroom. ( Basic introductions ensued. )