Fly Away

The new chapter has finally unfolded. After months of waiting, dreading and anticipating, I have arrived in UK in an attempt to complete my law degree. It is difficult to put a finger to how I really felt when I walked through the departure gate. Though wide awake, it felt like a blurry dream: unreal and torn between excitement and reluctance. Everything happened so fast and sudden- goodbyes, photographs and disappearance.  

 

Apart from a flight delay and children singing ABC in the wrong sequence enthusiastically behind me while I attempted to sleep, I was glad to touch down in Heathrow after a 13hours flight. The weather was great: sunny and cool; and the blue sky greeting me was a welcoming sight for a tired and jetlagged person.

After waiting for 2 hours or so, my coach to Bristol arrived. Thank God my school mate and I managed to get onto the coach. We had waited in another area and was slow in getting to the coach. As a result, the coach was rather full by the time we reached and the bus driver said that we couldn't get on anymore. However, he changed his mind in the end-spared us from waiting for another hour. The view along the way from Heathrow to Bristol was fantastic! It was my first time seeing the vast fields with sheeps/horses in them against the setting of a blue sky. How beautiful! The contrast in the colours was outstanding and very pretty. Too bad I wasn't sitting beside the window and I was really really really tired - ended sleeping for most of the two hour bus ride.

My accommodation in the Hall was much better than expected. I remember telling some that I was placed in the main building where more parties occur and I was further placed along the ground floor - I had expected a great deal of noise God had sent someone to remind me that all things work together for good - Romans 8:28 (to you, thank you very much for the exhortation and assurance). So while I didn't expect anything, I trusted in God that He has His purpose for all the arrangement. My room turned out to be really nice. It's spacious and has a wardrobe that is too large for me; it's right at a corner of the hall where it's quiet and I even have a view of the sunrise. 

My hall warden had a talk with me and I found out that he had actually given due consideration to my 'about me' description in the accommodation application. He told me that he had a difficult time in deciding where to put me...and I am really grateful for his efforts. We had a long talk about many things: God, bible, music, fishing, photography, life, chinese literature...etc. One thing he asked me was this: 'what's the greatest gift that God has given to us in this life?' While I gave thought for an answer, he said it's time - we must be good steward of our time. It was really something very applicable to me...what am I to do with the time that I have here? Anyway, my hall warden is really knowledgeable and well read - even in that 40mins of conversation with him, I already felt as though there's a great gulf between our knowledge: both in terms of the natural and even the spiritual. 

School will probably be quite hectic once it starts proper. I've already got the introductory handbooks to some modules and I probably am going to be nerding a great deal. 

I guess that's all to update for now. As you can see, this post is really all over the place...I'm still kinda jetlagged and i get tired at 9pm here...fall alseep at 10pm only to wake up at 4am. Signing off...