Mei Grows Tall

I’m newly arrived in Whales, and 6 hours in, the place is feeling fresh. Yahoo! tells me that it’s 63F today, i hear seagulls echoing outside, and though there is just as much secondhand smoke as Manchester, Cardiff smells good – like fabric softener and sweet sea breezes. We took the train in this morning at 5am, rode for about 4 hours, and got here just in time for mum to make it to work.  There were plenty of splendid countryside veiws, and i saw more animals! Cows, ducks, sheep, hogs, and horses.  Next I will have to herd a few. ha.

Up top there is my early morning face with mum snoozing away next to me. I had not a drop of makeup on and florescent lightning never did much for me. However, we got on pretty well.  Cardiff itself is lovely. The city is bustling and the architecture is very distinct and old, but it still feels very clean and small and cozy.  Again, it’s only been 6 hours. The university here, UWIC, is just 5 or 10 minutes from our cramped little room that will get it’s very own post, let me tell you. Today I had lunch with my mum and her coworker, Rachel, in the starbucks cafe of a swanky bathroom store. Quirky, huh? My orange juice bottle was actually fizzy inside, and we found out that the seal had broken and the juice went all bad. Just my luck. I should have figured it out when the juice spewed out everywhere.

The people here just seem really nice and funny – a breath of fresh air in itself. At the bus stop, we saw a guy with cat years and a tail pinned on his rear walk by. the older guy on the bench next to me laughed too and said, “The world’s gone barking mad, hasn’t it?”