This morning I woke up at 3:30 (shoot me) and took a quick shower and then headed to the airport. My flight was at 6:40, and everything seemed to be running smoothly, until I got to Edinburgh. I got the bus from the airport to the city center, although the city center is still a 15 min walk to my flat. So I dragged along my 20 kilo bag in the sludge that lined the streets all the way to my flat. No need to spend money on a cab or a bus when I can easily just walk right? Well I got to my flat alright, first bad sign: the elevator is broken. Now normally I wouldn't care because I never use the elevator but this time I had my suitcase so I was a little annoyed, thank god I am only one floor down. Now to get to the stairs you have to go through another door, which is pretty normal for apartments. I get down to my floor and try to open the door from the stairwell and it doesn't open. This strikes me as odd because I didn't even know these doors could be locked. I leave my suitcase and run back up stairs and go to the staircase on the opposite side, same thing, locked, except there was black stuff all over the floor and it smelled bad. Now I'm a little worried. So I go back to my suitcase and call my flatmate, I felt bad waking her up, but hey I gotta get in right? She starts telling me that there was a fire the other night and we aren't allowed in the flats...uh oh. I call my mom because I'm annoyed and I don't know what to do, when I see one of my RAs in the hall. So I run and catch up with him to try and get the scoop.
There was indeed a fire, on the floor below mine. It apparently burned all of the fire detectors on my floor too and so the university said we can't be in the room until it's fixed. Great, what am I supposed to do with this huge suitcase? My RA said I could put it in his flat, which was nice of him, although I just remembered I've got 5 packages of blodpudding in my suitcase that have to go in the freezer...hmmm....(that will be my next challenge). So my RA says he will keep me updated.
About an hour ago my RA tells me that I may not get into my flat tonight and that they will have to put me in a room somewhere else. You've got to be kidding me. Now I understand that it takes a little while to put in new smoke detectors but it doesn't take all night! I need to get into my flat, for one thing I have classes tomorrow morning, I need to shower and get my stuff for class. You'd think that since it's the day before classes they would realize the necessity of having access to our textbooks. but no. Currently I'm sitting in a cafe bored to death, living out of my backpack, if you think living out of a suitcase over vacation is awful, you have no idea. What's worse is that none of my friends are back yet. So I have no where to go.
I do feel bad for the people who just moved in though. A lot of the semester students arrived last night and I met one girl who is in the flat next to mine, so she can't move in. That's got to be very annoying.
So hopefully I will find somewhere to put my blodpudding haha....
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