Today was a terrible day. But it got better!
In the morning my cleaner came into my room. Her name is Dulcie and she's really sweet. She'll be coming every Thursday morning.
Hmm so when I went to leave the building to go to uni, I slipped on the steps (I blame my shoes, I wasn't in a rush or anything) and my phone was in my hand, so it copped the asphalt and the screen cracked. Pretty badly. I was devo.
So I called Dave, and he said I should go to the Apple Store and tell them what happened and see if I could get it replaced.
Then I went for a departmental welcome for Theology and Religious Studies. There are so many American exchange students. Whyyyyyy.
After that I went to look for an Apple Store. I knew there was one at Covent Garden, and I roughly knew where it was, so I thought that I'd just go and feel my way around til I found it. I couldn't find it, so I asked someone at the Vodafone shop. The encounter was something like this:
Me: "Hi, where's the Apple Store?"
Him: "Turn right"
Me: *looks questioningly for more information*
Him: "Turn right"
Ummm so I did. And I walked all the way to Holborn Station, by which time I'd decided that it definitely wasn't around there, and-
OH BY THE WAY I WALKED ON DRURY LANE. Like "Do you know the muffin man" Drury Lane. It wasn't all that exciting really.
Uhhh yeah so I couldnt find the Apple Store, so I pulled out my cracked screen iPhone *sad* and looked up the map. I found it- turns out Apple is super smart that you just type "Apple store" into the search bar in the maps and they come up- and went there. I had to book a genius bar appointment, and the next one they had was at 2.20, and it was 1.50 and I had to get back to uni at 2, so I booked an appointment for 3.30. I was late. I already knew I was going to be late, so I rushed back to uni, and when I got to uni I couldn't find the room, and was already 10 minutes late, and I was flushed, and warm... and... and...
AND THEN THE SESSION WASN'T EVEN ON. ANGRY. There were other people there too wondering why there wasn't someone official-looking. Someone (a student) came in with their phone at about quarter past and read out an email that said "This email is just to confirm the Management Welcome Session at 4pm at..." GRRRR. So I went upstairs to where I had reception and checked my email and I'd gotten one too. You know what? The email had been sent at 1.13pm. YEAH. The schedule that they sent out last week said 2pm, no one had told us it had changed, and they sent out the confirmation 47 minutes before the original time.
I had a one-to-one meeting for 4.30 with the Study Abroad person (every exchange student was given a time slot). So if this management thing was at 4, I couldn't go, could I? So I went to the Study Abroad office to tell them this, and it was supposed to be open but it was closed. The sign on the door said it would open at 3. So I had to go see them at 3.
I had booked the genius bar appointment without knowing that there was the management thing on at 4, so I was going to be late to the session because I couldn't change my appointment without going there again, which would mean that I probably wouldn't be back by 3 to see the Study Abroad office, and if the Study Abroad office was only opening at 3 I probably wouldn't be able to get to Apple before 3.30 anyway.
By this time I was so worked up and angry that I just went to chill with Berlin at Pret while she ate her lunch.
At 3 I went to the Study Abroad office. There were so many students there. And the staff didn't seem to know what they were doing. They were talking amongst themselves about what was happening.
At 3.20 I got to the Apple Store. The good news is that they replaced my phone for free, no fuss, just signed a thing to acknowledge that they'd done it. SO THANKFUL I LOVE YOU APPLE JUST FOR THAT. Now I'm really paranoid the screen is going to break again, so I'm gonna look out for a (better) case or something.
At 3.50 I left the Apple Store.
At 4.05 I arrived the Waterloo Campus.
At 4.10 I actually found the room I had to be in. I asked 2 people where it was, the first one directed me to a non-existent reception, and the second one had no idea.
The rest was bleh. On the way home at Victoria Station Berlin was like "wait here I need to get something from M&S", and she went to get me Percy Pigs to cheer me up cos she knew I'd had a crap day. She's so sweet! Thank you God for friends.
In the morning my cleaner came into my room. Her name is Dulcie and she's really sweet. She'll be coming every Thursday morning.
Hmm so when I went to leave the building to go to uni, I slipped on the steps (I blame my shoes, I wasn't in a rush or anything) and my phone was in my hand, so it copped the asphalt and the screen cracked. Pretty badly. I was devo.
So I called Dave, and he said I should go to the Apple Store and tell them what happened and see if I could get it replaced.
Then I went for a departmental welcome for Theology and Religious Studies. There are so many American exchange students. Whyyyyyy.
After that I went to look for an Apple Store. I knew there was one at Covent Garden, and I roughly knew where it was, so I thought that I'd just go and feel my way around til I found it. I couldn't find it, so I asked someone at the Vodafone shop. The encounter was something like this:
Me: "Hi, where's the Apple Store?"
Him: "Turn right"
Me: *looks questioningly for more information*
Him: "Turn right"
Ummm so I did. And I walked all the way to Holborn Station, by which time I'd decided that it definitely wasn't around there, and-
OH BY THE WAY I WALKED ON DRURY LANE. Like "Do you know the muffin man" Drury Lane. It wasn't all that exciting really.
Uhhh yeah so I couldnt find the Apple Store, so I pulled out my cracked screen iPhone *sad* and looked up the map. I found it- turns out Apple is super smart that you just type "Apple store" into the search bar in the maps and they come up- and went there. I had to book a genius bar appointment, and the next one they had was at 2.20, and it was 1.50 and I had to get back to uni at 2, so I booked an appointment for 3.30. I was late. I already knew I was going to be late, so I rushed back to uni, and when I got to uni I couldn't find the room, and was already 10 minutes late, and I was flushed, and warm... and... and...
AND THEN THE SESSION WASN'T EVEN ON. ANGRY. There were other people there too wondering why there wasn't someone official-looking. Someone (a student) came in with their phone at about quarter past and read out an email that said "This email is just to confirm the Management Welcome Session at 4pm at..." GRRRR. So I went upstairs to where I had reception and checked my email and I'd gotten one too. You know what? The email had been sent at 1.13pm. YEAH. The schedule that they sent out last week said 2pm, no one had told us it had changed, and they sent out the confirmation 47 minutes before the original time.
I had a one-to-one meeting for 4.30 with the Study Abroad person (every exchange student was given a time slot). So if this management thing was at 4, I couldn't go, could I? So I went to the Study Abroad office to tell them this, and it was supposed to be open but it was closed. The sign on the door said it would open at 3. So I had to go see them at 3.
I had booked the genius bar appointment without knowing that there was the management thing on at 4, so I was going to be late to the session because I couldn't change my appointment without going there again, which would mean that I probably wouldn't be back by 3 to see the Study Abroad office, and if the Study Abroad office was only opening at 3 I probably wouldn't be able to get to Apple before 3.30 anyway.
By this time I was so worked up and angry that I just went to chill with Berlin at Pret while she ate her lunch.
At 3 I went to the Study Abroad office. There were so many students there. And the staff didn't seem to know what they were doing. They were talking amongst themselves about what was happening.
At 3.20 I got to the Apple Store. The good news is that they replaced my phone for free, no fuss, just signed a thing to acknowledge that they'd done it. SO THANKFUL I LOVE YOU APPLE JUST FOR THAT. Now I'm really paranoid the screen is going to break again, so I'm gonna look out for a (better) case or something.
At 3.50 I left the Apple Store.
At 4.05 I arrived the Waterloo Campus.
At 4.10 I actually found the room I had to be in. I asked 2 people where it was, the first one directed me to a non-existent reception, and the second one had no idea.
The rest was bleh. On the way home at Victoria Station Berlin was like "wait here I need to get something from M&S", and she went to get me Percy Pigs to cheer me up cos she knew I'd had a crap day. She's so sweet! Thank you God for friends.
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