St Bride and freshers week

 

This was our first week of real activities! The freshers week, except we are not freshers, some of us have freshers already too many times!
Tuesday some of us went to St Bride Library in London, where we are supposed to be found the next months lots of times, talking to Nigel, our host at the library, trying to explain him what we need for our research! It was a very nice introduction!
Before that I wondered in the streets of Soho and Convent Garden, when I saw this new Apple shop, and I couldn't resist to play with the new Ipad! It's amazing! I love it to go online, maps, and all the apps, except reading, I love books, and I wont take an Ipad to read in bed…
After the visit to Saint Bride we went back to Reading, already getting used to the trains at Paddington. The next morning awaited!
Wednesday morning was the induction to the department, the welcome day.
It was very nice to meet the last few ones integrating our group for Typedesign and also the other MAs, for Bookdesign and Information design, and also the Phds this year, that I was very glad to meet Alice Savoie and Sébastien Morlighem.
We were all day on campus doing bureaucratic stuff and then a social gathering at the department, that lead us to a pub nearby to finish our first meeting of the year with everybody!

P.S.
One funny curiosity, when doing the student card, when of the nice girls asked me what I was here to study, and then she replied, "Is Reading still the only place where you can study that? ", quite funny!  Of course right now it's not the only place, because we all know about KABK Type Media course, and also some new ones appearing in Mexico and Portugal. But still I said, "No, there are others, but this is still the best!" I had to say that!