Wednesday: It has been a long day - I've been up for 20 hours. The flight from LR to San Francisco was uneventful (that hardly ever happens for me) and I navigated the train from SF to Berkeley without any problems. The 1.5 mile hike from the train station to where I'm staying was uphill the entire way, with me carting a bag and a backpack. Whew! I got my workout today! I am staying this first night at the Piedmont/Berkeley house which is a hostel. It is a big old house - the kind with squeeky and uneven floors, with rooms that have been partitioned off to make more rooms. It looks like a "hippie house" from the early 70's. If I didn't know better I'd think that I'd been here before :) The room is very "basic" to say the least - and I had to put the sheets on the bed myself.
After checking into my room, I explored the campus and the town. The hostel is right next door to a fraternity house....The area around the campus reminds me a lot of the area around Centenary College in Shreveport back in the day. I grabbed me a bowl of soup to go from a health food store and went back to my room for dinner tonight....I've got to study for class tomorrow.
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