Open House

Every Thursday night at 9 our houseparent’s invite all of Morgannwg (all 46 of us at the moment) into their house for a few hours of socialising and eating. There’s a rota in who makes what food, last night Christian from Malta made fried ice cream. In reality Sam (from Devon) and I decided that it was basically corn-flake-ice cream, not necessarily a bad thing. It was a great few hours where everyone was just sitting on the sofas and around the dining room table and having really interesting conversations. I stopped for a moment and looked around and realized how close the first and second years had gotten already after about 11 days.

I was talking with Ameed from Palestine and Sara from Jordan about how you would spell my name in Arabic. They were writing it out on a piece of paper and I asked for ‘Abigail’ but the strong A in Gail doesn’t actually exist so they were bickering in Arabic about which would be the best alternative. I was fascinated and bewildered. I think they agreed in the end, not sure who was right but I have the piece of paper with my name!

Our houseparent’s also having three great kids who were wondering around as well speaking some things in Norwegian and others in English. They kept making me laugh they were so cute following one another around.

Our open houses are supposedly the best (said by a true and faithful Morgannwg-er). We did have other students from different houses coming in at the end as well!