Masquerade, Jack the Ripper, and Bubbles
Thursday
The masquerade was quite fun! I had lots and lots and lots of chocolate dipped strawberries, cream puffs, pineapple, waffles, and chocolate. Yes, I dipped chocolate in chocolate, and it was delicious.
I placed in the mask competition- I got some body lotion for tying for fourth. I wanted third place so I could get the giant maltesers egg. Which is pretty cool.
Friday
I had classes as usual, and Actuarial wasn't very exciting this time 'round. Our Diff Eq professor told us that lecture would be cancelled Monday morning (yay!) and that Tuesday would be useful for revision.
Emma came over, and she, Ha and I went to get fish and chips from the place near Tower Hill, and then we went on the Jack the Ripper walking tour, which was pretty cool and interesting and makes me a little sketched out to go walking around the East End at night (which, come to think about it, I wasn't planning to do on my own anytime soon anyways). We ran across this huge group of people wearing bandanas and playing some sort of manhunt type game, which was interesting. Also, down a backstreet, there was a loud bang and flash whilst some people were closing down a shop, but it freaked our tour guide out and made her really nervous, so she started looking around anxiously.
After the tour, we went to the New Globe and got a round of drinks and chilled. It was really cool to have us hanging out in London, especially at a time we normally wouldn't see each other.
Saturday
After walking Ha to the tube, I went back to bed for a bit, and then got up and met Emma and her parents at the British Museum. We got lunch, which was yummy and fun, and then I said goodbye at the tube station and went back to campus.
I did some work and accidentally fell asleep; my friends and I were supposed to go to a comedy club, but they got back late from a day trip to Canterbury so that fell through, which resulted in a lovely lazy evening for me.
Sunday
I learned how to make curry with pineapple in it; it was SO DELICIOUS. I love curry.
I don't remember what else happened. I think I just studied. And finished my coursework.
Monday
Classes per usual; I also had my architecture slide test, which was pretty easy, and I got back my architecture paper, which I did really well on, which made me happy.
We Brick Laned it after classes, and got a normal deal that was really not much to brag about, but the cheese nan was SO GOOD at the place we went to (there was cheese all on the inside of the nan, yumyumyum). We went to Hayfields after that- I'm starting to get a lot better at pool, man. Someof my Brit friends and I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall after that, so I went to bed pretty late, but it was fun.
Tuesday
After sleeping in a bit, I did some work and went to Diff Eq, where our professor promptly announced that this would NOT be a revision lecture, as he does not do those, so I wasted an hour of my life sitting in the classroom whilst he gave 'study tips' (ie, do what I do to study. Thanks for the advice).
After figuring out hostels and trains with Keener, I went to a pizza party for study abroad students for some free food and lots and lots of soda (I was pretty over-caffeinated), and a free tee-shirt, which was awesome.
I discovered an addicting game in the library- Bubbles. It's the first game that comes up when you google bubbles, and it is fabulously addictive. I'm getting so good at it.
Wednesday
After making more delicious 'chicken malaya,' I got the rest of my research done for my paper, so tomorrow will be decently straightforward- just compile it so it looks like a paper.
I went to the acrobatics gym again today, and didn't really get any better at anything, though I did discover that I can do entrechat sixes alarmingly easily on the trampoline (big surprise, I know), and tried to teach Hassan. He was pretty crap at it, predictably, since he's never even done a changement. (Entrechat six is a small jump with your feet close together, and the right foot starts in front and goes back-front-back-land. A changement is where you do a small jump and your feet change positions.)
After buying some food at ASDA, we returned to campus, where I have since watched a couple episodes of TV shows and generally unwound before I go to bed.
The masquerade was quite fun! I had lots and lots and lots of chocolate dipped strawberries, cream puffs, pineapple, waffles, and chocolate. Yes, I dipped chocolate in chocolate, and it was delicious.
I placed in the mask competition- I got some body lotion for tying for fourth. I wanted third place so I could get the giant maltesers egg. Which is pretty cool.
Friday
I had classes as usual, and Actuarial wasn't very exciting this time 'round. Our Diff Eq professor told us that lecture would be cancelled Monday morning (yay!) and that Tuesday would be useful for revision.
Emma came over, and she, Ha and I went to get fish and chips from the place near Tower Hill, and then we went on the Jack the Ripper walking tour, which was pretty cool and interesting and makes me a little sketched out to go walking around the East End at night (which, come to think about it, I wasn't planning to do on my own anytime soon anyways). We ran across this huge group of people wearing bandanas and playing some sort of manhunt type game, which was interesting. Also, down a backstreet, there was a loud bang and flash whilst some people were closing down a shop, but it freaked our tour guide out and made her really nervous, so she started looking around anxiously.
After the tour, we went to the New Globe and got a round of drinks and chilled. It was really cool to have us hanging out in London, especially at a time we normally wouldn't see each other.
Saturday
After walking Ha to the tube, I went back to bed for a bit, and then got up and met Emma and her parents at the British Museum. We got lunch, which was yummy and fun, and then I said goodbye at the tube station and went back to campus.
I did some work and accidentally fell asleep; my friends and I were supposed to go to a comedy club, but they got back late from a day trip to Canterbury so that fell through, which resulted in a lovely lazy evening for me.
Sunday
I learned how to make curry with pineapple in it; it was SO DELICIOUS. I love curry.
I don't remember what else happened. I think I just studied. And finished my coursework.
Monday
Classes per usual; I also had my architecture slide test, which was pretty easy, and I got back my architecture paper, which I did really well on, which made me happy.
We Brick Laned it after classes, and got a normal deal that was really not much to brag about, but the cheese nan was SO GOOD at the place we went to (there was cheese all on the inside of the nan, yumyumyum). We went to Hayfields after that- I'm starting to get a lot better at pool, man. Someof my Brit friends and I watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall after that, so I went to bed pretty late, but it was fun.
Tuesday
After sleeping in a bit, I did some work and went to Diff Eq, where our professor promptly announced that this would NOT be a revision lecture, as he does not do those, so I wasted an hour of my life sitting in the classroom whilst he gave 'study tips' (ie, do what I do to study. Thanks for the advice).
After figuring out hostels and trains with Keener, I went to a pizza party for study abroad students for some free food and lots and lots of soda (I was pretty over-caffeinated), and a free tee-shirt, which was awesome.
I discovered an addicting game in the library- Bubbles. It's the first game that comes up when you google bubbles, and it is fabulously addictive. I'm getting so good at it.
Wednesday
After making more delicious 'chicken malaya,' I got the rest of my research done for my paper, so tomorrow will be decently straightforward- just compile it so it looks like a paper.
I went to the acrobatics gym again today, and didn't really get any better at anything, though I did discover that I can do entrechat sixes alarmingly easily on the trampoline (big surprise, I know), and tried to teach Hassan. He was pretty crap at it, predictably, since he's never even done a changement. (Entrechat six is a small jump with your feet close together, and the right foot starts in front and goes back-front-back-land. A changement is where you do a small jump and your feet change positions.)
After buying some food at ASDA, we returned to campus, where I have since watched a couple episodes of TV shows and generally unwound before I go to bed.