ADIML - 10th February 2010
My name's Amy, I'm 19 from South London, UK. This is my 10th February, 2010, in which I go to Plymouth ready for a university interview. Includes, lots of trains, a lighthouse, the sea, Nandos... what more could a girl wish for?
Morning face and unnatural light. Goodmorning world.
Time check. Early early. This clock doesn't usually live here, as it's ticking rattles through my brain.
Cereal and The IT Crowd. Getting my day off to a good start...
I contemplate whether today is going to be a good or bad hair day...
After getting clean and shiny, I put some music on to get ready to, and clear the cobwebs from my brain.
Trying to decide what to wear. Something I like, versus something comfortable to travel in...
I decide on my hand-appliqued ribcage shirt. Excuse vacant expression...
Adding a pansy jumper as it's cold. The before...
...and the after.
I get sidetracked by the sight of the sun out of my window. If you'd been having the weather we've had lately, you'd understand why this sight was so exciting!
I pack my bag for Plymouth, it's a pretty long train journey, and I need to be at the university early, so we're going down the day before.
I make some lunch to eat on the train later.
Then waste a bit of time online checking emails and such like.
Things I need to take with me. I will never get used to carrying a portfolio about. Who knew paper could be so heavy?!
Time to go.
Dad offers Mum and I a lift to the train station, we're not ones to look a gift horse in the mouth!
Train station, slightly blurry because I was juggling loads of bags.
Mother and I waiting on the platform for our train to London Victoria.
Editing out some of the train journeys, as one train portrait is pretty much the same as the next! On the tube to Paddington Station.
Just time for a lovely blurry underground photo and...
We're here.
We've got some time to kill before our train, so we stop for refreshments.
Paddington to Plymouth, approx. 3.5hrs.. could be worse!
A cheesy photo and...
...a good luck text and we're on our way.
Time check and a worthy travel companion.
I decide it's lunchtime...
Then while away the rest of the journey reading my book and listening to my iPod.
Plymouth!
Small pause (we got lost...) and here I am in our, very beige room, in the little guesthouse we're staying in.
We decide to go and explore Plymouth...
The weather didn't show it off to it's best, but the people we bumped into were very good at giving us directions!
My shoes start to kill my feet, so I take them off, feeling pleased that I remembered to paint my toenails.
We find the cinema, and Nandos. Plans for later = sorted.
We go back to the guesthouse and I read for a bit. Not too impressed with this book, but it's something to do.
Blurry picture of the harbour on our way to get some dinner.
More diet coke, I am an addict, I know.
This is why I shall never be thin. *sigh*
Feeling almost too full to move, we head for the cinema.
We decide to see Sherlock Holmes, even though we've both seen it before.
Time check (thanks Mum...)
The film makes me smile!
And we head back to the guesthouse for the night.
I put on my serious face, in order to mend something in my portfolio.
Before.
After (it's a drawing of a cassette tape made of tape...)
Time check, thanks Noel.
Do my best to get cleaned up.
Small while later and mother demands I stop taking photographs, so she can get some sleep. I'm glad I don't have to share my room all the time! Goodnight!