Week 15

Hi folks!

This week I reached day 100 of me being here! I cannot get over how fast the time has flown; I am actually really saddened by this as it means my time is almost up. It saddens me more because I feel I am now at better place with professors, building that relationship with them that Juniata College offers; I just hope I can keep in contact with them. To celebrate my 100^th day Monica and I headed to Mimi’s for drinks...again seems like this is our weekly thing together. As it was my 100^th day this lead to the conversation of memories and reminiscing over the past 100 days which to be honest, as nice as it was it was also very depressing.

Day 100 spent at Mimis for 7 hours! 

The White Rabbit

With it being Easter Weekend most people have gone home so Friday was spent watching movies such as....40 year old Virgin, Miss Congeniality, Goodnight Mr Tom and the Die Hard marathon! Yes I watched Die Hard 1-4 back to back =)

Saturday was very exciting as I went to Professor Donna Weimers house for dinner and to watch Dr Who. No I am not a Dr Who fan but it was worth going to see it not only to get out a dorm and into a house but it was so much fun. We had Asian food such as Thai and Japanese and more alcohol, seems this week is the week for drinking! I also got a mug of YORKSHIRE tea! This made me very happy. Donna was concerned there would not be enough food! Think Vicar of Dibley when she ate all those Christmas dinners, running out of food was not going to happen. When I arrived here I was told it is possible you may be invited to a professors house in the 4 years of being here, I assumed in one semester this would not be doable, however, this is event number 5. I feel stupidly pleased for this achievement but never mind it was a lot of fun to get out the dorm and into a nice house. I would move in tomorrow! I discover on Saturday that there is life at the top of the hill and it is where all the rich people live. This makes so much sense seeing as how the “downtown” area doesn’t look very appealing.

Sunday was a lovely sunny day and all of a sudden the trees had blossomed which is making the town really pretty. I would rather the town looked horrible for me leaving so I don’t get as upset but apparently I cannot control nature. Also, the school food here is dire; however, on Easter Sunday they must have ordered take away food and passed it off as their own! We had lasagne which was more like cheese and broccoli bake, sweetcorn and pasta! It wasn’t like The Ivy, but it was hot for a start and more edible than normal.

My life has been overruled by an enormous amount of work right now, I feel the pile is never ending and the deadlines are approaching rapidly.  11 days until D-Day! Yikes! I have one presentation, 4 essays and an exam to do. Bearing in mind at Lincoln I get 4 essays per semester, here I’ve had about 4 per week!

also, signs for "before i die" have appeared everywhere, mine was to swim with sharks.


Tuesday we had temperature of 30C so i spent the afternoon laid out on the grass. Never felt so relaxed in a long time! but then, at night fall, thunderstorms arrived..