A 3.1 Phillip Lim bag
A swimsuit from Triangl
A Penny board
These boots from Acne Studios
A gold Casio watch
Friday 28 February 2014
Thursday 27 February 2014
20
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| Byron Bay lighthouse |
Oops! But this time I have a genuine excuse for not updating.
Let's start from the beginning. Friday evening we started off with pre drinks in the flat with a few people which was great fun! We then headed into town for a few delicious drinks (solero and toblerone cocktails!!) at JamJar. After a few drinks we headed over to Institute for a long night of dancing.
Saturday was spent at home doing laundry and recovering from the night before. I spent most of my Sunday in bed as I got a sinus infection.
It felt like my medication wasn't working so I went to the pharmacy first thing on Monday. I then started to feel a little bit better,which was good as it was my 20th birthday and we were going out for dinner in the evening. The dinner turned out to be amazing! Nine of my close friends and I went to a Japanese/Korean restaurant in town. I ate 6 salmon and avocado urumaki rolls and then shared a gorgeous platter of sashimi with Christel, David, Sofia and Jacky.
Tuesday was crap. I skipped my lecture to stay in bed as I felt feverish the whole day. However, I had to drag myself out of bed, chug a bottle of water and pop two paracetamol to head over to my psychology practical.
On Wednesday I felt so much better so I made it to my 9am 2-hour lecture and managed my 2.5-hour counselling lesson. Well I'm definitely on the mend as I feel a lot better today.
My weekend will consist of writing my methods section for my psychology report, researching for previous research for that psychology report, and some other studying.
Thursday 20 February 2014
Results
Piazza del Duomo, Milano, Italia
The sun is shining and the sky is blue which makes me extremely happy! It was so nice to sit and enjoy the warm sunlight today with Christel. Even yesterday after our counselling class, the sun was shining, although it was nearly sunset, but it made me perk up after the long day at uni! I was in from 9am until 16.30… When I got home, all I wanted to do was sleep, but I hindered myself from that and instead baked lemon drizzle cupcakes.
We got our psychology exam results back today, and I passed! After a lot of anxiety and prayers, I opened up our student portal and saw that I had received 15 for both of my psych exams! RELIEF!! I cannot tell you how awful I felt after the concepts & theory exam… And my answers to the three questions were complete bullshit! It seems that the markers were a lot nicer this year… and thank God for that!!
Tomorrow evening it will be time to celebrate my birthday as well as Alice's birthday, as well as the exam results! We are having a few drinks at home, with a round of Ring of Fire, before we head into town and meet up with some more people and a few more drinks. We are then most likely heading over to Institute for some dancing! I'm excited :)
On my actual birthday, I'll be having dinner with a few of my friends at Yorokobi by CJ. It is a Japanese/Korean restaurant in town, and I hear it's really good. For several years now, it's been a tradition for my family and I to have sushi for my birthday, followed by a pavlova. Sadly, I think I'll have to skip the pavlova this year. Nevertheless, I cannot wait to eat some sushi and sashimi! Yum
Monday 17 February 2014
My fail of the day
I'll set the scene for you before I begin my little story of what happened today at the gym.
The gym room at the Aberdeen Sports Village is attached to a corridor which leads down towards the changing rooms, squash rooms and a set of stairs to the entrance. To get through to the gym room, you have to scan your card to be able to pass through a barrier. On the way out, you press a button to open the barriers and let yourself out. Simple.
Not for me, as it turns out…
As Alice and I are exhausted from our successful workout, we decide to leave and head to the changing rooms. To get there, one must obviously pass through the barriers again, by pressing a button which opens the barrier. Simple.
I walk up to the button, press it, and keep walking, completely oblivious that I'm walking towards the wrong barrier, so I clumsily smash into the barrier (which is basically just a clear, plastic-gate-thing). I then have to turn around and hurry towards the correct barrier, which, of course, was swung open by the button I pressed. Meanwhile, Alice is hysterically laughing at my spastic moment, as well as the receptionists who saw the whole thing. A few heads were turned, and a few strange looks were exchanged, but the whole thing was quite funny in hindsight.
Oh, and this reminds me of this morning. While I was walking down the side-walk, I saw a little pebble. Perfect, I thought. I'll kick it along the path like a football, like I've done countless of times before. As I go to kick the little pebble, I instead, kick the heel of my other shoe and trip over myself. I didn't fall, thank God, but I did feel really stupid. Sadly, the pebble was left by itself on the sidewalk.
Friday 14 February 2014
Friday 14th
Pictures from my walk to the beach on Sunday
I really have to get this together... My blog is supposed to consist of updates of my life, and not just one post a week. I want to be able to look back in a couple of months/years and read what I did at that specific point in time. So expect a few more posts a week from now on!
Since I last posted an update, my days have mainly consisted of admin stuff; reading and responding emails (mainly from my advisor), reading my course handbooks, doing some light research for my upcoming essays etc.
Last Saturday a group of us went out to Babylon to celebrate Alice's finished dissertation.
On Sunday I spent the sunny part of the day at the beach, watching the waves and listening to music. On Wednesday I got completely soaked by the rain on my way back from my counseling course, as the wind was blowing in every possible direction. My jeans were dripping wet, as was my jacket. It looked like I had literally taken a shower with all of my clothes on... I spent that evening in front of Billy Elliot with a cup of tea.
This evening was spent with Alice and Maria watching School of Rock. Favourite line from the movie has to be: "You're tacky and I hate you."
I'm kind of looking forward to this chilled weekend at home. I have to save money for the two following weeks and weekends, as it is my birthday on the 24th, which we are celebrating on Friday the 21st and on Monday the 24th. The week after that, we are going out for dinner at TGI's for Alice's birthday on the 5th of March.
Monday 10 February 2014
Tuesday 4 February 2014
Aberystwyth
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| Hogwarts? |
I set out to Aberystwyth (pronounced: Aber-ist-with), stopping off at Edinburgh Haymarket and Wolverhampton to change trains, early on Thursday morning. The train journey turned out to be a lot longer than what it should have been because my train from Edinburgh to Wolverhampton was delayed by about an hour… Which meant I had to wait another hour in Wolverhampton for the next train to Aber. So instead of arriving in Aber at 17.25, I arrived there at 19.25. Do you think I was sick of trains by that time?
Once in Aber, Helen and I walked the short distance to her cute little house merely three blocks away from the train station. I was relieved to hear it was so close. That evening we stayed in and made dinner and watched a Kick Ass before going to bed at around midnight. I had no energy to do anything but that.
On Friday morning/early afternoon we set out to see the sights of Aberystwyth. We walked around town with the many colourful houses, and took a stroll to the Pier and the beach.
Later that evening Helen and strolled over to Izzy's house for some pre-drinking with the rest of the gang before we headed out to a few pubs.
Saturday was spent in bed. Helen managed to move to the chair at her desk for a few hours, and a visit to Izzy's, but then receded back to her comfy bed. I watched three movies that day and did not move from the bed except to go to the powder room and the kitchen to fill up my water bottle.
At noon on Sunday, Helen and I had brunch at Costa before heading through town and up the long and steep hill to her uni. We took a quick tour of the campus and then proceeded to head down the hill through a path in the woods. Both Helen and I felt like we were hiking in the mountains like we have done so many times in Switzerland and Italy. We felt very nostalgic on the way down that steep path in the forest.
We headed to Morrisons for a quick food shop, and then to the pet shop to look at the cute rabbits, hamsters, guinea pigs, chinchillas etc. After that we headed home for yet another relaxed afternoon. Helen watched the rugby match (Ireland vs. Scotland) and I watched some YouTube videos, before Helen made a delicious dinner of salmon, carrot sticks and mash.
We woke up early on Monday morning, for I had a train to catch at 9.30. Helen took me to the train station, said goodbye and then went back to bed. I got back to Aberdeen at 19.00, thankfully with no delays or too much hassle.
Peace!
Sunday 2 February 2014
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