Oh hey, I just about got here in time then!
So since I last talked to you I had my first ever rehearsal for Fiddler on the Rood, which is being put on by my University in March. I have to say, despite it not being one of my favourite musicals ever, it was really nice to see it come together for the first time in small pieces. To start with we worked on the songs "Tradition" and one of the famous songs "To Life".
For the record, this is not the version conjured up by Sheldon Cooper in an episode of The Big Bang Theory, I can assure you we were all very sober and we had the words in front of us which made it infinitely easier. I hadn't actually listened to the proper version of either of these songs all the way through before so it was really interesting to see the full song and be able to read the music for it, exploring the harmonies that were produced in the writing. My voice was pretty horrific today, not managing to cleanly hit my higher notes made singing this a bit of a nuisance as I was being asked to reach up there. No doubt that will come back but it was pretty frustrating none the less for the 3 hour rehearsal. Since we did "To Life" second and it was a full male song, the girls, Including Natasha decided (understandably) not to bother waiting around and took off.
After our weekly Thursday rehearsals, it is customary that we all meet up afterwards at our pub sponsor, where the society is provided with a platter of free food, admittedly one of the highlights of my week. I was determined to go because I'd not been able to see a few of my best friends at University until today, so it gave a great chance to be able to catch up with them and we had an amazing time there and so much fun. I'm actually planning a session with one of my best friends I've made in my time at University next week where we will just play on Xbox for as long as we can manage one night and involve alcohol. Just to have a bit of fun together and no doubt it will be a hilarious occasion as well as one that I don't tell you too much about!
So after the food had been collectively devoured by the members of our little musical theatre group, I set off walking back home. Needless to say it was rather chilly and I decided to get a bit of a pace on in order to get back faster. Around 10:30pm Natasha came over and we spent about an hour together before she got sleepy so she's in bed now.
I'm really excited for tomorrow because we have a two hour trip back home sometime around midday. Before that we are making an emergency ration shop in ASDA to have enough provisions for two hungry students to survive the trip! It is no doubt going to be a really amazing weekend that we can spend together. I'm not too sure how much time I'll have available to post and tell you about it, but I'll make sure to when I can.
Thanks for your time reading as always, speak soon.
Cheers
Tim
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Getting back into the swing of things
Nice to see you again!
So today marked the two thirds part of my set of final exams for the semester that had just gone. The topic for today was Stress and Distress and I was not looking forward to it one bit. Being given an hour for 30 multiple choice questions and one short answer essay isn't all bad but there was quite a significant amount of content that I had to learn, making it infinitely more of a challenge.
I mean, there were some pretty big words involved referring to pretty large and complicated books.
So I woke up this morning around 6am for some reason, I've no idea how I managed it but I fell back asleep to awake at about 9 and feeling warm and comfortable in my mass of blankets and duvet that I'd wrapped around myself. After getting myself awake with a shower and sending a good morning message to Natasha, I sat down in front of my laptop and had a brief spell of revision before chilling myself out and calming myself down before the exam with the use of funny Top Gear moments on YouTube and seeing what else that was funny on the internet. On top of that Natasha and I were also reassuring ourselves that it would be fine with the standard sort of reminders like "We only need 40%".
I also got a mark back for a final essay that I submitted for my Psychology as a Science module and got 74% or an A-. This was simply unbelievable and put me in an amazing mood, even more so than the antics of Jeremy Clarkson, which for many people is hard to top. So according to the University marking system, that equates to a 1st in that essay. Natasha was also delighted at her mark of 80% which was an A. So we both were feeling incredibly proud of each other and were in the mood that nothing could bring us down.
The exam today was an interesting one. I was pretty satisfied with the attempt I made at the multiple choice section but the essay really wasn't what I was hoping for and pulled me back. Despite this it is only one module out of 8 at the end of the day and I managed to get through it. I'm still sure that to get through the year will be no problem! So you won't have to worry at all if you were whatsoever. Since then though, me and Natasha walked back through the freezing, windy weather outside with a moderate pace in our step, (despite her best efforts not to bother running!) and got ourselves warm inside having a bit of a laugh together before she went to make her lunch and do a few jobs.
Today is going to be my first relatively busy day back here at University. I'm going to soon be packing for the journey home tomorrow and at around 6pm this evening, I'll be in my first rehearsal for the production of "Fiddler on the Roof" which is taking place in March, as well as catching up with my friends in the theatre society at the local pub afterwards and having a good time.
I should be able to update you again later before bed, but if not I'll be around tomorrow to catch you up.
Thanks for taking the time to read
Cheers
Tim
So today marked the two thirds part of my set of final exams for the semester that had just gone. The topic for today was Stress and Distress and I was not looking forward to it one bit. Being given an hour for 30 multiple choice questions and one short answer essay isn't all bad but there was quite a significant amount of content that I had to learn, making it infinitely more of a challenge.
I mean, there were some pretty big words involved referring to pretty large and complicated books.
So I woke up this morning around 6am for some reason, I've no idea how I managed it but I fell back asleep to awake at about 9 and feeling warm and comfortable in my mass of blankets and duvet that I'd wrapped around myself. After getting myself awake with a shower and sending a good morning message to Natasha, I sat down in front of my laptop and had a brief spell of revision before chilling myself out and calming myself down before the exam with the use of funny Top Gear moments on YouTube and seeing what else that was funny on the internet. On top of that Natasha and I were also reassuring ourselves that it would be fine with the standard sort of reminders like "We only need 40%".
I also got a mark back for a final essay that I submitted for my Psychology as a Science module and got 74% or an A-. This was simply unbelievable and put me in an amazing mood, even more so than the antics of Jeremy Clarkson, which for many people is hard to top. So according to the University marking system, that equates to a 1st in that essay. Natasha was also delighted at her mark of 80% which was an A. So we both were feeling incredibly proud of each other and were in the mood that nothing could bring us down.
The exam today was an interesting one. I was pretty satisfied with the attempt I made at the multiple choice section but the essay really wasn't what I was hoping for and pulled me back. Despite this it is only one module out of 8 at the end of the day and I managed to get through it. I'm still sure that to get through the year will be no problem! So you won't have to worry at all if you were whatsoever. Since then though, me and Natasha walked back through the freezing, windy weather outside with a moderate pace in our step, (despite her best efforts not to bother running!) and got ourselves warm inside having a bit of a laugh together before she went to make her lunch and do a few jobs.
Today is going to be my first relatively busy day back here at University. I'm going to soon be packing for the journey home tomorrow and at around 6pm this evening, I'll be in my first rehearsal for the production of "Fiddler on the Roof" which is taking place in March, as well as catching up with my friends in the theatre society at the local pub afterwards and having a good time.
I should be able to update you again later before bed, but if not I'll be around tomorrow to catch you up.
Thanks for taking the time to read
Cheers
Tim
Wednesday, 14 January 2015
Bridging the gap between University and home
Hi again, I hope you've been having a good day!
So when we last talked, I was on skype catching up with a college friend that me and Natasha will be seeing at the weekend. We were talking about what we were going to do, how is course was going and I was talking with him about our exams. After moving away from home, especially when you move farther away, it's really easy to forget about the life that you used to lead back at home, but this guy is someone I wanted to stay around in my life while I was in a different part of the UK, so to be able to keep in touch with him is really awesome. Since I had been revising until I was pretty sure my brain had slightly swollen, I decided to unwind and vent some pent up revision frustration by playing on the Xbox (Or as I have recently, more affectionately dubbed it, "The Procrastinator"), which now inhabits a rather large portion of my desk in my halls. Being a boy, I felt that to even conceive the idea that I am unable to multitask is unimaginable, so we talked while I played, and my friend shared great delight when things didn't go my way in the game.
After I had decided that I wasn't really getting anywhere meaningful, I decided to leave it, and was messaging Natasha about revision and if she was still sane with the seemingly endless load that we had to do. As we hadn't spent much time together today, we decided that after dinner, we should spend time together in the evening to unwind. So, after I had convinced myself that I am indeed the student chef of legend, I decided to prepare the infamous dish of "Pasta with whatever topping I felt like that was easy".
Delicious.
It lightened up my day to see Natasha, because she always knows how to make me forget that there is any trouble in the world or that revision is in anyway a pain. We spent a bit of time looking over some bits of revision together for the impending exam and then, since my college friends and a girlfriend were all on skype, we decided to try and get a group chat going. The topics of conversation ranged from a broadway musical that I had barely heard of, sung interestingly down the mic by the girlfriend of my college friend, nostalgia about secondary school and 6th form and a rather long and interesting lecture about why I shouldn't drink alcohol if I want any hope for my vocal chords.
But despite all this action and fun packing into an hour and a half, I'd felt a sense of relief. I introduced Natasha to my best friends from home, and they all got along. Short of introducing her to my parents this felt like something pretty big. I just can't describe how good it feels to know that they get along so well. All I can say is that the prospect of being in person and combining bowling and pizza, is one that will make for some potentially seriously entertaining blogging action!
I'm going to get some shut eye now, it's a big day ahead with an exam and packing to take place. I'll be sure to update you more tomorrow.
Thanks for your time in reading
Cheers
Tim
So when we last talked, I was on skype catching up with a college friend that me and Natasha will be seeing at the weekend. We were talking about what we were going to do, how is course was going and I was talking with him about our exams. After moving away from home, especially when you move farther away, it's really easy to forget about the life that you used to lead back at home, but this guy is someone I wanted to stay around in my life while I was in a different part of the UK, so to be able to keep in touch with him is really awesome. Since I had been revising until I was pretty sure my brain had slightly swollen, I decided to unwind and vent some pent up revision frustration by playing on the Xbox (Or as I have recently, more affectionately dubbed it, "The Procrastinator"), which now inhabits a rather large portion of my desk in my halls. Being a boy, I felt that to even conceive the idea that I am unable to multitask is unimaginable, so we talked while I played, and my friend shared great delight when things didn't go my way in the game.
After I had decided that I wasn't really getting anywhere meaningful, I decided to leave it, and was messaging Natasha about revision and if she was still sane with the seemingly endless load that we had to do. As we hadn't spent much time together today, we decided that after dinner, we should spend time together in the evening to unwind. So, after I had convinced myself that I am indeed the student chef of legend, I decided to prepare the infamous dish of "Pasta with whatever topping I felt like that was easy".
Delicious.
It lightened up my day to see Natasha, because she always knows how to make me forget that there is any trouble in the world or that revision is in anyway a pain. We spent a bit of time looking over some bits of revision together for the impending exam and then, since my college friends and a girlfriend were all on skype, we decided to try and get a group chat going. The topics of conversation ranged from a broadway musical that I had barely heard of, sung interestingly down the mic by the girlfriend of my college friend, nostalgia about secondary school and 6th form and a rather long and interesting lecture about why I shouldn't drink alcohol if I want any hope for my vocal chords.
But despite all this action and fun packing into an hour and a half, I'd felt a sense of relief. I introduced Natasha to my best friends from home, and they all got along. Short of introducing her to my parents this felt like something pretty big. I just can't describe how good it feels to know that they get along so well. All I can say is that the prospect of being in person and combining bowling and pizza, is one that will make for some potentially seriously entertaining blogging action!
I'm going to get some shut eye now, it's a big day ahead with an exam and packing to take place. I'll be sure to update you more tomorrow.
Thanks for your time in reading
Cheers
Tim
Giving in to temptation
Hello!
So far in my new venture into blogging, I would have made a conscious effort to have made a blog by now, but unfortunately I've not had a particularly interesting day so I've restrained until I've had a bit more variety to tell you about!
As my second exam out of the three we are due is tomorrow, I've been revising as much as humanly possible and since the majority of the words that I have been revising so far have been roughly around 3 syllables in average I thought I'd better try pretty hard for this one. So far I've managed to cope a lot more than the last one but it wasn't too promising. I'm still really nervous for it but I think I should manage.
It's been a rather simple day today really, I broke into a can of tomato soup for lunch which was quite nice, I was going to get pasta but I was having messages from my girlfriend (Who I can officially reveal is called Natasha as she gives her consent! ) who was teasing me with the idea of having tomato soup, I had a rather fast change of heart and broke it out. Tasting my creation gave me the feeling like an amalgamation of the student version of Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver.
Wow how exciting my day has been so far!
Since then I started losing the will to live with my revision and was starting to have a desire to fulfil my chocolate craving for the day, (despite my best attempts to resist may I say!) so me and Natasha took a brave trip down through the miserable weather to Morrisons in order to fill the hole in my stomach that had been missing for so long. Natasha is trying to be healthier after christmas which meant that she said she wouldn't partake in my chocolatey so in order to not look too bad I thought I should only limit myself to a modest £5. I didn't spend the entirety of my budget, which made me feel a bit better about myself but I got enough to put a smile on my face.
I hope I haven't mislead anyone with the title and think that it was going to be a rather drama filled blog. But no, I'm sorry to disappoint, I was just really hungry and felt I needed more chocolate in my life despite my attempts to be good!
I might post again later on just before I go to bed but I'm just currently skyping one of my college friends who is in University a few hours away from me. Me and Natasha are going to be undertaking an exciting adventure back home at the weekend to meet up with him and another one of my college friends and are going to watch my local team play football!
I'm sure I'll speak to you soon, I hope you enjoyed reading and thanks for your time.
Cheers
Tim
So far in my new venture into blogging, I would have made a conscious effort to have made a blog by now, but unfortunately I've not had a particularly interesting day so I've restrained until I've had a bit more variety to tell you about!
As my second exam out of the three we are due is tomorrow, I've been revising as much as humanly possible and since the majority of the words that I have been revising so far have been roughly around 3 syllables in average I thought I'd better try pretty hard for this one. So far I've managed to cope a lot more than the last one but it wasn't too promising. I'm still really nervous for it but I think I should manage.
It's been a rather simple day today really, I broke into a can of tomato soup for lunch which was quite nice, I was going to get pasta but I was having messages from my girlfriend (Who I can officially reveal is called Natasha as she gives her consent! ) who was teasing me with the idea of having tomato soup, I had a rather fast change of heart and broke it out. Tasting my creation gave me the feeling like an amalgamation of the student version of Gordon Ramsey and Jamie Oliver.
Wow how exciting my day has been so far!
Since then I started losing the will to live with my revision and was starting to have a desire to fulfil my chocolate craving for the day, (despite my best attempts to resist may I say!) so me and Natasha took a brave trip down through the miserable weather to Morrisons in order to fill the hole in my stomach that had been missing for so long. Natasha is trying to be healthier after christmas which meant that she said she wouldn't partake in my chocolatey so in order to not look too bad I thought I should only limit myself to a modest £5. I didn't spend the entirety of my budget, which made me feel a bit better about myself but I got enough to put a smile on my face.
I hope I haven't mislead anyone with the title and think that it was going to be a rather drama filled blog. But no, I'm sorry to disappoint, I was just really hungry and felt I needed more chocolate in my life despite my attempts to be good!
I might post again later on just before I go to bed but I'm just currently skyping one of my college friends who is in University a few hours away from me. Me and Natasha are going to be undertaking an exciting adventure back home at the weekend to meet up with him and another one of my college friends and are going to watch my local team play football!
I'm sure I'll speak to you soon, I hope you enjoyed reading and thanks for your time.
Cheers
Tim
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Girlfriend Therapy. Act II
Nice to see you!
So where did I finish... Oh yeah, I was talking about my experience of girlfriend therapy and how revolutionary it has been for me after one of the most dreaded occurrences of the naive fresher's existence. In case you didn't read my last post, no, there were no bars closing and the alcohol hasn't run out yet. I had my first final exam for a module at university. Me and my girlfriend, both being on the same course were both rather anxious about this exam, as were the rest of the year. Looking around afterwards, you could just detect a sea of unhappy faces and of dissatisfaction with the previous 90 minutes of their lives. But since then we have just been reminding ourselves that although it seems like the end of the world, we only need 40% to pass our first year and it doesn't count towards the rest of our degree anyway!
The next thing that we did was dinner. I felt the distinct urge to have an increased amount of comfort food in my life after the exam, so afterwards, I met up with one of my friends from the University's theatre society and we walked down to the local fast food place to indulge ourselves. Meanwhile, my better half lived up to the label I just devised and stayed in and cooked healthily, despite this noble attempt, she did say she was jealous of the food I had ordered, but don't tell her I said that!
Afterwards we met up and started digging into a large list of things we decided to watch together over the christmas break. Because we are both British and fabulously so, we started with Wallace and Gromit, for the purposes of nostalgia as we both really enjoyed it in our childhood. It failed to disappoint. Despite not having seen it for a long while, it's still as entertaining as I remember and if anyone reading has had the joy of watching "The Wrong Trousers", the evil penguin still seems as malevolent as ever.
In order to spice things up afterwards, we decided to watch the Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin. I know I'm terrible and should really be watching the original, but despite the more modern version sometimes lacking in its story, the opportunity to laugh as Inspector Jacques Clouseau cunningly fumbles his way to catch a killer is too tempting, and the opportunity to sample his attempt at a French accent is too much to resist I feel.
Since then we have decided to tuck ourselves up in bed and get nice and cosy as tomorrow might not be the most interesting day as it is no doubt going to be filled full of attempted revision but hopefully when the revision attempts come short, something interesting will happen that I can tell you about!
Thank you very much for your time to read my post
Cheers
Tim
So where did I finish... Oh yeah, I was talking about my experience of girlfriend therapy and how revolutionary it has been for me after one of the most dreaded occurrences of the naive fresher's existence. In case you didn't read my last post, no, there were no bars closing and the alcohol hasn't run out yet. I had my first final exam for a module at university. Me and my girlfriend, both being on the same course were both rather anxious about this exam, as were the rest of the year. Looking around afterwards, you could just detect a sea of unhappy faces and of dissatisfaction with the previous 90 minutes of their lives. But since then we have just been reminding ourselves that although it seems like the end of the world, we only need 40% to pass our first year and it doesn't count towards the rest of our degree anyway!
The next thing that we did was dinner. I felt the distinct urge to have an increased amount of comfort food in my life after the exam, so afterwards, I met up with one of my friends from the University's theatre society and we walked down to the local fast food place to indulge ourselves. Meanwhile, my better half lived up to the label I just devised and stayed in and cooked healthily, despite this noble attempt, she did say she was jealous of the food I had ordered, but don't tell her I said that!
Afterwards we met up and started digging into a large list of things we decided to watch together over the christmas break. Because we are both British and fabulously so, we started with Wallace and Gromit, for the purposes of nostalgia as we both really enjoyed it in our childhood. It failed to disappoint. Despite not having seen it for a long while, it's still as entertaining as I remember and if anyone reading has had the joy of watching "The Wrong Trousers", the evil penguin still seems as malevolent as ever.
In order to spice things up afterwards, we decided to watch the Pink Panther, starring Steve Martin. I know I'm terrible and should really be watching the original, but despite the more modern version sometimes lacking in its story, the opportunity to laugh as Inspector Jacques Clouseau cunningly fumbles his way to catch a killer is too tempting, and the opportunity to sample his attempt at a French accent is too much to resist I feel.
Since then we have decided to tuck ourselves up in bed and get nice and cosy as tomorrow might not be the most interesting day as it is no doubt going to be filled full of attempted revision but hopefully when the revision attempts come short, something interesting will happen that I can tell you about!
Thank you very much for your time to read my post
Cheers
Tim
The apple of my eye
Hello again!
So far today has been relatively eventful. I had a rather inspiring awakening at roughly 5:30 am this morning which made me question how well the day ahead was going to go. Despite this, I soldiered on back to sleep and acted out the persona of what I believed to be "a good fresher". I re-emerged from my duvet cocoon at around 8:30 ish, luckily in reasonable time for me to get a shower and start trying to frantically revise for the upcoming exam which had the whole of my year in disarray. This would be our first final exam and covered our first module of "Psychology as a Science". I have to say, I don't mind exams normally...
Except when it's an hour and a half and they're expected roughly 6 sides of A4 worth of essays to be handed back to them by the end of it.
The sound of that still gives me goosebumps and I've finished it already!
So upon checking that my girlfriend had managed to persuade herself that this exam was also worth attending, despite most of her being telling her that she didn't want to get up, I cracked on with "revision" and tried to push the panic to one side.
One of the ways I was persuading myself that live was still worth living and this was only one exam was to think of all the joys that could be undertaken afterwards. Therefore a lunch date to the pancake and waffle restaurant/café thing that is on the street leading up to our exam hall was arranged for afterwards to make us feel better and know that comfort food was readily available.
So the time was nigh, we set off holding hands and reminding each other that it will all be alright as we went to the exam hall in the University's main arts building. A few last minute attempts at remembering our revision had no effect as we accepted our fate and wandered on in, to what awaited us.
To be honest it could have been a lot worse. I've actually taken an Undergraduate level final exam in Psychology and came out of the other end without bleeding fingers! I consider that a success regardless of the final result personally. After reuniting with the lady-friend we headed straight for the pancake shop, following the aromas that lay within. It was a really nice lunch and for £3 the pancakes we had with nutella and white chocolate were simply just out of this planet. Oh my gosh.
To update you to the current moment when I'm writing this, we have been in my room and I've been the subject of girlfriend therapy. It's quite good for any guys wondering. I got offered a back massage because I hurt myself a bit on hockey last night, we played a few games on the laptop (no, I wasn't thoughtful enough to let her win, sorry...) and since then I've been just looking into her eyes and making myself feel happy and reminding myself what really matters in my life at the moment. Despite what torment an exam can provide your life, there's always a positive that will outweigh it and she makes my world keep spinning.
Anyway, I'm aware this is getting rather long and I don't want anyone drifting off to sleep. I'll speak to you later and update you again just before I go to bed.
Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it.
Cheers
Tim
So far today has been relatively eventful. I had a rather inspiring awakening at roughly 5:30 am this morning which made me question how well the day ahead was going to go. Despite this, I soldiered on back to sleep and acted out the persona of what I believed to be "a good fresher". I re-emerged from my duvet cocoon at around 8:30 ish, luckily in reasonable time for me to get a shower and start trying to frantically revise for the upcoming exam which had the whole of my year in disarray. This would be our first final exam and covered our first module of "Psychology as a Science". I have to say, I don't mind exams normally...
Except when it's an hour and a half and they're expected roughly 6 sides of A4 worth of essays to be handed back to them by the end of it.
The sound of that still gives me goosebumps and I've finished it already!
So upon checking that my girlfriend had managed to persuade herself that this exam was also worth attending, despite most of her being telling her that she didn't want to get up, I cracked on with "revision" and tried to push the panic to one side.
One of the ways I was persuading myself that live was still worth living and this was only one exam was to think of all the joys that could be undertaken afterwards. Therefore a lunch date to the pancake and waffle restaurant/café thing that is on the street leading up to our exam hall was arranged for afterwards to make us feel better and know that comfort food was readily available.
So the time was nigh, we set off holding hands and reminding each other that it will all be alright as we went to the exam hall in the University's main arts building. A few last minute attempts at remembering our revision had no effect as we accepted our fate and wandered on in, to what awaited us.
To be honest it could have been a lot worse. I've actually taken an Undergraduate level final exam in Psychology and came out of the other end without bleeding fingers! I consider that a success regardless of the final result personally. After reuniting with the lady-friend we headed straight for the pancake shop, following the aromas that lay within. It was a really nice lunch and for £3 the pancakes we had with nutella and white chocolate were simply just out of this planet. Oh my gosh.
To update you to the current moment when I'm writing this, we have been in my room and I've been the subject of girlfriend therapy. It's quite good for any guys wondering. I got offered a back massage because I hurt myself a bit on hockey last night, we played a few games on the laptop (no, I wasn't thoughtful enough to let her win, sorry...) and since then I've been just looking into her eyes and making myself feel happy and reminding myself what really matters in my life at the moment. Despite what torment an exam can provide your life, there's always a positive that will outweigh it and she makes my world keep spinning.
Anyway, I'm aware this is getting rather long and I don't want anyone drifting off to sleep. I'll speak to you later and update you again just before I go to bed.
Thank you for reading, I really appreciate it.
Cheers
Tim
Monday, 12 January 2015
I forgot how much I don't miss running!
Nice to see you again!
I have just about managed to survive the day, having my first experience of hockey training again for the first time since last year. Despite surviving I nearly managed to catch a ball with my face, which I'm not sure if it would be impressive or not! Also I managed to hurt my lower back to the point where all I feel able to do is confine myself to the parameters of my bed and write this blog for you.
Today has been a really nice day I feel. Despite the early start and the following attempts at catching up on sleep, I woke up around 10am looking into the most beautiful eyes that I have ever seen. After some tedious revision, I met up with my lady-friend to have lunch together, in which I cooked my student speciality.
Cheesey Pasta! (Or Pasta with grated cheese on the top. It's good, I promise you!)
I know what you're thinking, you can't possibly get anymore wined and dined than that. You'd be wrong. We also had some cost effective water to drink. We had a lot of fun though, we've watched a bit of Top Gear together, quite a few YouTube videos and we even managed to play a few games together that I found online that were football and basketball related. It was a drama filled set of matches let me tell you. Own goals were everywhere and controversy was rife but in the end, I emerged the champion.
(Shhhh, it was very close though)
Since then, much revision has been attempted with relatively little success until 8pm when it became time for hockey training! My captain is notoriously keen on his fitness and it's customary to have a 40 minute fitness session each training for each team. It was surprisingly light this week with our run but was still not very pleasant, presumably no thanks to the vast amounts of turkey and chocolate I've managed to inhale over the last few weeks! So anyway, after returning from our "light jog" to the astroturf where we were told we would be playing a game next, my requests to a divine god to be swallowed up into the ground or for a few minutes of slight rest were seemingly denied, and we put on shinpads, got our sticks and got to it. Luckily, the team are all boys, and as such weren't in the mood for the first training back to be super keen. So as this was the case, we split into people who wanted to play hockey on half of the pitch while the others played football. That was good fun and we finished early so all in all, it could have been a lot worse.
In retrospect, I think the worst part was the £55 I had to shell out for a set of kit! Oh well, I've yet to work out what percentage that will be of the student loan but I'm not sure I'd like to know.
So after having a shower I'm just lying in bed now waiting to fall asleep before a daunting midday terror of an exam tomorrow, I have my doubts but I'll let you know how it goes. I wonder if a tear stained blog is possible at all?
Thanks for taking the time to read, I really appreciate it
Cheers
Tim
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