Finishing up February and what it coming up. .

Okay my apologies but this will be a quick run down of the last few weekends.


Feb 23rd-24th

I went to Wales with a tour group. It was an overnight trip and we got to stay in a hotel, which we took advantage of since we spent the night in watching TV instead of treking into town in the rain to go out. We saw lots of Wales since we drove around a ton. Got to see the Wales Museum of Welsh Life (yes thats the name) saw some more Abbey ruins and even had an opportunity to see Anthony Hopkins since he had just unveiled a statue that morning and was having lunch in the cafe of one of the castles (Caerphilly Castle). But we decided it wasn't worth waiting around for. . .
Overall it was a good weekend, but I officially burnt out on picture taking so there are not too many to job my memory.

My highlight of the weekend was going into a coalmine. We got all geared up and had a tour of the coal mine and got to hear some stories about it. It was really fun and something I never would have thought I would do.

On the way back we had a trivia game, but since most of us couldnt answer questions we kept getting prizes for getting it half right. I got 2 postcards and a key chain. SCORE!

The next weekend (Friday Feb 29-Monday March 3rd. . aka goodbye Feb. . ) I was headed to Brighton, but had a paper due on the day I got back so I worked hard all week and completed it! Just in time too because I was helping with a fundraising party for the swim team on Thursday night. We all put on our beach gear and put lots of fish and waves on the walls and raised a bit of money for our championships. But I woke up bright and early on Friday morning and caught the train to Brighton to be reunited with Nicole, my friend and ex-coworker from Berkeley who is studying at the University of Sussex- Brighton. She spoiled me by cooking me a lot of good meals and we had a nice relaxing weekend. We had a nice dinner on Friday night. Then on Saturday and Sunday two more girls who are studying at Warwick came down. So on Saturday we all went to this Italian place our director had taken the Brighton kids for lunch and then shopping and finally hit up the bowling alley (where we got IDed. . .to bowl?). I actually won. . imagine that. . although my score was still quite bad. Then the next day we went to the pier, ate some Chinese food (so good) and did a bit of shopping before heading home where we relaxed for a bit and then made dinner. Burrito night! California style! So much good food. The girls left early Monday morning but I stuck around until about 11 and then caught my train home and did some work before lecture.

Yay for a good weekend with a good friend!

The next week I had a lot to get done since it was the 3rd to last week of term. I caught up on some reading and started to organize my media paper. . .which is once again 4000-5000 words and worth 100% of my grade. But I organized a team social on Thursday night so took a break to have a bit of fun with my teammates. But then that weekend was dedicated to do reading for class and my paper.

Which brings us up to last week!
Let's see. . paper. . .paper. . .yep worked on my paper all week.
We had a friendly gala against another swim team on Tuesday night so that was fun but really it was all about getting ready for my swim competition. We left on Friday for Sheffield for the British University Championships. We stayed in some nice apartments since we booked our accommodation late. I shared a room with Lauren who is from Colorado but we shared the apartment with two of the guys since the girls couldnt all fit in one apartment. We went out as a team on Friday night and competed on Saturday afternoon for our division (3 since this is the first year we were a recognized team by the university). I swam in both the medley (of which I swam breaststroke) and freestyle relays, 100 meter free and 50 breast. Yes why breast? Im so horrible at it but I wasn't really given a choice. My times weren't too horrible considering I train for 2 hours a week. We then competed in the finals for our division on Sunday where I DQed the relay. Oops. . .and did worse than the day before but not by too much. We headed back Sunday night and ran into a bit of trouble with the trains since the doors closed on one of the girl's bag but we all got home and all had our stuff with us.

Basically this week has been stressful since I head off for my travels on Friday. I just got my first draft of my media paper out and still have to edit it a bit. I have reading to do for my bio psych class and am in the process of packing up my room and packing for the 4 weeks I will be traveling and all I have is one carry-on size duffel back. . . this should be interesting. I just got my final exam schedule and will be done on May 21st which gives me some time to go to the places I really wanted to go to but didnt fit in like Ireland and Madrid.

I also got my registration appointment for Berkeley but unfortunately the only 2 psych courses I know I need to take are at the same time. And since I dont know exactly how my courses here will factor in I might end up having to repeat a course. . .oy vey but Im hoping for the best and even though I got a bad appointment time at least it is once I am back in England so I don't need to stress about it while I travel.

So here is my schedule for the break:


Friday March 21st-leave for Airport
Saturday March 22nd- Depart for Rome @ 6 a.m.
Sunday March 23rd- Rome
Monday March 24th- Rome
Tuesday March 25th- AM Depart Rome for Florence
Wednesday March 26th- Florence
Thursday March 27th- AM Depart Florence for Venice
Friday March 28th- Venice PM Depart- take overnight train to Vienna
Saturday March 29th- Vienna
Sunday March 30th-Vienna
Monday March 31st-Prague
Tuesday April 1st- Prague
Wednesday April 2nd- Interlaken, Switzerland
Thursday April 3rd- Interlaken, Switzerland
Friday April 4th- Milan
Saturday April 5th- Milan Depart @ 6 p.m. to Athens, Greece
Sunday April 6th-Sunday April 13th- Greece cruise through easy cruise
Sunday April 13th- Depart Athens @ 6 pm to Munich
Monday April 14th- Munich
Tuesday April 15th- Munich to Berlin
Wednesday April 16- Berlin (celebrate my 21st birthday at midnight with a group of my friends!)
Thursday April 17- AM Depart from Berlin to Amsterdam
Friday April 18th-AM Depart from Amsterdam for Paris
Saturday April 19th- Paris
Sunday April 20th- Paris depart afternoon and take the Eurostar back to London



Monday April 21st-Sunday April 27th: Last minute editing of my paper and studying for final exams

Also my exam schedule

Thursday May 8th- Bio Psych exam
Friday May 9th- History- Politics of Postwar Europe Exam
Friday May 16th- Cognitive Psych Exam
Monday May 19th- Social Psych Exam
Wednesday May 21st- Personality Psych Exam

And then Im done! YAY!


I will try to keep you all updated as much as possible as I travel.