I cracked.

So I’ve finally cracked. I’m homesick.

If you’ve read my previous blog post, then you’ll know that my weekend didn’t start out great, and I went home early on a night out because I didn’t feel part of it. But I think that was all just leading up to a few tough days of homesickness.  I knew I missed home, my family, friends and bed. But I guess I didn’t really realise how much until now.

My ‘cracking’ came this afternoon. I needed to talk to someone and fast.

I spoke to my best friend first and that was so good, I spoke to her honestly about a couple of private things and a few things I’ve been worried about and the things that’s been worrying her, so it was really healthy and I did feel better about it, we even worked out how long it was until I could see her. (A month minus 5 days!)  It was genuinely a really good chat, and although it made me miss her more, her coming to visit me soon is impossible because she has her BMAT and A Levels to work on!

Next came my family, I skype my family at least 3 times a week, and usually its really lovely to see them, remind them that I’m still alive, and that I’m managing living without them! And it was today, until my mum informed me that since she almost chopped her finger off at work (A&E all day, steri strips and lots of bandages), they’re making her have the week off as it happened on their property. That’s amazing for her, because since she’s gotten this job, she hasn’t had a sick day off in 8 years and it’s paid! So I asked whether she could come and visit me, because I missed her. She told me she couldn’t…. I’m sure she has a million things to do, and obvious responsibilities at home, but it still was really upsetting.

And I cracked.

I cried, and cried and cried. Now I don’t know whether you’ve done it, but crying whilst on skype can be veeeery awkward, because the people you’re talking to can only watch (and in my mums case, cry too) and not do anything.  

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I wrote that last night planning on uploading it then too but the only place I have internet is in my room, and I was spending time with my flatmates last night.

I feel a lot better, but I think crying it out helped, I spent a long time crying yesterday. 

But today got better, in fact last night did. I had a really long chat with one of my flatmates and sorted out a few things, and that was good. But today I've busied myself with notes and assigments and it's helped. 

I'm going out tonight to a church social, so that'll be helpful :) 

Hope everyone else is cheerful :) xxx

Birthdays and Beaches

Thursday was my flatmates birthday!

We've had 3 out of 5 birthdays in 2 weeks, and the 2 that haven't been aren't even in term! So we had lots of celebrations over the past few weeks.
We went to a place called 'The Greek'. It was loveeeely, its so cool inside! You go into a little alleyway shop front and then inside it's like a proper greek tavern set outside (but undercover) so little patios and stone walls with traditional trees (fake i guess) and fences, and it's so cute! It had such a nice vibe to it, and was fairly quiet which was nice because it was about half 11 by the time we got there, so was nice to relax a little.

I got this from a restaurant review website, but this is basically the main inside bit :)

On Friday night, 2 of the birthday girl's friends came down to stay for a night out...it was interesting.

They turned up drunk, which obviously wasn't a problem, just egged on the rest of my flatmates to join them!

We went to Occy again, and it was good for the first 2 hours or so. But then my shoes started to hurt (as always) but having to look after 5 drunk people isn't that much fun.

Don't get me wrong, I love each and everyone of my flatmates, and their friends, but it was just one of those nights which wasn't fun unless you were on the same level as everyone else.. and as I don't drink, I was definitely not on their level! So I left at 2, kindly escorted by the mature student from my flat, after I had just had enough! I think they left at 3, and by the sounds of it, and judging by going into my kitchen on Saturday morning finding several hungover people sprawled across the floor, I made the right decision.

Anyways, Saturday was so good.

I went to a place called Rhosnigre in Anglesea with the CU. 

We caught the train there, and ended up in a pub for lunch. Finding somewhere to eat for 26 hungry students wasn't easy, and the pub staff certainly did panic when they saw us! But it was literally the nicest food, it might not have been, but I've been living off student cooking (ie pasta, frozen things!) for the past 3 weeks, so it was so nice to have a proper meal cooked for me. I had half a chicken, salad (healthiest thing in 3 weeks) and chips, and it was good.
We went to the beach afterwards, which was beaaaaaaaautiful! 

Ultimate Frisbee was played, a little paddle, wrote things in the sand, climbed over rocks and went looking for crabs. It was so much fun, and really nice to know more people within the CU.

Below are a couple of photos I took on my phone (hence the quality), I'm going to have to back with my camera!

Thankfully, the weather held up until we got to the train station, so it was ultimately a really lovely day out :)

It's half one, and I've been to church and back, cleaned the kitchen and been sitting here for the past half hour, and my flat is still asleep!

How is everyone else? What did you do at the weekend?

xxx

Lecturer's gone wild.

So the title may be a little deceiving.. I just had to comment on a few of my lecturers. I have one crazy one for intro to Business and Management, but he is hilarious and makes the hour go a lot quicker. I have one 5-6 this afternoon, how crazy, but he'll make it a lot better :)
I have an Economics Lecturer who is a less attractive version of Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, if you didn't know!) which isn't a bad thing at all. But I mean less attractive! And he goes over the hour a lot, like today it got to 1:00 and we were all raring to go, and he started on another batch of slides...annoying.

Another one is a little like Sarah Millican. Now don't get me wrong, I love Sarah Millican, she is my favourite comedienne by far, and going to see her record Sarah Millican's support group was one of the funniest expereiences of my life. However, my lecturer doesn't posess her hilarity, but does have her looks and her voice, just a much more squeaky and annoying version. And given that she is teaching my least favourite module and I dread the moment I have to walk into the classroom.

My law lecturer is the biggest mumbler EVER! We had a 2 hour lecture last week, and the only thing I undestood was that he was a twin, and that he grew a beard but it doesn't suit him. Helpful...mumble mumble.

Anyway. Lectures are in full swing, and trying to write up notes, learn everything I don't understand in my spare time and managing to survive is going surprisingly well. I've even got a social life..I know, shocking.
I'm part of the Christian Union, so I have church with lots of students on Sunday, a Hall Group with 20ish of us on Monday Evenings, and Christian Union main meeting on Thursday Evenings. So lots of people :)

On top of that, I'm still going out lots with my flatmates. In fact, on Saturday, Comedy Dave and Dom (Radio One DJ's, co-hosts with Chris Moyles) came to Bangor! They didn't make much difference, they played the same songs as any other local DJ would have, however, I did get to shake Comedy Dave's hand, which made my day! Haha.

How has everyone else's weeks been?

xxx

Uni madness

I apologise for neglecting my blog for so long, It's been a bit manic, with ups and downs, lectures, parties, and friends.
So I'll start where I left off, I've started lectures now, and I've started the proper ones rather than the introductory ones. And one word comes to mind: Panic.
The one's that I've had are REALLY hard. And on a few occasions I have questioned my place at university. Take today's for example, my 9:00 lecture was 'Quantative methods' which just screams numbers to me, which is never good. I have never been made to feel so stupid and little in my life. I mean, maybe I didn't have the best maths education in my school, certainly not as much as others, and I'm definitely not gifted in the maths dept. But she was going through quadratic equations, opening and multiplying brackets and fractions. But when i say going through, I mean just saying 'you all know how to do it, yes?'. But when there's 200 people in a lecture hall, its not the best time to pipe up.
So I've the afternoon in my room with my flatmate (who did A Level maths) whilst he teaches me GCSE level maths. I feel so stupid.
My second lecture today, was so unbelievably boring it was awful. I understood about 2 words the lecturer said because he mumbled SO much, so the module's really going to go well, its a law one too..hard. We then had a law library talk, which went on for hoursssssss, the woman even drew a map of the library, yes really.
But that's enough about work.

I went to a foam party last night, and although fun and exciting beforehand, once the foam went over my head, soaked my through and in my eyes so I couldn't see, it wasn't pleasant. I felt really vulnerable and had to get outta there, wasn't fun. We left early because I got hit in the head, which was painful, and I didn't wanna stick around..

On the plus side, my flatmates are still amazing (esp maths geniuses!) and it's been so hot the past 2 days. Shorts, vest and sunglasses in Wales! A-maazing.

Here are a few pretty pictures I took when I went out for a walk..once I'd got bored of maths haha :)

How is everybody? xxx

UV paint and more.

Last night was a UV paint night at a local club called Ocatagon.

The point of it was that everyone was on the dance floor and then get shot at with paint guns which resulted in very messy painty people. But what they didn't say, was that the dance floor has a maximum capacity and only the first 100 in it will be able to get painty. I have to say, I wasn't that annoyed with not being one of 100 because I would have been plastered with paint, in my hair, my body and it didn't look too pleasant.

However, we did get prepared. We bought UV paint and put it on our face, which looked amazing under the UV light in the club, and wrote our names on our backs. It was so fun, definitely one of the best nights. My flatmate got very drunk and I looked after her for the last half hour because she couldn't stand up and kept falling, but apart from that!
Below is a picture of my flatmates all geared up ready to go. There are loads of pictures but most are on my friends camera :)

Today we went to a fun day, it was better than expected that's for sure.

They had the expected fair ground games: coconut shy, hook a duck, hoopla and things. And the more unusual: bungee jump running, surf board bucking bronco type thing, crazy golf and caricatures!
We did a treasure hunt earlier on in the week, and we came first!
So we collected our prize of £40 amazon vouchers each too! :)
I managed to fail at all the games and didn't win anything!

But thankfully my flatmate took pity on me and won me a little pig, and then I begged a stall holder to give me a crocodile.

And my caricature isn't flattering at all, but hey, I'm not really sure why I expected it to be!

How is everybody else?

I've noticed some new commenters, and followers, so thank you so much for taking the time out to read my blog, and I hope you enjoy it :)

xxx

Bangorian Adventures.

So university's amazing. Tiring, but amazing. Fortunately, my body clocks gotten used to little sleep at 4 in the morning this week, so I haven't been really tired during the days like earlier in the week.

We've done a treasure hunt, freshers fair x2, bought masses of decorations for my flatmate's birthday, and ate lots of free pizza.

They gave out free domino's pizza vouchers at freshers fair and in and around the town, so naturally I have about 10 in my room ready to be used. Only thing is, Domino's is down the hill so that means we have to walk back up the hill haha.
We've started to make our flat more homely, i.e loads of mess everywhere, but more importantly..we have put up a one direction poster in the kitchen so we can stare at their beautiful faces.

Louis is our favourite, him being more our age making it less weird haha.

I'll take pictures of our decorated flat, we went a bit crazy in the pound shop ahah. But it'll be good because the guy who's birthday it is, doesn't know about it yet :)

On to the nightlife, we've continued to go out every night, naturally ;)
We've been to embassy again, a place called Base (which was rubbish, it was 11:45, and we were the only one's on the dance floor!) and Octagon. the night at Embassy was really good, as it was a silent disco, so everyone had headphones and looked a bit crazy, but it was so good :)

Will take more pictures, and update soon.
How is everyone else doing?!

xxx

University Antics

Life is good.

Never thought I'd say that after last week haha. But I finally get why everyone says university is amazing.

Me and my 3 (sane) flatmates have formed a little gang, and we're all good friends. I'm genuinely blessed that I got such amazing ones!

I've done the formal welcome, health and safety talk, and talk about modules.. with the most boring guy I've ever witnessed, he talked so slow, and repeated everything twice, we were in there for 2 hours! And I'm choosing my modules today.

On to the interesting things, I wasn't expecting any nightlife at all, being in the middle of nowhere and to be honest, that was on of the selling points. I don't drink which makes dancing with hundreds of drunk freshers not that much fun. But I was wrong! On Sunday night we went to a new club called Embassy (and octagon and Oscars, but they weren't interesting enough to blog about!) It was a bit of craziness, lots of drunk dancing around me, lots of grabbing and being drawn on. At some points I did feel quite vulnerable with the knowledge that I was the only sober person there and I  had no idea what to do if the touching up of me and my friends got worse. But it all ended fine, we got back at 3ish, and I wasn't mentally scarred haha! 

Last night we went to another new place called Academi, it was cheesy music night, no more explanation needed. It was better, how could it not be with S Club 7? haha. But we were so tired from the night before that it was only half hearted and got back about half 1.

That's the update of uni adventures, no doubt there will be lots more this week!

This and mountains is the view from most of the town and university, bliss :)

How's everybody else? Any adventures? xxx