What Ruth Did This Summer...

Right this is gonna be an epic post basically explaining everything I can remember from this summer as I havn't blogged for ages!

From the 21st to the 28th of June me and Will went on holiday to the Isle of Arran in Scotland. We packed alot into our week there with walks, bike rides (mainly Will doing those but I did brave it once... and it was one of the most terrifying things I've ever done, fun though!), a tour of the distillery in Lochranza and a day out with my auntie Sheila. =]


At the end of June me and Will and Becky went to Cadbury World which was an incredibly fun day, it's changed loads since I went there last and there's alot more fun, interactive things to do there. =)

Then we helped Robert move out of C Block and into his new house, which is lovely if not a case of cramming as many bedrooms into a house as possible!



Then me and mum and Rob went on an awesome holiday to Portugal, we went to Lagos on on of the days and went on a dolphin safari which was amazing. We also went a place called Pera to this really cool sand sculpture place.




We also spent a lovely weekend down at Chris Harris' birthday BBQ, the weather was good (for the most part) and the food was tasty, we also got to stay out and look at the stars. =]

And the final piece of news is that I've spent the last week tidying my bedrom! It is now pretty much done and looking absolutely massive! Can't believe how much trash was in there though, we got rid of about 12 bin bags from my room!

I'm a terrible blogger!

Oh dear yet another month has passed with no blogging in sight, I don't really have an excuse as I havn't been hugely busy now that University is over for the summer, I just didn't ever feel like sitting down and writing a blog!

I arrived home from Uni on Sunday afternoon and it's quiet here to say the least, Rob's still in York and mum's still working so I'm alone in the house each day, but it has at least given me the chance to catch up on all the lost sleep and make up for a few months of late nights.

I don't have many concrete plans for the summer except for going to Arran on Sunday and Portugal late in July. At some point I will probably go down to Swansea to meet Will's family and hopefully we'll find enough time to go and visit Rob too as he wants to show me and Will some of his fantastic pubs and bars!

Since I last blogged the only really interesting things I have done are go to the beach:




And going camping! It was absolutely wonderful, the campsite was only about 30 seconds walk from a beautiful beach and we found ourselves in the middle of a heatwave, the best weather I've seen for a very long time!





Probably won't blog again until after I'm back from Arran!

Sun, Sun, Sun.

The weather these past few days has been glorious to the point where we even got out and did a bit of sunbathing!


However, now that I'm off Uni and all done for the year, the weather's taken a turn for the worse! Sod's law I think. Hopefully it'll perk up soon!

Oops...

My life it's been a long time since I blogged! I got out of the habit of it over the Easter holidays and then sine I've been back in Bangor I've been rather a busy bee with assignments and preparing for exams. I've had 5 assignments due in since I got back and handed the last 3 in today, now all I have left is an exam on Friday and another on Tuesday and then my first year at University is over!

It's a terrifying thought, and the time has passed incredibly quickly, but I've enjoyed every second of it and am so glad that I chose to come to Bangor, it was definitely the right place for me!

We've found our fourth housemate for next year so I'll be resigning me contract and paying my quarter of the retainer on Monday, exciting times! I think I'll really enjoy living in a proper house next year, this year didn't really have quite the uni experience with a warden on our corridor and towards the end on our backs as well, that's one part of halls that I definitely won't miss! I will miss living in Cefn Y Coed though, I've made some good friends here and despite the warden situation I do feel I was very lucky with the halls I ended up in. =]

Now that I'm nearly done with the semester I'm starting to plan my Summer, with trip to Arran already booked and a camping trip on the cards for late May I can't wait. =]

Sun, Sea and Sand.

It has been a gorgeous week here in Bangor, if I didn't know better I would have thought it was Summer! Everyone's been out in t-shirts and shorts, lying on the grass and going to the beach. We went back to Treaddur Bay on Saturday (photos are on Facebook), our makeshift buckets and spades got another airing and we had a lot of fun. =]

My giving up of chocolate for lent is still going strong, and I'm now more than half-way through! It's been hard in parts, but I'm starting to think that I may actually make it!

Fun in the Sun.

Yesterday was an awesome day, the sun was shining in Bangor (a rare thing) so we decided it was far to nice to be cooped up indoors and headed for the beach at Treaddur Bay. We went via Tescos and picked up some make-shift buckets and spades (flowers pots and trowels, they worked very well!) and headed on our way.

We spent hours building 'castles' and a giant boat (which didn't quite get finished) and then had some ice cream. We then decided it was time to head home as the weather was getting colder. Once we got home I checked my email and discovered that we had been chosen as the new tenants for a house we viewed on Friday night. I wasn't holding out much hope for it as 5 sets of people were looking at it, but the landlord and landlady seemed to like us and I think that worked in our favour.

Just a quick blog really, because I felt I had such a good day that it needed to be shared! Photos will go up on Facebook later on probably and now I'm off to my lectures!

Hectic.

I am absolutely exhausted! I think it's a combination of having a cold, having a very busy week last week and being in need of the Easter holidays!

Last week was crazy because I had my Brain and Mind midterm on Wednesday (40 MCQs, a diagram of the brain to label and 10 essay questions), I had to finish and publish my website (which led to a ridiculous amount of stress due to childishness) and because I had an assignment due in. Now to elaborate on the brackets! Brain and Mind went well I thought, it probably could have gone better, there were quite a few things I was unsure off/didn't know, but it also could have gone a lot worse. The website stress was because part of the assignment is grading the rest of your group, with 100%, 75%, 50%, 25% or 0% and they then receive this much of the final mark. It's there to stop people getting grades they don't deserve, however the fact that each group submits one sheet, and thus everyone has to decide on a grade can cause arguments amongst childish individuals. Ours ended up with two group members not speaking and one wanting nothing to do with the other, ridiculous. And definitely a case of 6 of one and half a dozen of the other I feel.

I did however have a very nice Friday, Mum wanted me to blog my day so here it is! Will went to his morning lecture whilst I finished off my assignment and then we made a picnic in the kitchen, consisting of numerous sandwiches, crisps, yogurt and angel cake. =] Then we got in the car an went to Tescos for petrol (me still not knowing where we were going!) I managed to guess halfway there that our first stop was going to be Church Bay on Anglesey, sadly it was raining so we had to eat our picnic in the car, but oh well I didn't mind. Then when we were done for food it was off to the next stop with each of my questions being fended of wish non-informative answers! Turns out our destination was Anglesey Sea Zoo! I had great fun, and your ticket is valid for a whole week so who knows maybe we'll pay another visit to the fishies. Then we just went for a little drive in Llanberis and ate crisps whilst looking at a rather foggy Snowdon. Then we made an awesome roast dinner, really really good. I made gravy from scratch! Mum has trained me well! =P We had roast chicken cooked in butter, garlic and white wine, with roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots and courgettes, and there was even some leftovers for my lunch the next day!

So a very good end to a rather busy week. =] Still succeeding on lent, but who knows if I'll make it, I'm struggling a little bit now! And in just under 3 weeks I'll be back home!