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!
Wednesday, 13 May 2009
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!
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!
Wednesday, 6 May 2009
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. =]
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. =]
Sunday, 22 March 2009
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!
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!
Monday, 16 March 2009
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!
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!
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
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!
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!
Friday, 27 February 2009
I'm still alive!
My life it’s been a long time since I’ve blogged! In my defence University is a little crazy at the moment and I have also had a very intermittent Internet connection for well over a week now and that’s getting very irritating.
On Wednesday I took part in a skills session on the brain, it involved watching 3D movies, looking at fMRI scans and looking at human brains, that’s right real human brains! I got to hold one of the full, intact brains in my hands and it was a really cool experience, sobering but amazing. It was strange to think that not long ago someone was using what I had in my hands to live their life, that it made them who they were and allowed them to function, and that the small (but surprisingly weighty) thing allows us to do so much. Oliver Turnbull, the head of the school of Psychology put it well “The brain is a strange thing, you don’t really realise that you have one until you hold someone else’s in your hands” and he’s right, I’d never really sat and thought about my brain and everything it does, it was a very strange thing to experience.
The workshop was amazing though, I got to push my finger into the hemispheric fissure and touch the corpus callosum (which holds our hemispheres together) I literally had my finger inside someone else’s brain! The event involved 4 ‘stations’ the first I was at we looked at slices of brain that had been slightly plastically coated, still real but not very brain looking, we also saw slices of brains that were suffering from tumours and haemorrhages it was very interesting to see. The next station was the actual whole brain, the professor pointed out different bits and we talked about their functions and then the brain was passed around so that we could all get a feel of what it was like, very cool indeed! The next station was Guillaume’s one and we looked at a brain and saw inside using 3D glasses, it allowed you to have a good idea of where things sat as different pieces of the brain were taken away, something that’s very hard to do in real life. The final station was led by Oliver Turnbull, and he had several different hemispheres and lobes from various brains and showed us different parts inside the brain, as opposed to just the outside. We finished on this table a little early so he decided to split us in half and quiz us by pointing to bits of the brain and getting us to name them. My team won, and I identified 2 out of the 3 parts successfully so I take some pride in our victory!
I had a bit of a blonde moment in the brain workshop though, there were names written on the each table and the first one I went to had the name and the plate with the brain on was right above it, so I assumed that this was the name of the person whose brain it was. I then moved onto the next table and it said Giovanni (esteemed neurologist) and I thought it was a little odd that this guy had been a neurologist too as the last one had said the same. It wasn’t until I got to the final table and saw the words ‘Oliver Turnbull (head of school!!!)’ that I realised they weren’t the name of the person whose brain it was but in fact the person who was talking to us… smooth.
Anyway, enough of the brain stuff this blog is going to be huge! I’m really busy right now as I have two deadlines next week and a midterm exam on Wednesday so I’m rushing around like a blue-arsed fly trying to get everything finished and get some revision done!
I got my exam results back the other week and I got an A- in Positive Psychology and a C in Clinical and Health so I’m very pleased with that, I also got a letter from the head of school congratulating me on a good first semester and all my grades so far, so that made me very happy indeed!
In non-work related news we came first in the pub quiz in Bar Uno last week winning £30 and second this week winning £8, so that’s been good fun. It’s nice going out as a flat every week because before we did all get on very well but only a few of us really socialised outside of halls.
Right I’ve rambled on for long enough now! Hopefully I won’t ever leave it this long to blog again!
On Wednesday I took part in a skills session on the brain, it involved watching 3D movies, looking at fMRI scans and looking at human brains, that’s right real human brains! I got to hold one of the full, intact brains in my hands and it was a really cool experience, sobering but amazing. It was strange to think that not long ago someone was using what I had in my hands to live their life, that it made them who they were and allowed them to function, and that the small (but surprisingly weighty) thing allows us to do so much. Oliver Turnbull, the head of the school of Psychology put it well “The brain is a strange thing, you don’t really realise that you have one until you hold someone else’s in your hands” and he’s right, I’d never really sat and thought about my brain and everything it does, it was a very strange thing to experience.
The workshop was amazing though, I got to push my finger into the hemispheric fissure and touch the corpus callosum (which holds our hemispheres together) I literally had my finger inside someone else’s brain! The event involved 4 ‘stations’ the first I was at we looked at slices of brain that had been slightly plastically coated, still real but not very brain looking, we also saw slices of brains that were suffering from tumours and haemorrhages it was very interesting to see. The next station was the actual whole brain, the professor pointed out different bits and we talked about their functions and then the brain was passed around so that we could all get a feel of what it was like, very cool indeed! The next station was Guillaume’s one and we looked at a brain and saw inside using 3D glasses, it allowed you to have a good idea of where things sat as different pieces of the brain were taken away, something that’s very hard to do in real life. The final station was led by Oliver Turnbull, and he had several different hemispheres and lobes from various brains and showed us different parts inside the brain, as opposed to just the outside. We finished on this table a little early so he decided to split us in half and quiz us by pointing to bits of the brain and getting us to name them. My team won, and I identified 2 out of the 3 parts successfully so I take some pride in our victory!
I had a bit of a blonde moment in the brain workshop though, there were names written on the each table and the first one I went to had the name and the plate with the brain on was right above it, so I assumed that this was the name of the person whose brain it was. I then moved onto the next table and it said Giovanni (esteemed neurologist) and I thought it was a little odd that this guy had been a neurologist too as the last one had said the same. It wasn’t until I got to the final table and saw the words ‘Oliver Turnbull (head of school!!!)’ that I realised they weren’t the name of the person whose brain it was but in fact the person who was talking to us… smooth.
Anyway, enough of the brain stuff this blog is going to be huge! I’m really busy right now as I have two deadlines next week and a midterm exam on Wednesday so I’m rushing around like a blue-arsed fly trying to get everything finished and get some revision done!
I got my exam results back the other week and I got an A- in Positive Psychology and a C in Clinical and Health so I’m very pleased with that, I also got a letter from the head of school congratulating me on a good first semester and all my grades so far, so that made me very happy indeed!
In non-work related news we came first in the pub quiz in Bar Uno last week winning £30 and second this week winning £8, so that’s been good fun. It’s nice going out as a flat every week because before we did all get on very well but only a few of us really socialised outside of halls.
Right I’ve rambled on for long enough now! Hopefully I won’t ever leave it this long to blog again!
Friday, 6 February 2009
Let it Snow.
It seems strange having snow in February, particularly to this extent! We haven't really had proper snow in Bangor, probably as we're by the coast, but because I was sitting in the kitchen whingeing about how everywhere else had snow and we didn't my flatmate suggested we went on a snow hunt. As you can see in the picture we found some!
We had great fun playing in the snow, we had snowball fights, made snow angels and sledged down the hillside on bin bags, all in all a very fun evening. It wasn't until we got back to Ffridd Site that Mo proclaimed she didn't have her phone, so back we went equipped with Will's head torches to hunt for it. I had the clever idea of phoning it, and sure enough a patch of snow started glowing, the phone was fine and still in complete working order!
I'm not feeling at all well tonight, which I maintain has nothing to do with my night out last night. I think I'm coming down with something as I've been feeling a little under the weather the past few days and so have a couple of my flatmates, I've turned down the offer of going out somewhere and I'm just about to head off to bed so it must be bad!
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