Trip to Cambridge (and singing along to Hamilton)

Hiya!

It's Saturday, a day of sleeping in, and yet I woke up at 7:30 am.

Why do I do this to myself?

I went to a masterclass at Cambridge University today with my friend. The journey was two hours long, and though I ended up desperately needing to go to the toilet, I had fun. We sang and danced along to the Hamilton soundtrack, which I now admit is awesome.

For a long time now my friends have been trying to get me to listen to it, and I resisted thinking I would get bored of the politics and history. It turns out it's got wonderful characters and an amazing storyline, which makes it the complete opposite of boring. And definitely worth checking out!

We went our separate ways when we arrived - we have different interests and booked different classes after all. I sat near some other girls who were by themselves, and we chatted a bit whilst we waited for the lectures to start. It surprised me actually, I went in thinking I would sit quietly to myself as everyone would have friends with them, but it was nice to talk to others who came on their own too.

The lectures themselves were quite interesting, there was one on evolution and antibiotic resistance which I particularly liked, and wrote four pages of notes on it. Now that I write it down...I sound so keen, my goodness!

Some current students at Cambridge also gave us a little talk about student life, and I loved the fact that they mentioned a Quidditch Club, and an Assassins Society, where they dress up and plan ways of murdering each other...

I'm not sure whether to be worried or laugh at the awesomeness of that!

Anyway, when the masterclasses had ended, we went back home (and back to Hamilton), stopping quickly for some coffee on the way. Starbucks' new Burnt Caramel Latte is delicious, if you were wondering :)

Today was strangely fun and exciting, and I'm glad I decided to go to these lectures and meet new people.

♥

I love you

xxx

Happy New Year

Hiya!

I'm too many hours too late, but hey, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I spent New Year's Eve at my friend's house, watching films, TV, and playing Wii games for 6 hours...

I kept on losing, but it was all about having fun, and I did have fun. I'll just keep telling myself that, and the fact that she had an unfair advantage over me seeing that she'd played them before... ;)

Anyway, we then watched the countdown and the London firework display on TV. They were actually pretty good this year, very colourful, which I like.

Let's hope that 2016 will be an amazing year for everyone (because let's be honest, 2015 was, well, not so good).

I'm not one to make (and definitely not stick to) New Year's resolutions, but this year I plan to be in control of my own happiness and generally have a better outlook on life. I know that I need to work hard to be happy in the long term, but I'll definitely focus on staying happy in the short term too.

Anyone made any resolutions? I hope they last long ;)

With that said -

LET 2016 BE OURS!!

♥

I love you

xxx

Surprise Party was a SUCCESS!!

Hiya!

For weeks now, my friends and I have been planning a surprise birthday party for our friend.

And it was a complete success! Through lying, hiding, sneaking around and awkward moments, we threw an amazing party which she had absolutely no clue about! :)

I've never thrown a party like this before, and it made me feel so grown up. There was so much organising that we had to do - we created a collage of photos which we had to stalk her for, bought food and decorations, baked a birthday cake, and even planned exactly how we were going to get her to come and how exactly we were going to surprise her. Which took a lot of hardcore pen-on-paper, drawing out a blueprint, and practising to perfect ;)

And we made her a present of 'open when...' cards, because she refused to accept gifts, although "cards were okay". We all wrote a few cards ourselves, and also did some group ones.

She'd better not cheat and open them at the wrong times!!

Strawberries and cream cake :)

On the day of the party, we set out the snacks and decorated the room with banners and balloons (we even hung them from the lights). We got cameras ready, got into our positions and when she arrived...we jumped out at her with party poppers!

It was fantastic.

And we spent the rest of the day dancing and singing like we were drunk, even though all we'd had was J2O...

It was so fun! And amazing, and awesome, and brilliant!

♥

I love you

ttyl

xxx

Work Experience, Vaccinations and Another Birthday

Hiya!

I finished my work experience! I was at my dentist's for the last two weeks, just sitting in the corner and observing since I'm not allowed to do anything. But it was so good, and I loved it. The staff are so kind and lovely, they're like my new second family. I'm kinda sad that it's over.

Anyway, more on work experience in another post.

Also today, I had the first jab of three for the HPV vaccination. So I don't get cervical cancer when I have sex, which will not be in a loooooooong time. At the time it only stung a little bit, but now it aches like hell, and I really just want to rip my arm off :(

And happy birthday to another one of my friends! She had a party in which twenty or so of her friends were invited, and I don't know the majority of them as they're all older. But I sort of just went over to give her her present and ended up staying for four hours. It was awkward at first, but then I got to know some of them and it was really fun. One of them even hugged me when she left even though she barely talked to me...but I think she was a bit hyper...

Took me by surprise, is all.

So, I literally spent the whole day outside today, from 8:30 in the morning to go to work experience until 8:30 in the evening coming back from my friend's house.

And I'm now exhausted.

❤️

I love y'all

Goodbye!

ENROLLING AT HOGWARTS!

Yummy!

"I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death..." - Professor Snape

Pink ribbons and bows and frills and feathers - it's definitely Snape ;)

Not a very good photo but the middle one made me laugh at its absurdity...

It looks worse than it actually was - I wasn't being greedy, we were just a very big group of 9!

Terrible quality, I'm ashamed to even say I took this photo, but I just love the colours and patterns

The Knight Bus and the Wooden Bridge

Five Nights at Freddy's, anyone? To be honest, this terrified me.

Well.

A paper model of Hogwarts

Just thought I'd say, the little paper people are less than 1 cm tall...

♥

Hiya!

If you haven't gathered already from the title and photos, I got into Hogwarts! I can now proudly say that I'm a witch, and I will follow in the footsteps of Voldemort to become the most powerful witch in the world. Muggles, watch out!

I'm only kidding! ...Or not - I could be double bluffing - I'm not supposed to tell muggles about us wizards and witches anyway...

Nah. Though I'm still waiting for my letter to arrive, I did not go to Hogwarts, I only went to the wondrous Harry Potter Studio Tour. It was such fun - I went with my friend and we drank butterbeer and saw the Hogwarts express at 'Platform 9 ¾'.

After spending hours in the tour, we went for a quick dinner (it was very late) at McDonald's. Fancy, I know, but still yummy. I hadn't eaten at McDonald's in a long time. By the time I got home, it was 11:30 pm and I was so very tired. I had been too excited during the tour and I guess the energy just ran out...

But this was two days ago - yesterday I just spent sleeping in and resting, no excuse for not writing anything really. I'm terribly sorry and annoyed with myself.

I'm here now, though, finally...

♥

I love y'all, and goodbye!

ANYTHING GOES!

Hi, my dearests!

I watched Anything Goes yesterday! It was so good! I loved You're the Top and Anything Goes especially.

And the tap dancing...phew! I'm so glad I watched it since I'm learning the dance in my lessons, although it was a bit disappointing to see that the dance had been tweaked a little and wasn't exactly the same as the one I'm learning...

Oh well, overall a very very good musical :)

But here's a little naughty something:

I had brought my camera with me, and at the train station, my friend and I went all the way down the station to the very end where the station dips down into gravel. We went to take photos, and we must have gotten too close to the edge...because next thing we know, there's an announcement on the loudspeakers saying:

"CAN THE TWO YOUNG LADIES AT THE END OF THE PLATFORM MOVE AWAY FROM THE EDGE, PLEASE!"

Oh, the mortification! Everyone turned and peered down the platform to stare at us, and at that time our train was due to come so we had to walk back up to our parents anyway. It was so embarrassing. But, I held my head up anyways and stared straight ahead, not meeting anybody's eye.

It was only when I had reached my mum when she told me that I had just barged past another friend of mine, who had been trying to catch my eye the whole time I was making my way up the platform. Why am I the most awkward human being in the whole world? And I'm seeing her tomorrow so...

Ugh, why?!

Anyways, I've got a few random photos I've taken these past two days and I like them, so um...I'll just put them here...

Just a little random photo of my candle and empty-Nutella-jar-with-gold-heart which I painted...

Terrible photo, I know, but it was all I could do before being startled by the announcement :(

Didn't your momma ever tell you it's rude to stare?

I like reflections in puddles...

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I love y'all, and goodbye!