The joy of leeks

A day of revision. Cooked leeks for supper and thought they looked interesting on the chopping board (see what revision does to my sanity!).

Motorway Station

Probably the bleakest place on Earth. Stopped here on the way back from the funeral and later went to Okawari for supper as it was Mike Schofield's birthday. I tried to read The Origin of Species in the car and highlight all the important points but it was really difficult! Quite a random day.

Boat Race Day!

Sarah was ill so Emily, Felicity, Tom and I made our own way to Hammersmith using Sarah's printout from Googlemaps. It was packed with people on both the streets and roads so getting there was really difficult!We walked along the towpath for some of the journey and finally managed to get to Hammersmith bridge. Here squeezed through the crowds to find a patch of grass to have our pic-nic. This was a great relief as I'd started to feel very sick on our way there.
We met some other Hertford people including Joe and Matt. We then tried to get to the bridge to watch the boats go past from there but it was blocked off from the police. There were so many people around that in the end I hardly managed to see the boats go past! Matt and I lost the other people in the rush so then made our way to the bug screen. Here, Matt managed to help me balance on a railing so I could see from the crowd, tell him what was happening and take some pictures.
Oxford won!
There was loads of cheering from the crowd and people began to slowly disappear back towards the pubs. We managed to find the others and started to head back. On the way I stopped to take a picture of the bridge and a reporter interviewed us all for a London radiostation. It was a VERY hectic day but very much worth it.

Sleepover at Sarah's

Had work at the farmer's market in the morning but then met up with Sarah, Emily, Tom, Felicity and Chandni ready for the boat race the next day. We slept over at Sarah's (although she was ill with flu and didn't feel too good :( ) and watched the amazingness that is Ghost. I hated that film when I was a kid but watching it again made me realise that its not all too bad...quite cute actually...although the clothes and hairstyles are slightly odd >_<

The day I met Saya

Went to Knightsbridge to get my haircut at Sanrizz hairdresser's college. Thanks to Alice's amazing voucher I got it all for free (although it took 3 hours!). Today they had trainee students from Japan and the girl cutting my hair was called Saya. She didn't speak much English (and the only Japanese I know is how to count to 10...and I can't even do that properly >_<) so I did the typical English thing of talking reeeeaaaalllyyyy slowly and loudly without meaning to....When I asked if she liked England she answered with "fish & chips!"...I knew we'd be BFFs from then :D

Afterwards, I walked down to High Street Kensington because it was a really nice day and I wanted to show off my AMAZING haircut (yup, I wasn't left bald :O ). Although I REALLY wanted to take my POTD in the hair salon I don't think they would've let me so I took this quick shot as I walked past one of the streets on my walk. I love how all the houses around Gloucester Road and S. Kensington are so tall and uniform. As usual, these were situated around a green which is only accessible to the people living in the houses. I'd love to live in a place like this.

Dusk in the city

Went with Dani to Oxford street where we met up with Alice and her friend (eep, can't remember her name!) and had lunch in a Thai restaurant off Carnaby Street. Had a look in Traffic People where we tried on dresses and I fell in love with a red ruffled one with black polka dots and a black belt (£69 >_< ...if only, dammit!). Once home, the sun began to set and I ran up to the loft to take this picture. It took a couple of shots to get the balance between the colours of the sunset and silhouetes of the clouds, trees and houses right but I made it!

Queen Mary's

Went to visit Dani at Queen Mary's. We drank loads of green tea and made healthy smoothies while watching Repo; The Genetic opera (slightly V for Vendetta-like). Later went out at the Student Union bar and watched a basketball match.