Update of my studies

Hi Everyone! ^-^

I realise that I haven't been blogging in a long time. Sorry for that, it's just, I've been very busy with studying as the workload in year 2 is immense and I've been preoccupied with other things O.o; Anyway, in the last few weeks a lot has happened, of course, I won't go into detail about everything XD

Labs this year are 10 hours a week, instead of 8 a week last year, which might not seem like much, but it really is a lot more work and so much more tiring! Though, the labs are a lot more fun to do also, which of course is a big plus :) I just finished this weeks labs yesterday, so today is a study day, i.e. go to lectures, start to write up my labreport, do some maths assignment, look through my lectures notes and do some homework problems... Jeez that sounds like a lot of work O.o; But that's what I plan to do xD

Because of some personal issues I've been having, I've been listening more to myself and thinking about what it is that I really want out of my life and how I can make it better for 'me'. So I've been hanging out more with my friends and stopped isolating myself in my room as much. I've actually been going out and drinking more as well, which I guess is good for building up my experience and of course alcohol tolerance hehehe ^-^; The main decision I've made, though, is that I really want to go to Africa and do volunteer work with animals, and I've taken steps to ensure that I can actually go. I have a telephone call with the organisation I'm going with next week, so more on that when I know more myself xD

One of the best things that I've done recently is go to Edinburgh with the Photography Society. My first time in Scotland, It was AWESOME! and so B-E-A-Utiful :D (I'll post some pictures I took later on). We left on a Thursday night, after my last exam for Semester 1 and when we got to the hostel we of course unpacked and went to the pub :) Friday we had a guided tour of Edinburgh organised by the hostel, which was really nice. Then me, Hector, James, Virginia and Tom did the whisky experience where we rode in a whisky barrel to see the process of whisky production, tried some whisky and saw a collection of 3500 whisky bottles (unopened)! It was really cool! In the evening we (the whole group) had mexican food and then went on a pubcrawl, which was amazing! ^-^ I think over the whole night I had 2 pints of cider, 1 pint of ale, 1 rum and coke, 1 pint of heineken, 1 cherry-ish shot, 2 sambuka shots and a tequila shot.... as you may guess I was a bit drunk :) Though I can still remember what I had and where we went and what we talked about, so I guess it can't have been that bad :D Also, a big bonus is that I didn't have a hangover at all! Though when I showered the next morning I do think I was still a bit drunk 'cause the shower was spinning a little O.o; hehehe... The next day (after going to bed at like 4:30am) I got up at 8:30 to have a shower and breakfast and in the afternoon, when everybody had woken up, me and a few of the group went to see Edinburgh castle, which was really beautiful. Afterwards we roamed around Edinburgh a little, ordered indian food and in the evening we went a tiny pub where 3 men were singing folk whilst playing their guitars, which was lovely. Then we climbed up a hill to this great unfinished copy of the Parthenon , which is also called Scotland's Disgrace because it was never finished. We stayed there for a while taking night-time pictures, which (I hope) turned out great :) On Sunday we roamed around the city a bit and then flew back to Soton around 2 o'clock.

So that's my story about Edinburgh. I'd love to go again and see a bit more of the nature of Scotland, maybe go camping with my parents there sometime, who knows. Anyway, my first experience of Scotland was amazing :D

I think this blog is long enough for now, so when I know more about my trip to Africa I'll let you know ^-^

Love you guys! and I'll try to blog more often from now on :)
~xxx~ Fleur

Edit: photo's are up on the right ^-^