November is a relatively unexciting month for me. Last weekend, I stayed in res. Most people were away on a language trip or individual travels but I stayed back, mainly cause I'm not in french so I wasn't allowed to go to Paris, and also because traveling is expensive and I'm trying to save my money. So last weekend was quiet, I finally slept more than 6 hours in one night, and actually slept in until about 2:00 3 days in a row which was amazing.
Last week we got out economics midterms back, and I somehow got 91%!!! Which I was extremely pleased about. Although, I owe much of it to the help of my friends who are commerce students. So yeah I was very happy about that. Finals are looming too, meaning I should start studying, but I probably won't for another week or so. I only have 2 assignments left for the rest of the term though and their both pretty easy so my path is clear for studying. However, I have discovered the shared hard drive on our network, which has about 100 movies that we can watch on our laptops, as well as games and TV shows. So needless to say, I have spent an inexcusable amount of time watching movies. This weekend I conquered Oceans 11-13.
This Friday I had a field study for my psych class, which would've been a lot better had I not gone out the night before. We finally made it out to Eastbourne for the night which was awesome, but the 3 hours of sleep I got before my field trip were not. We went to East Sussex University where my prof works, and we listened to a bunch of presentations about research that grad students are doing, ranging from testing the language of dogs, to the relationship between memory, nicotine and genes, to synesthesia (which is crazy might i add) and also about using music to prevent depression. It was really cool to think that in a couple years these people (especially the one about nicotine and memory, which she is hoping to use the research to help find a cure for Alzheimer's) might make huge breakthroughs in the next few years.
So I did that on Friday, and on Saturday I went to Stonehenge, and Salisbury. Stonehenge was really cool, not quite as impressive as I imagine but still pretty crazy. Its amazing to think that these stones (which weight as much as 7 elephants each) were carried across the country, and all the way from Wales in some cases, simply using man power. However, there is also a legend that the Devil placed the stones there and tricked some lady, but I think the first story is much more plausible.
From there we went to Salisbury, a town near stonehenge which was also pretty cool. It was a pretty small town, with small streets and old buildings. We went to Salisbury cathedral which was beautiful, and cool because they still had some Remembrance Day wreaths up. After that we just wandered around, watched the swans frolick in the river, and got confused by the stores that had entrances in the front, and back, both which led out to very similar looking streets.
So that was another long day, I spent a solid 7 hours on a bus, but it was definitely worth it. Now I am back at Bader, and potentially in the middle of a prank war.
Me and a friend stole the clothing of three of our friends because they were silly enough to leave their doors open while they went for lunch. So we took everything , and hid it, and told them that we would not give it back until they did a few embarrassing things such as professing their love for someone in the cafeteria, dressing in drag one day, hitting on someone of the same sex at the pub, climb a tree in their boxers, and make us a romantic mixed CD. So we are awaiting these tasks to be completed, but also awaiting retaliation. I will keep you updated.
That is all for now, I am headed to London for the upcoming weekend for a field study and to do some shopping and maybe go see a show.
Until next time..
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