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| Asma, me, Niki and Mandy on St Patty's Day! |
As I anticipated St Patty’s day in England is a non-event, but we definitely did ourselves proud! Unforunately Nicole (my roommate) couldn’t come out because she actually has a full time job and it was a Thursday, but I still had a pre drink and went out in Milton Keynes. Not as messy as previous St Patty’s (started drinking at like 3 instead of 10am…) but lots of fun. There were quite a few people at the pre-drink actually. Had a very strange moment when I walked into my kitchen and saw a guy with my sunflower oil almost to his mouth about to take a swig! Clearly I didn’t know this character and haven’t seen him since but the story has been worth some giggles. After I was good and hammered I had to do the very uncomfortable thing of telling someone I ‘just want to be friends’. That was fun… hahaha This guy had a smoking bod (not that I saw it without clothes) but was anyone of my friends will tell you, was boring as dirt.
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| In the garden of the Musee Rodin (sculpture) |
I just had my first school break (March 18-April 4th) and took advantage of being a short flight away from France! Originally I was just planning on staying in Buckingham for the break and actually being a nerd and doing school work, but the travel bug bit me on my pale white ass. Caitlin and I were sitting around looking at cheap flights around Europe and then she just says, why don’t we just go to Paris? Two days later we had flights booked! We actually could have taken a train (which my mom took when she went) but at the time flights were cheaper! We got into Paris Monday night (the 28th) and it was too late to do much so we just went and checked out the Eiffel Tower all lit up. Then over the next two days we were very effective tourists, saw 4 museums, Norte Dame (did the nerdy audio tour and loved it!), went up the Arc de Triumph and ate lots of food. We tried to go out on Tuesday night and failed miserably. We kept our beer cold with frozen veggies as we couldn’t find ice anywhere then went to the Moulin Rouge district. This was a mistake. We thought there would be clubs, ummmm nope and people said we looked like hookers since we were wearing skirts! Hilarious? Yes. Inconvenient? Hell yes. Someone finally tells us that there’s a big club called Queen down on the Champs Éylsées. We cabbed there only to find it was dead too! We ended up having a drink in a lounge and were given glow bracelets by some old man who also kissed us on the forehead… We got out of there pretty fast after that hahaha But all and all it was a great trip. I look forward to doing more of the same during the summer and breaks during which I’m not coming back to Canada. When we got back to England on March 31st and spent the night in London and saw Down with Webster play, and they were amazing of course! And since this was their first concert over here it was in a small venue so we comfortably stood 4 feet from the stage and weren’t crowded! I really wanted to stay and party with them, but everyone else wanted to go clubbing, so unfortunately I was vetoed.
Now I’m back in classes and things are getting back to normal. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous the last couple of days which facilitated some mid week day-drinking followed by a night at the campus bar Wednesday (the 6th). It was an awesome start to the term. Only slight annoyance is the guy from Caitlin’s class who has been asking about me for awhile apparently, was on a mission last night. I literally hid in a bush to get away from him at the end of the night! Hid in a bush! I’m pathetic, but I really didn’t want to deal with rejecting him, so I took the childish route. Which is now fun to laugh about.
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| View from top of Arc de Triumph |
Other than the trip I've had riding lessons every Saturday and they’ve been great! Doing cross-country jumps, going through water and I’m loving it! My hockey team has been killing it our last couple games. I hate winning by such huge goal differences (last two games have been 20-0 and 19-0) but the goal differences will matter at the end of the season and we want to be able to move up to the Premier League. I’ve gotten 16 points in the last two games ahaha ridiculous!
The beautiful weather has gave everyone the BBQing bug so Saturday we’re going to buy one and start grilling at my place since I actually have a back yard! Not exactly sure what I’m going to be able to grill quite yet because I’m vegan right now and all of my favorite veggie burgers over here have eggs in them! So annoying. Looks like I’ll be making some veggie kabobs… yumm. Well I should really stop procrastinating and get to homework.
Hope all is well back home!
XOXO
Ashley Jay
