This week has been okay I suppose. For those who doesn’t understand the whole England holiday system, every so often after like what seems ages, you get a week off which is called half term. At college you supposed to crack ahead on assignments but it didn’t turn out that way for me or anyone else who spoke to me. Anyway, I spent most of it at different locations around England as I think my mom wanted to have trips with me before the whole kidney journey begins, which is fair enough.
The first day trip was on Tuesday and was spent at Milford on sea and Mudeford . Wasn’t looking forward to it as I felt a bit old to spend days out with parents but I was wrong. It turned out okay as I had food outside a cafe with a beautiful sea view and that special refreshing air you get at beaches. The tide was in the whole time I was there so I didn’t bother going on the rocky beach. Only issue I had was my dad being a pain and wasn’t making any effort to include himself or even stay awake in the car. Him snoring in the car really pissed me and my mom. Plus on the way there his directions was wrong. My mom was driving the right way and he told her to go towards Southport or something. I had fun directing back on route. Not. Thank god for Google maps.
On Wednesday and Thursday was spent up with my sister that lives in a village near Derby. I am still amazed how massive the Westfield centre is. For those who don’t know what one of them is, its a shopping centre on a seriously large scale. You wouldn’t believe how spacious it really is till you looked at it yourself. I had a evening getting a few things there which included Croc trainers (which are really light and easy to clean) and a new jacket. I shouldn’t forget I now have a bath bomb from Lush to use. It smells nice.. I am saving it for a moment when I’m feeling in the dumps.
I had my dinner at Pizza express which I loved. I had dough balls which I been dreaming of eating since my last visit and shock horror, a pizza. They like glass bottles for drinks such as Coke which is nice to pour in the glass but it is a shame they don’t have taps as it be great if they offered bottomless refills. I get so thirsty when I’m waiting for my food there.
I spent the night sleeping on the sofa bed. I had a good sleep on it actually and used this amazing cushion that turns into a duvet. I love the Swedish people at Ikea, they come up with some good ideas sometimes. It kept me at a good temperature over the night and the zip was at a location that didn’t contact bother you whilst sleeping. The only problem I had was the gerbils eating their cage overnight causing a annoying sound. I said shut up to them and liked how they was frozen still for enough moments for me to nod off.
I have college tomorrow which I actually don’t mind. I am putting my fingers crossed that the new timetable will be more to my liking. One can only hope however. I guessing he will just do different lessons in the same slots as before which will be dull. Anyway least I will have a hour gyming things up. I better sort my bag out now for everything. Toodles.
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Posted 29 May 2009 — by eddieh
Category Derby
Various uni prospectus from Derby Uni.. contains Stoke-on-trent lolly!
Its my second day in Derby and I have to say that things have been rather random. Yesterday I travelled up in the afternoon in my sister car and she packed her car full with different items for the house that she moving into with her partner. I was crammed in myself but the journey wasn’t that bad even though I had a hamster in a cadge on my lappy.
I went to sleep on this camp bed that already has some lovely holes in it. I woke up at 4am because my weight has just tore the whole thing apart. I was so glad they were planning to get rid of it anyway because I have had rendered it useless now. It’s a shame cause it was better than directly sleeping on the floor.
Anyway, moving on to today. I’d got up at 8am to have a refreshing shower and cornflakes whilst seeing disasters that the emergency services have to deal with on telly. Not exactly something I wanted to watch really but the cable video-on-demand didn’t work at the time.
At lunchtime, I decided to help out by mowing the lawn. I stupidly thought that such a task would be simple to archive and that I would be munching on another snack within moments. I was so wrong by thinking this. I had to put this pesky mower together and then I found that every five seconds I had to clear the base of it or it wouldn’t function. Ah well.. least it did the job.
Much later on in the afternoon at around 3pm, I arrived in Stoke where I unplanned went out with some people I knew from the place to the park as they were looking after the neighbour kids for some reason. I discovered that I would fail so badly if I ever wanted children.
I went to the house earlier than the people at the park and went out with my sister in the car. When we returned, we discovered the locked them out. During the time they were waiting, they deweeded the front garden which I was amazed by as the two years I visited the place, not once they took much care for it.
So we went out to the garden centre, for them to spend around fifty quid on plants. Not like you can get much for that price these days.
So that was my rather random day. Sorry if I rambled too much. :/
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Since the last post I called up the phone insurance company which promptly sent out a brand new phone to me for the old one. I found this rather neat as the phone I had were a refurb meaning I didn’t have any of the wires or charger even. I had to send so many emails to get that charger.
Anyway. Lets talk about Friday. Well, I didn’t have a phone so therefore it ended up meaning that I didn’t have a alarm to wake me up resulting on me oversleeping and waking up 10 mins before the lesson.
Thankfully I kept hold of the postcard the media people gave me which had the tutor number and called her up. She told me that they were in a different room and when I reached the college, I stepped into that room but got a shock when I found it was grannies on computer. I tried explaining I got the wrong room and I was a student but they couldn’t work Word out. I quickly told them about it and dashed out wondering were the class was. I worked it out in the end and managed to caught up with the work.
In the afternoon, it was video production. Gah! I thought I would of loved this subject when I joined the course but the only thing I don’t mind about it is the editing which I still only know the basics of. In the subject, everybody group is making two adverts. Well the adverts I made suck. I mean, come on.. I’m mumbling in the adverts! Then to rub thing into the womb, Tiff and Key flipping join the group which I can’t argue about as Tiff is the girlfriend of the person I’m working with and they done crap all!
Towards the end of the day, they suggest leaving early and as we managed to get away with it last time. I just went along with it as I wasn’t really enjoying being there.
So yeah that was Friday.
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This is my first post of 2009 and I’ve been meaning to post since NYE but didn’t get around to it. I got invited go to this year panto by my parents and I thought why not. I haven’t been to see a panto for awhile but the offer of having a Pizza Express before hand and be able to go to use my Topman gift card was too tempting to refuse.
After park and riding things up, I went straight to Topman and tried on their hats. It seems quite social place to hang in the late afternoon as it was busy but strangers was talking with each other. Rather strange and then once I picked the stunning hat I wanted, the person at the kiosk I seemed to know from shopping there before. Topman is one of my dream student jobs I have in mind. Maybe once I can drive?
Pizza Express was delicious as it always is. This time I had a desert there which is unusual which was a chocolate fudge cake with ice cream. This mix well with each other and I think it one of the many good combinations you can have for a desert. Next stop.. the playhouse!
After collecting the tickets, we all had a drink at the rather busy bar before finding our seat. Sleeping Beauty was enjoyable and it finished a good night out with my parents. I was dreading abit beforehand but glad I stuck it out. The day after tomorrow I have my last day of my Christmas break off and then its the delights of college. I’m guessing it will be a long day in the house on my own. Oh well, I have the Wii and Messenger I suppose.
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