Hiya, 2013!!
I hope you all had a wonderful new year's eve! One of my British friends invited s bunch of us and we stayed at hers on new year's eve.
In the second week of the holidays I went to Cribbs Causeway with two friends. I love it and already want to go back!! We've only seen a very small part of the whole mall. It takes about 45mins to get there by bus from Kingswood, but it's worth it:).
It does look a bit American I reckon.. oh well.
And I had my first Nando's in the food hall. Loved it (as well)! If you don't know Nando's (there isn't one in Switzerland, as far as I know), it's a restaurant chain originating from South Africa although the food is Portuguese. It took a while for my food to arrive, so I even got a voucher for a free meal, which is always nice:D. So now I have to go again.
There was a Winter Wonderland at Cribbs Causeway during the Twelve Days of Christmas (26.12. - 6.01.) and we went ice skating. It was on a temporary ice rink, I don't think there are any permanent ones nearby. It was labelled as the biggest rink in the Southwest, but was actually really, really small. Still lovely though - there was fake snow everywhere:).
I was a bit shaky, sorry.
I went to a piercing parlour in town with some girls from Hanham. It seems as though disinfectant isn't a thing here. They gave me some oils... I have to boil water and mix it with salt and oils.
After the holidays, we had exams week. There generally used to be two exams per subjects a year - one in January and the second one in May/June. My school said, the students didn't care enough for the January exams and only concentrated on the summer exams, to make up for the first test. As the students mostly failed the winter exams, we only had mock exams (the grade doesn't actually count). There were only actual exams held in psychology and health and social care - and I'm taking Psychology. I had mocks in French (reading, listening and oral) and maths. For English literature I had to do two essays - one on The Handmaid's Tale and one on The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. The better one of them is going to be sent in to be marked by professional people and will count 30% of my English final grade. The mocks were fine but my psychology exam went absolutely horrible. I had absolutely no idea about the test conditions in this country. Some of my friends informed me about an hour before the exam and made me rather nervous. Before the exam, we all were lead into a room, in which we had to leave our bags and jackets and everything. We were only allowed to have our black pens with us, and only in a see-through case. Then we were allowed to go into the hall. We all had a number - I was E8. There were letters on one wall and numbers on the other and I had to find my place (like on a chess board..). Oh, and any mobiles brought into the room were sealed into plastic bags:P. I was really nervous and freezing as I couldn't bring my coat. The girls said our test conditions are crazy when I told them about them, as you can easily cheat. I think it's nicer... at least our school system trusts us a bit! And I messed up my test... it wasn't very difficult, really, just very stressful. Oh well.
Traning (Hit Fit) has been really cool lately. I'm with a different partner every week now, but all the men are nice and funny.
I went to see Life Of Pi this week with two friends at the cinema in Cabot Circus - brilliant film!
 they sell Belgium waffles and Ben&Jerry's ice cream at the cinema!!:D |
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Oh, and here's another Ben Howard video, as the last one was blocked in some countries. That's one problem that I've never had since coming over here..
And here's a video which went viral this week throughout England... It's a Mcfly one again, sorry.
Ok, I'll leave you with that. x
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