Wednesday CathSoc was cool...LOTS of party food!! YUM!!!

The Blue Room looked cool...We made it all pretty with balloons!

After the part, Zosh, Rob, James & myself decided that going to Belmont Park was a good idea. It's a long walk, but it was fun. We played on the swings, & James & I played on the wannabe seesaw...It was GREAT!!! It was like a mix between a pogo stick & a seesaw & completely unpainful. You didn't fall off, like you do if you use a pogo stick, & you didn't get painful bumps, like you do if you're the lighter person on a seesaw. James did nearly manage to throw me off though. He bounced really hard, & my feet went off the bar, but they went back on again, so it was OK.

Tessa and Zosh both saw my house on Wednesday! Zosh even stayed here! Both of them liked the leather sofas - they are great sofas!! Zosh couldn't appreciate the greenness of my house until Thursday though - it was 2:30am when we got back from the park, so it was too dark to see the outside of my house. It was OK though, because it wasn't dark on Thursday morning, & so she could see that the outside of my house (like a good chunk of the inside) is green! My house is also on the end of a row of white houses, so the effect of the green is even greater! We also have a green lamppost outside our house. Karen doesn't like green, but I think she'd like my house. My house is beautiful.

It turns out that the lecture that I thought I'd missed on Wednesday was actually cancelled, which I guess is good. It's also good that I was shopping with Tessa when I thought I should have been in a lecture, because otherwise, I'd have gone to my lecture, & got really angry that I'd walked all the way to campus just to find that my lecture was cancelled.

Yesterday, I bought orange juice & milk...mmmm milk...I like milk! I also bought some folders for my revision notes, so that I can organise them. Then, I came home & planned music for Mass on Sunday. I like planning music. It's cool...Though I can't read the index of the hymn books, so if I think of a hymn off the top of my head, I have to go through the whole hymn book to find it!!! I even did a bit of work yesterday - I read some of a book introducing the writings of St Paul, but I only read the bits on the Spirit and Eschatology, because that's what my essay's on, so nothing else was relevant really.

Today, I have already been to campus. I had a meeting with someone at the disability centre at 10am, & then I had a lecture at 12. Inbetween the two, I went to the Balcony Bar, & had a Flake, & hot chocolate with marshmallows...Mmm...My lecture today was a bit boring, but never mind. I'm sure it will prove useful in the exam. The silly lecturer gave us a handout with one page that can only be in about font size 6. I need font size 16 to be able to read it, so that's really not helpful.

I'm meeting my library helper next week. It should be good...It will mean that I have someone to find all of my books, & do my photocopying for me!! Hehehe.

Tonight, we are practising the hymns for Mass on Sunday. I'm hoping it will be fun. I've even bought new clarinet & saxaphone reeds!!! For me, this is progress...I've been FORGETTING to buy new reeds for months.

I went shopping with Tessa today for party stuff...It was cool!! We had a lot of fun!!! Hehehe

Last night, I was told AGAIN what I need to do after I graduate to become a teacher...I was taken out of what was apparently a really interesting seminar for that!

Yesterday, my counsellor suggested that my appointments are reduced to once every 2 weeks rather than once every week...It's kind of scary, but in another way, it feels kind of OK. I think I know that I'm getting better, & more able to cope, which is definitely a good thing!

I should be in a lecture now, but have had a bit of a manic few days, & was shopping with Tessa for tonight any way. Also, I would have found it hard to stay awake through the lecture...

I have started to research an essay that isn't due in for another 3 weeks...For me, that's good! Usually I do essays the night before!!!

Other than that, I have nothing interesting to say...

I have finally got my hospital appointments through from Oxford!!! I now have 2 appointments there, but if it's going to sort stuff out, then I guess I can live with it!

I phoned them this morning, 'cos I still haven't had a letter that's supposed to be sent out 6 weeks before my appointment... My 1st appointment is in just over 2 weeks, & the 2nd one is in 4 weeks. It's going to cost me lots of money to get there, but I can live with it!

On the 12th (my 1st appointment) I have to leave Exeter on the 7:12am train... Not really looking forward to that, but hey! Oxford is pretty, so I get a little while up there too... I do have to take a really stange train route to get cheap tickets, but never mind.

I LOVE the summery weather - it's fab! It's so nice to be able to go out without long sleeves & stuff!

Yesterday was a bloggable day - it was great to go back to Church, & after Zosh had opened her 21 presents (evidently essential for a 21st birthday), we went to the Imp & sat in the garden drinking coke (not even wine!!!) & it was great! Then, we went & found the stream on campus, & it was cool...Any way, going to help housemate unpack car, bless him. Tim has returned! Full house! Yay!!!!

Yes people! I am back! I have been up for 31 hours now, & am far, far past the stage of tiredness. I didn't go to bed last night as we had to leave Alaykoy at 3am this morning; we were at my nan's til 11:30pm, so there really didn't seem much point in trying to sleep.

This morning, I saw rain in Cyprus!! OK, so it's only rain, & we get a lot of it... In Cyprus, though, it's a bit of a novelty - they go for 8 or 9 months a year without rain, & the annual rainfall of Northern Cyprus is only 50mm!!! They had already had 2 months without rain!!!

I did sleep a little bit on my flight, but not much. I have worked out the TRUE meaning of UFO. It is not Unidentified Flying Object, it is Unidentified Food Object. I had breakfast on the plane (as my flight is about 5 hours long)... It consisted of sausage (not pork, but I'm not sure what it was) that bounced! A pancake (I think) with cheese (I think) that was like rubber, & a tomato that was definitely a tomato, tho tasted of plastic!!! There was also jam that had to be POURED onto the bread!!!

My daddy, lovely man that he is, decided that rather than leaving me to make my own way from Chingford (in Greater London) all the way to Rugby (South of Birmingham) by train - well TRAINS & the underground, & then from Rugby to Southam (where I live) on a bus, he will drive me all the way there after work today!!! Yay! That is SUCH a relief! I was not looking forward to dragging my HUGE suitcase around with me on trains & buses & things & certainly was not looking forward to walking home with it when I got off the bus.

I was a little sad to leave Cyprus, but I am glad to be back here. I will be even more glad on Saturday when I go back to Exeter!!! So exciting!

Psst!!! Zosia is getting old!!!!!! Hehehe

Well, I'm in the internet cafe again...

I have not really heeded the advice about the sun... My feet look v funny - I wear shoes without socks, & so I have really strange tan marks on my feet...

I have been very sensible, & haven't taken no photos of no airports, nor have I taken photos of army bases... I've also managed to resist the temptation of seeing if I can run through the boarder without being shot. (That very nearly ended up as something else, as 'i' is next to 'o' & my fingers don't always behave!!!)

I had a very weird Easter - on Good Friday I was teaching; on Saturday, I can't really remember what I did, & on Sunday, I went to visit my aunt... It was very strange not going to church!

The weather here is a bit cooler now. It has even been cool enough for me to wear jeans! The rest of the time it's been so hot that I've only been able to wear skirts. It's now about 20 degrees at mid-day. You'd think it was freezing! Everyone here has rooted out their woolly hats!!! Last week it was mostly between 32 & 35 at mid-day, and didn't go below 22 in dayligh hours.

I am kind of missing Exeter though, & I'll be glad to get back next Saturday. Cyprus is lovely, but it's not home! I am missing my house, & I am missing my friends... Yes, I acknowledge my weirdness...

Well, i have been in north cyprus for a week. all is good. i have been working in school for 2 days now. all of the teaching is done in english, which can only b good! so, i have been doing some teaching!

it's great weather here - above 22 every day!! bliss!

i am staying with my uncle, & from his house, there is a great view of the mountains, so i have spent quite a lot of time just sitting on the balcony with a book, or some work. it's great. have not been out & about much. my turkish is not good & i'm a bit nervous about getting lost, etc. i WILL b getting about a bit more though. i am working in a city right on the border between north & south cyprus, & some of the city is really old, & beautiful, so i'm planning on going further into the city at some point.

the teachers here get so much free time it's funny... the school day is from 8am to 1pm, they have 1/2 an hour of break time during that...there are 7 lessons of 40 minutes a day, & they only teach for 3 of those!!! they spend the rest of the time sitting in the staff room drinking coffee & chatting. they don't even have that much marking to do! also, EVERY school in northern cyprus employs someone to make coffee etc for the teachers!!!!! i was so shocked when i realised that this woman's job was purely to make coffee & tea for the teachers, but apparently all schools have someone to do that!!! it's insane!

anyway...i could stay in this internet cafe, or i could go & enjoy the sun...hmm...hard choice! byebye!!!