There is only one thing I don't like about Christmas and New Year: the exams that follow them in January.
I got back to uni on Saturday, and I had my first exam yesterday. It didn't go as badly as I thought, but I'm really not looking forward to the one I have tomorrow. As you can see, I'm using my time wisely... Procrastination is a bitch!
But anyways, I did have a lovely Christmas. I've realised that it isn't as exciting when you get older, but that doesn't bother me really. I had a great day with my dad, brother and his girlfriend, and as always we went to our local pub for lunch, which was amazing.
Jess, Rhys and Me
My dad and Me (I was slightly tipsy at this point!)
Clearly someone was tired after their food!
Another great thing about being home was I got to see all my friends! Yes, two of them may be in Swansea with me, but it was lush to see everyone else. We basically went to the pub every evening. We're students, what do you expect!?
And then came New Year's Eve. Now I wasn't out drinking with my friends like most people would have expected, no, I was working in said pub where we spend all our time. Not that I was complaining though. I earned myself a nice £70, which I basically spent straight away. I didn't mean to though!!
I think I have procrastinated enough for one day. My materials exam is at 2pm tomorrow, and I know nothing for it. Thank God for summer resits! Although, maybe I might try to learn something...
I can't believe it's been 2 months since my last post! Apologies people!
I suppose I should really pick up from where I left off. I don't really have a proper excuse as to why I haven't been on here, although my work load increased a hell of a lot in November and December, so that could have had something to do with it.
I did have time in November to go to the Albert Hall, once again, for the Music for Youth School's Proms. This year Gwent Strings were performing and as I was part of the choir all we had to do was hum at the end of the piece.
Oh, yes. Then came December, and with that, the ridiculous amount of Christmas concerts!
I may as well have lived on the trains all through the month, with the amount of travelling between Swansea and Newport I had to do.
I had my first concert with Gwent, which was nothing but as standard to be honest. I'm now one of the oldest in the choir now, but I do like it.
Only a few days after that, I sung as part of a 10-piece choir for a wedding in Bath. This was a great experience, and something I would definitely consider doing in the future, especially seeing as I got paid for it!
The choir just before the wedding started
Then came the Swansea University Choral Society concert. I've got to say, I loved this concert, and I was even lucky enough to have a solo in one of the pieces (I start at 1:47):
The final Christmas concert I did was with the BBC NOW and Chorus. I'm not actually a member of that choir, yet, but they combined with Gwent Youth Choir, and we performed some traditional and not so traditional Christmas songs.
Today marks one month since I moved into House 52 in the student village. A lot has happened in that month.
1) Well, first of all, I moved in.
My bed.
My wardrobe, shelves and drawers.
My desk. Most important thing is the flag though!
My picture wall and poster on my door!
My wall, complete with birthday cards, posters and my banner from my guides.
2) I have some awesome house mates.
Pim, Charlotte and myself on the first night out in Diva's.
Me and Jason, our house mate from Hong Kong.
Ben, Matt, Pim, myself, Sam and Jonny before Fresher's Ball.
3) And finally, my birthday!
Blowing out my candles.
My birthday cake from my house mates.
Me and Tom in the Wonky Sheep.
The balloons on the door. Says it all really.
I know what you're thinking. No, I'm not back with Tom, and I haven't spoken to him properly since my birthday. If you are clever enough you might be able to find the blog I've made about him, but I'm not telling you how to find it!
All in all, I have loved my first month here, and can't wait for the many more that will follow!
Well I'm back. I've been back for more than a month now, but I've only just managed to get around to writing this! I say that, I've just been too lazy really!
I've got to say, I did have an amazing time in Leipzig. There were a few times that I felt like screaming at some people (I'm naming no names!), but no holiday is ever perfect, is it?
I suppose the only part of the tour that I didn't enjoy was the stupidly long bus, ahhhh I mean coach *puts one euro in the pot*, journey that we had to endure there and back. I myself am not brilliant with coaches, so I had these travel sickness tablets called Joy Rides. Oh how I giggled when I first saw them!
I'm also not very good with sleeping on coaches either, unlike my friend Jenny, who slept like this:
I really don't understand how that is comfortable! Thankfully, I did eventually get to sleep: lying face down in the aisle of the coach, where I actually slept like a log! In all honesty I don't really care that I may have been a nuisance to everyone else that had to climb over me, I was comfortable and I got my sleep. That was all I cared about at that moment!
The actual tour itself was amazing and I had actually forgotten how beautiful Germany was. If I were to describe the whole week in words, well, I can't. So I'll do it in pictures instead.
Told you... beautiful!
Amazing artwork on the side of a building.
The only good thing about our sausage meal!
The orchestra's first concert.
Choir rehearsing.
The choir's concert in a monastery.
The married couple sleeping on the way home. Bless them!
Hi! I'm Rhian and I'm 20 years old. I live in South Wales and am studying Product Design Engineering in Swansea University.
I like to write about random things, mainly about what happens to me.
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