Blogs from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 14

So in lieu of studying for my last remaining final, I have decided to catch everyone up on just what has transpired since the beginning of finals week. My first two finals went fine, I hope, although they were quite hard and people here write an extraordinary amount in a short period of time. By this I mean that the test booklets are on A4 paper, with about 6-8 sheets per booklet. People would actually ask for another booklet, so they were definitely writing essays.....research essays that they amazingly remembered. I was quite impressed but also quite annoyed, as I always am when people need to use extra booklets. It just doesn't seem necessary sometimes, plus they were killing more trees. EXAM 1: Contemporary World This exam was held in the sports hall, the large one, ... read more

I have finally arrived back in Nottingham and have been attempting to study for finals, hating every minute of it. I usually don't mind studying for finals but that could be because they generally take place BEFORE vacation--not so in England. It took me awhile to make my way back from the States into Nottingham and my home away from home. Actually, it took a 10 hour plane ride from LAX to Heathrow, about 20 minutes to get through customs and grab my luggage, and then a looong walk to the tube from Heathrow. The tube took a couple hours (maybe less but I didn't time it well) from Heathrow to St Pancras/King's Cross, where I proceeded to the train station. I waited around the train station for about an hour before my train left for ... read more

Ahh the xmas social....so to start. 2 long tables, winter vegetable soup, a full turkey dinner, crumble desert and so much more! Jeffro sang a few songs (one absolutely hilarious one), we all got secret santa gifts (oh yes back to when I was 9 with the super soaker!), and then craziness ensued. Ange had an interesting and plagiarized speech from Nimble and everyone drank a lot of wine. The jelly contest: 5 teams of 5-6 had to eat an entire frisbee worth of jelly, with your face and the fastest time wins! My team: Tank (ie Tristan), Bryn, Rod, Dan, and a forgotten fifth (sorry!) We did pretty good, coming in second I think. It wasn't too bad and was actually a lot of fun. A lot of people that haven't been around in a ... read more

'Look how many HobNobs are left. I have a problem.' -Taylor, who ate practically the entire package of HobNobs nearly in 2 hours....and then she eats another one. Ha! And then of course we proceeded to eat our lovely Ben and Jerry's ice cream, a real treat let me tell you! It was fabulous fun. ... read more

I played in yet another amazing frisbee tourney, indoors again but women only this time. Flyght Club and Mushiono hosted which was nice since it was at Trent Nott'm, Clifton Campus again only 10 minutes away. Yay for no communal showers and your own bed! :) It was quite interesting, although I think I agree with Ange that it's much more fun to play mixed. However, this weekend was really good. We were seeded 3rd which was really cool and we hoped to win the whole tourney. However, we couldn't quite get our heads into some of the games, which was frustrating, but we did okay as is. We did drop pretty far down though. But we saw this weekend as a practice really for regionals and then nationals (women's that is). Saturday night we all ... read more