Blogs from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 16

So this morning I woke up to a wonderful sun shining away and it felt like a typical Santa Cruz sunny morning. It was awesome! Add the leaves falling gracefully from the trees in multitudes of fall colours and you've completed the picture. I love that all the trees here change colors. You can actually see a change in the seasons as opposed to simply feeling the change in the temperature. In all the gross sickness and therefore laps in memory this week, I completely forgot to mention my field trip around Nottingham city. On Thursday morning I woke up really early (I had to be at the bus stop at 8:15am to catch the bus!) and headed to the city centre with Amy. We were on our way to the meeting point for our 9am ... read more

Okay so nothing exciting has been happening over the past couple days. The only news is that my cold has gotten worse and I hope that's a sign that I'll start to get better...SOON! I hate being sick. Other than that life has continued as normal. After skipping practice on Wed, I decided that I would try and go to practice today. It's indoors instead of outside so I'd be better off and wouldn't necessarily worsen my condition. Thus I decided that I'd try to do as much as possible at practice, which turned out to be a lot more than I thought. Partially because I was felling better and partially because we had low numbers. It was a really good practice. Then we headed over to Sherwood Bar to hang out. That was pretty fun ... read more

After a pretty late night I headed out early to catch a lift to Nott'm Trent Uni for day 2 of Damme Heere Slamme Fayre ultimate tourney. Our first game was Fling 1 v. Fling 2 to see who would go to the Middle Eight finals or the Bottom Four. Fling 2 beat Fling 1 something like 10-2 which was pretty bad. It was a really good game though. So Fling 2 moved into the Middle Eight and Fling 1 went to the Bottom Four to fight it out for the spoon. Tristan showed up for the second game of the day and was a really big help, especially since Metal Dave was out with an injured shoulder. The whole day was pretty good, kinda mellow. We won a couple and lost a few, but we ... read more

So it's Friday and I don't have class today. Yay! That's usually a sign that I need to go out of town. However, this weekend I will be participating in my first indoor ultimate tourney. It should be really really fun and interesting. I'm hoping to learn lots. Being that I don't have class I had planned on exploring Nott'm a little bit, but my plans were waylaid for several reasons. Mainly because I couldn't find a travel-around-town buddy which is essential and because it started to rain pretty good and exploring outdoor things in the rain is a sure way to getting yourself horribly wet and sick. Not good...thus my exploration of Nott'm has been put temporarily on hold. Instead I tried (somewhat in vain) to finish my part of the lecture presentation that I'm ... read more

What to say about Wednesday..... I had a non-US foreign policy class this morning which was nice. Today's contemporary lecture was on communist world systems starting with the Soviet Union, of course. It was a really interesting lecture, more cultural history than data or political/social history--I think I fit in the cultural history framework better than the political, although social isn't too bad. Lecture was the only real thing that occurred in the morning. After lecture I went home to eat lunch, quickly, before frisbee practice at 2pm. Practice today was good although there are some people who continue to come out, which is really awesome, except that they still haven't grasped how to throw a disc correctly and arrive at practice in jeans and a jumper. It's a bit insane and at some point I ... read more