Belgian chocolate has restored my faith in humanity

10/10/2012

It has been officially 1 month since I’ve been in the UK! Yay! I’ll put up some pictures soon I promise!

So Saturday I ended up going to Medowhall mall to get a few things. I find that I really like going shopping alone. Don’t get me wrong I love spending time with all my friends, but I enjoyed just going at my own pace and wandering around for a few hours. I finally got a working sim card for my phone, so now I can call and text people. I also found my new obsession, Lush, which I have a feeling I will be spending a lot of money in. After the mall I went back to opal to study. I went to Tesco and picked up a pre made meal because I was to lazy to cook. I bought what I thought was a bacon, chicken, pasta dish. I went home heated it up only to find that what I believed to be cheese was actually (now hot) mayonnaise. Who the hell puts bacon in a pasta salad? I promptly threw it out and made myself a PB and J.

Sunday I spent all day in the osteology lab studying for my first bone quiz. A bunch of other classmates were there so it was actually a good time. It’s like we’re suffering, but we’re doing it together. So I spent 5 hours in the lab looking at bone fragments until my brain fizzled out and I had to go home. I then drank a bottle of cider and watched Netflix.

Monday I had my bone quiz at 10am. I was really nervous because it was my the first graded thing I had done in graduate school. I hadn’t realize how many immature (non adult) samples she was going to put on the quiz. I had just glanced at them assuming we would just have to identify that they were adolescent.  I will make sure to study those ones closer in the future. I got the quiz back today and didn’t really do as well as I had hoped.  Grading is different here though, a 70 is considered a high grade and teachers rarely (never) give out anything higher than a 75/80. It’s a bit hard to get used to that idea because to me getting a 70 is like awful.

Nothing else very exciting is going on. My friend Lousia graduated from her previous university in Belgium this past weekend and brought back Belgian chocolate. My god eating those was a religious experience. I think my faith in humanity was restored. Seriously, so good.  I got a bunch of decorations from the 99 pence store for Halloween so now our kitchen has little skeletons and pumpkins!