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Polaroids at a BBQ

Friday, June 4th, 2010 by Kiyu

Tina’s polaroids of us from a BBQ on Wednesday. Left polaroid: Corinne, me, Doris and Heather | Right polaroid: Corinne, Tina, me and Heather

Looking at these polaroids, it struck me how incredibly much I’ve actually changed appearance-wise during the past year. I’ve become much more feminine, and I’m not sure my classmates from high school would ever recognize me if they saw me now!

I’ve had such a great time after my exams ended (WOW intense period, power napping only, more on that later), being up to something every day and keeping myself occupied. Granted, there were a few episodes I could have lived without (like how I got drunk for the very first time last night out), but overall it’s been a really good time! I’ve also FINALLY dusted the dust off my Canon 450D and let it do some work again, so there will be loads of photos coming up within the next week I think!

Tags: bbq, England, lake, UEA, UK, uni, university
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Week of insanity

Monday, May 24th, 2010 by Kiyu

Hello my dearests, I’m just checking in to inform you that I’m more than halfway through my exams now, (woohooo!), and the following week of hell looks like this:

Tuesday: Physical biochemistry
Wednesday: Pharmaceutical formulations
Friday: Physiology and pharmacology
Friday: Life processes and genetics
Saturday: Patients, medicines and health

That’s 5 exams within one week, and I am not looking forward to friday. Effing hell. I kid you not my friends, pharmacy is actually one of the more insane courses you could do. Oh, and I want to show you my sexy, yellow folder!

Oh, and Casker; please remind me in one week to write a post about why I chose pharmacy!

Tags: exams, folder, pharmacy, sexy, uni, university, yellow
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Hipp hipp hurra for 17. Mai!

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 by Kiyu

Had such a great day, thanks for sharing it with me, Hui! Unfortunately I have no photos from the day (this is the only one I could find, all credits to lovely Hui!), was too busy skipping around with my flag, distributing fresh-out-of-the-oven boller (Norwegian sweet buns) to remember bringing my camera along! I feel like such a good girl, I got up really early on my own accord to bake the buns! And goodness knows my sleeping pattern is little more than a wreck these days with my crazy exams! Actually, I have another exam in about 2.5 hours. Ehe.

I only met one other Norwegian yesterday, and I heard there were other ones with flags and Norwegian hoodies as well! Such a shame I didn’t get to meet them!

Tags: 17. Mai, 17th, boller, campus, day, May, national, Norwegian, UEA
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Baked salmon

Monday, May 10th, 2010 by Kiyu

My dinner tonight. Baking salmon is so easy and require very little washing up! I’m in a I-miss-Norwegian-food period haha :D

Tags: dinner, fruit, laks, salad, salmon
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The smell of cardamom

Monday, May 10th, 2010 by Kiyu

Nothing brings back childhood memories like the smell of cardamom… I love traditional Norwegian sweet buns! I only realized while scavenging for ingredients how Norwegian recipes always have that exciting little twist on everything. Like the use of cardamom and vanilla sugar in cakes and bakes. I’m so used to it that I never questioned it, but apparently it’s very bold and odd! It’s so exclusively Scandinavian that I had to buy cardamom pods, peel them to get the seeds and ground them myself! Geez! Baking is tough work in UK! Soon I’ll get some vanilla pods and make my own vanilla sugar as well. Damn straight!