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Today I had my first go at a 9 – 18 day with lectures. It’s quite unusual as UEA students finish at 5 PM at the latest, and most students only have maybe 1-4 lectures/seminars/workshops a day, if not less. As a pharmacy student, I’m enrolled in 6 modules this term (7 last term), which means my days are quite hectic as you probably can guess by looking at half of my time table. Pharmacy mates suggested I might as well not turn up to the lectures, because I keep nodding off to dreamland in them. Might as well just get the lecture notes and then study by myself, they say. It’s probably more efficient for me, but I feel like I’m missing out on important knowledge if I skip, and also once I get into the habit of skipping there’s really no turning back.

So I try my damned hardest to not skip, but as soon as the course tests and mock exams start rolling in, I know I will screw it up …

So once I got back to my room after 9 hours sleepwalking on campus, I fell into bed and slept for a good few hours. Totally ruined my sleeping habit, but if you need some sleep, then you need some sleep.

Btw, that big gap on Wednesdays you can see on my timetable there is meant for club activities, meaning it’s the same for every single UEA student. There goes my archery sessions, and later in the evening society events might fight for your time and attention. (To me that would be literature, creative writing, rave and APES …)

One of my favourite words; twirl, because I tend to twirl whenever I’m giddy and happy. According to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the word might be of Scandinavian (perhaps even Norwegian!) origin:

Had a very lovely weekend indeed, spent most of it sleeping half the day away (that’s what you get when you watch a film with Chris until 4-5 AM), but the other half of the days were spent with loved ones. Sunday evening I attended a carol service at St. Martin’s Church here in town with Hui, and I gotta say; I love carol singers. It’s just so ethereal. One of Hui’s flat mates is a member of the choir, so that’s how we ended up being invited over there. Someone told me he thought it was kind of disrespectful of me to go to a church service when I’m neither religious nor a Christian, but hey, it’s not like I went to mock them. I simply went because I’m such an oddball that I want to experience anything new and different, especially if it’s something not everyone does. Plus, I find it to be beautiful. I do understand why he would find me to be disrespectful because I won’t understand the religious content of the service, but I still cannot agree with him. However, he is entitled to an opinion, so I didn’t argue.

We headed over to Hui’s favourite bar after church (proper sinners, we are), but when we neared the shut gates and realized the bar was closed, Hui threw herself onto the gates, howling miserably at the front door a few yards away. Haha! That was so brilliantly funny! She really loves that bar. So we ended up at Nando’s and had a delicious chicken meal instead. Yum. Chicken.

Billy’s birthday party is on upcoming Saturday, and I have no idea what to get him. What to give to a guy who seems to have everything?

Btw, doing midnight laundry is slightly creepy …

5 days into second semester, and it’s not too bad yet. Work pile is still “light” ( I guess in normal sense it’s heavy?), just finished my 11 pages lab report thursday at noon, so went out clubbing to celebrate my neighbour Tim’s birthday that night. I used to think Norwegians partied a lot — but coming here has totally put Norwegians in shame. It’s normal to go out 4 times a week, and here in Norwich it’s usually tuesdays, thursdays, fridays and saturdays, but could be any day, really. And let’s not forget the flat parties and pre-drinks either! Course mates having a hungover during lectures is not a rare sight.

I went to SocMart on wednesday, which is a the day where all uni sports clubs and societies have stands to try to make you join them, and despite already joining two and not having time for more — I ended up joining at least three more; rave, APES, and literature. Usually, people join like ten societies and never turn up, but I fully intend to go to literature events! LitSoc! Been looking for that since last term! Also ran into five Norwegian exchange students who just arrived a few days ago, and ‘boy was I excited to see them! I was talking to a friend of mine at HKSoc table when I heard someone mention “Norway”, and I whirled around to politely ask; “Excuse me, did you just say Norway?” and you can guess how that continued!

I know I’m normally very dense and naive, but this guy from archery club is either being very friendly or I dunno? “What are you doing tonight?” “What are you doing friday night?” “Would you like to go for a cup of coffee [after practice]?” “We’re having this party next week … ” Yada yada yada. Usually, I’d think nothing of it, but lately they’ve been telling me not to be so gullible …

Right, need to jump into the shower and then go food shopping in town. I’m having lasagne with Janay tonight, and apparently I’m cooking!