Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Wednesday 8th October 2008
I appologise for not updating this blog this week, I've been so unbelievably busy that I haven't had chance to get to the library to blog. Wednesday mornings is just about the only time I don't have lectures. This morning I am at mumsies because she is going away tomorrow. I stayed here last night.
Today would have been my dad's birthday so that has been on my mind too staying here with mumsie was nice. I'm really going to miss her. I have set her up her own blog though - Lyndy Lou's Blog on here, so at least if she can figure out how to do it without me lol, she can write about what she is up to in Abu Dhabi so that won't be so bad.
Yesterday at Uni I bought my lab coat! Sexy it is - NOT! It is soooooo white. I can't wait to get some scientific stains or marks or something on it then I might actually look like a scientist, lol. Our practicals start this week, tomorrow I have Chemistry then Biology on Friday. White is so not my colour. Just ask my mum! I was thinking of asking if I could dye it black and maybe put some patches on it, you know like Metallica or something a bit more 'me'. Seems unlikely though. The whole class is in the same boat.
Katie and Sam were over here last night too, we all had mums homemade Cottage Pie. Lovely jubely. Sam is just soooo cute. I wish I knew how to put pictures on here, I've got so many pictures and videos on my phone. I also have a You Tube account that I opened for that purpose but I don't know how to convert the videos on my phone.
Since this blog is supposed to be about Uni I'd better write about my week although nothing much happened. Mondays I have study in higher education, this week the lecture was how to write effective notes in lectures which I found funny, writing notes in a lecture about how to write notes in a lecture, lol. Then Monday afternoons it's maths - yuk. I hate maths. This week it was Integers, Rational numbers, Prime numbers etc. I actually learnt stuff and followed the lesson without any problems, that's a first.
Tuesdays I have Chemistry in the morning with Dr David Harwood, my main tutor. He is brilliantly boring. His voice is a bit dull that's all and I don't really understand Chemistry so I struggle in his lectures. We are still covering Matter, solids, liquids and gasses. In the afternoons we have another Chemistry lecture, this one by Dr Roy Lowry and it couldn't be more different. He spends a lot of time teaching primary children and his lectures are so much fun. Full of fun and jokes and the information really sinks in. For example when telling us to keep to scale he told us a story of a guy who baked cakes. The guy used 4lb flour and 4lb sugar to make this cake then he went to Outer Mongolia he wanted to make the same cake but on a bigger scale and their measuring units were Mega Mongolian Ferrets (we all laughed a lot at this) so he still needed 4 of each, demonstrating the ratio was the same regardless of units. On the screen it said 4Mmf sugar + 4Mmf flour = Loadsacake.
Wednesdays (today) is Biology. Only one 1 hour lecture. We have been looking at the basics, cells and their makeup. Thursdays we have Chemistry practical in the lab which we haven't done yet and then in the afternoon it's maths review where we go over what we have covered on a Monday so that's what we did last Thursday and Fridays are Biology practicals which we haven't done yet and another Biology lecture, we did cells last Friday.
At the weekend I went to see Paul and Carly. Carly was just out of hospital having gallstones removed so she was sore and weak bless her. I din't stay there long as I was quite bored. Their friend Phil was there playing the playstation which is fun to play not to watch. Carly wasn't herself so I had to make my own coffee and Paul was really quiet and untalkative, so I went home. I was really tired when I got home, perhaps the week caught up with me anyway I fell asleep by 4pm and slept until nearly 6am!
Sunday I was at mumsies, we just chilled and ate dinner. Mumsie babysat Sam in the evening and I chilled at home watching Bruce Willis films.
Today would have been my dad's birthday so that has been on my mind too staying here with mumsie was nice. I'm really going to miss her. I have set her up her own blog though - Lyndy Lou's Blog on here, so at least if she can figure out how to do it without me lol, she can write about what she is up to in Abu Dhabi so that won't be so bad.
Yesterday at Uni I bought my lab coat! Sexy it is - NOT! It is soooooo white. I can't wait to get some scientific stains or marks or something on it then I might actually look like a scientist, lol. Our practicals start this week, tomorrow I have Chemistry then Biology on Friday. White is so not my colour. Just ask my mum! I was thinking of asking if I could dye it black and maybe put some patches on it, you know like Metallica or something a bit more 'me'. Seems unlikely though. The whole class is in the same boat.
Katie and Sam were over here last night too, we all had mums homemade Cottage Pie. Lovely jubely. Sam is just soooo cute. I wish I knew how to put pictures on here, I've got so many pictures and videos on my phone. I also have a You Tube account that I opened for that purpose but I don't know how to convert the videos on my phone.
Since this blog is supposed to be about Uni I'd better write about my week although nothing much happened. Mondays I have study in higher education, this week the lecture was how to write effective notes in lectures which I found funny, writing notes in a lecture about how to write notes in a lecture, lol. Then Monday afternoons it's maths - yuk. I hate maths. This week it was Integers, Rational numbers, Prime numbers etc. I actually learnt stuff and followed the lesson without any problems, that's a first.
Tuesdays I have Chemistry in the morning with Dr David Harwood, my main tutor. He is brilliantly boring. His voice is a bit dull that's all and I don't really understand Chemistry so I struggle in his lectures. We are still covering Matter, solids, liquids and gasses. In the afternoons we have another Chemistry lecture, this one by Dr Roy Lowry and it couldn't be more different. He spends a lot of time teaching primary children and his lectures are so much fun. Full of fun and jokes and the information really sinks in. For example when telling us to keep to scale he told us a story of a guy who baked cakes. The guy used 4lb flour and 4lb sugar to make this cake then he went to Outer Mongolia he wanted to make the same cake but on a bigger scale and their measuring units were Mega Mongolian Ferrets (we all laughed a lot at this) so he still needed 4 of each, demonstrating the ratio was the same regardless of units. On the screen it said 4Mmf sugar + 4Mmf flour = Loadsacake.
Wednesdays (today) is Biology. Only one 1 hour lecture. We have been looking at the basics, cells and their makeup. Thursdays we have Chemistry practical in the lab which we haven't done yet and then in the afternoon it's maths review where we go over what we have covered on a Monday so that's what we did last Thursday and Fridays are Biology practicals which we haven't done yet and another Biology lecture, we did cells last Friday.
At the weekend I went to see Paul and Carly. Carly was just out of hospital having gallstones removed so she was sore and weak bless her. I din't stay there long as I was quite bored. Their friend Phil was there playing the playstation which is fun to play not to watch. Carly wasn't herself so I had to make my own coffee and Paul was really quiet and untalkative, so I went home. I was really tired when I got home, perhaps the week caught up with me anyway I fell asleep by 4pm and slept until nearly 6am!
Sunday I was at mumsies, we just chilled and ate dinner. Mumsie babysat Sam in the evening and I chilled at home watching Bruce Willis films.
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Wednesday 1st October 2008
This morning I woke up with a shock when I remembered where I was, at Katies. I tiptoed around for a bit until Marc and Vicki woke up. We all got dressed, had coffee, showers etc and got the bus back to Uni.
This morning we had our first Biology lecture. Not much to report there, Janet our tutor was ok, nothing like Roy unfortunately but I don't think many lecturers are. We went over the topics we will cover in the following term, populations, ecosystems, plants, ecology, organisms, microscopy, cells, bioscience etc.
After the lecture Marc went home and Vicki and I came to the Babbage building in the Open Access computer area, where I am right now and I updated this blog, I wrote Wednesday 24th up to now!
As soon as I have done more this will be updated. :-)
This morning we had our first Biology lecture. Not much to report there, Janet our tutor was ok, nothing like Roy unfortunately but I don't think many lecturers are. We went over the topics we will cover in the following term, populations, ecosystems, plants, ecology, organisms, microscopy, cells, bioscience etc.
After the lecture Marc went home and Vicki and I came to the Babbage building in the Open Access computer area, where I am right now and I updated this blog, I wrote Wednesday 24th up to now!
As soon as I have done more this will be updated. :-)
Tuesday 30th September 2008
This morning I came into Uni really early, after venting to mum all night I decided to sort out the things which were upsetting me. The first thing was the computer areas being so crowded and being unable to get to my emails. I was brave and went to the library early. Because I was the first one in there I was able to happily take a seat and I checked my emails and got the course information and lecture notes I had been missing.
I also set up this blog after reading through all the Holly Daze posts I had missed. Good to be up to date! She is soooooooooooooo cute. If you get chance take a look through the blogs I'm watching and check her out. My best friend Vicki's blog on her daughter.
After the computer session I went for a cuppa at the church before going to my Chemistry lecture in the Sherwell Centre. This was a really good lecture, I mean we actually did some Chemistry and Dave was animated and fun to listen to. I came to the conclusion that he must find it as dull as I did lecturing us on the handbook and timetable. Since Chemistry is his subject he speaks with much more interest on it.
The main things we covered were atoms, structure, matter, scientific experiment, serendipity, natural law, solids, liquids, gasses, elements, molecules etc all just a basic overview of topics we will cover in greater detail later on. I sat next to a guy called Nick and struck up a conversation finally! It was really nice to have someone to banter with. He was already friends with a couple of other people who he introduced me to which was really nice.
After Chemistry finished at 12 noon there was nothing scheduled until 5pm, another Chemistry lecture, this time with Roy Lowry. I spent the afternoon in the church. First of all I attended a Learn Greek class there which was really taxing on the brain. I didn't enjoy it much although it was somewhat interesting it was just so over my head. I got handouts with the alphabet and a few pronunciation exercises to practice for next week if I decide to continue.
After the Greek there was a debate group on 'What the papers say' also in the church which I joined in with. This was extrememely good fun. Hosted by Roger Williams who is a Vicar in a nearby church and is a Chaplain in our campus church, we chatted about the recession and members of the church gone bad, Gordon Brown, Football and other articles we found in the papers. Once we had exhausted anything interesting we moved onto what brought us to where we are in life.
There was a girl who used to be a nun but left the order because of bullying which I found really shocking, she is back home in Plymouth to look after her sick grandma and is studying Adult Nursing, there was a guy called Chris which I didn't catch what he was studying but I think he is a member of the Christian Union, he was telling us about his background being brought up around the church and about the church he attends. Then there was a girl who struggles with her relationship with God she said, mainly because she has a bad relationship with her father from what I could gather, therefore a bad self-image due to being put down a lot.
Then there was Maureen the volunteer Chaplain, she told us all about how she had become a Chaplain. Then there was Sophie who works with Roger in his church. I think she is some kind of youth worker but wasn't sure. She said something about being a new Christian just in the last few years and about how Roger asked her to help with the youngsters after she did the course herself last year. Then there was Roger himself, his story wasvery interesting, about how he went to Cambridge and studyied Maths and Philosophy before becoming involved in the Church. This sparked a very interesting discussion on Philosophy and how it is a strange combination with Maths. We chatted all afternoon until it nearly time for my evening lecture.
The Chemistry lecture was fabulous. Roy Lowry was hilarious, animated, interesting and inspiring. Much of the same topics from the morning were discussed with a little more emphasis on Chemical Formulae. We started looking at Chemical Equations and had a few questions set for homework. Roy had the whole class laughing out loud most of the lecture. This is the kind of lecture I really enjoy and learn a lot from.
After the lecture something even better happened, the friends I had said hello to earlier in the day that knew Nick walked out of the lecture theatre with me and invited me to go to the Student Union Bar with them for a drink! I accepted straight away and we all got on very well. Marc bought me and Vicki loads of drinks and we generally had a great time. Katie had been bored and texting me for ages and Marc suggested we all go over her place, so we did!
The 3 of us hopped on a bus, went to buy loads more alcohol and piled into Katies for the night. We watched lot's of Monty Python, drunk lot's of Fosters and had a great time. Katie fed us, Sam entertained us and a good time was had by all. Saleh came home from work about 2am to find us all still chatting and opened a bottle of wine and joined us. We all chatted and had a laugh until about 4.30am when Katie and Saleh made Marc, Vicki and I a huge bed on the living room floor. Marc and Vicki had been flirting with eachother all eveing and after much prompting had a little smooch. This was my cue to fall asleep, I was exhausted.
I also set up this blog after reading through all the Holly Daze posts I had missed. Good to be up to date! She is soooooooooooooo cute. If you get chance take a look through the blogs I'm watching and check her out. My best friend Vicki's blog on her daughter.
After the computer session I went for a cuppa at the church before going to my Chemistry lecture in the Sherwell Centre. This was a really good lecture, I mean we actually did some Chemistry and Dave was animated and fun to listen to. I came to the conclusion that he must find it as dull as I did lecturing us on the handbook and timetable. Since Chemistry is his subject he speaks with much more interest on it.
The main things we covered were atoms, structure, matter, scientific experiment, serendipity, natural law, solids, liquids, gasses, elements, molecules etc all just a basic overview of topics we will cover in greater detail later on. I sat next to a guy called Nick and struck up a conversation finally! It was really nice to have someone to banter with. He was already friends with a couple of other people who he introduced me to which was really nice.
After Chemistry finished at 12 noon there was nothing scheduled until 5pm, another Chemistry lecture, this time with Roy Lowry. I spent the afternoon in the church. First of all I attended a Learn Greek class there which was really taxing on the brain. I didn't enjoy it much although it was somewhat interesting it was just so over my head. I got handouts with the alphabet and a few pronunciation exercises to practice for next week if I decide to continue.
After the Greek there was a debate group on 'What the papers say' also in the church which I joined in with. This was extrememely good fun. Hosted by Roger Williams who is a Vicar in a nearby church and is a Chaplain in our campus church, we chatted about the recession and members of the church gone bad, Gordon Brown, Football and other articles we found in the papers. Once we had exhausted anything interesting we moved onto what brought us to where we are in life.
There was a girl who used to be a nun but left the order because of bullying which I found really shocking, she is back home in Plymouth to look after her sick grandma and is studying Adult Nursing, there was a guy called Chris which I didn't catch what he was studying but I think he is a member of the Christian Union, he was telling us about his background being brought up around the church and about the church he attends. Then there was a girl who struggles with her relationship with God she said, mainly because she has a bad relationship with her father from what I could gather, therefore a bad self-image due to being put down a lot.
Then there was Maureen the volunteer Chaplain, she told us all about how she had become a Chaplain. Then there was Sophie who works with Roger in his church. I think she is some kind of youth worker but wasn't sure. She said something about being a new Christian just in the last few years and about how Roger asked her to help with the youngsters after she did the course herself last year. Then there was Roger himself, his story wasvery interesting, about how he went to Cambridge and studyied Maths and Philosophy before becoming involved in the Church. This sparked a very interesting discussion on Philosophy and how it is a strange combination with Maths. We chatted all afternoon until it nearly time for my evening lecture.
The Chemistry lecture was fabulous. Roy Lowry was hilarious, animated, interesting and inspiring. Much of the same topics from the morning were discussed with a little more emphasis on Chemical Formulae. We started looking at Chemical Equations and had a few questions set for homework. Roy had the whole class laughing out loud most of the lecture. This is the kind of lecture I really enjoy and learn a lot from.
After the lecture something even better happened, the friends I had said hello to earlier in the day that knew Nick walked out of the lecture theatre with me and invited me to go to the Student Union Bar with them for a drink! I accepted straight away and we all got on very well. Marc bought me and Vicki loads of drinks and we generally had a great time. Katie had been bored and texting me for ages and Marc suggested we all go over her place, so we did!
The 3 of us hopped on a bus, went to buy loads more alcohol and piled into Katies for the night. We watched lot's of Monty Python, drunk lot's of Fosters and had a great time. Katie fed us, Sam entertained us and a good time was had by all. Saleh came home from work about 2am to find us all still chatting and opened a bottle of wine and joined us. We all chatted and had a laugh until about 4.30am when Katie and Saleh made Marc, Vicki and I a huge bed on the living room floor. Marc and Vicki had been flirting with eachother all eveing and after much prompting had a little smooch. This was my cue to fall asleep, I was exhausted.
Monday 29th September 2008
I was in early this morning, 9am lecture in the Sherwell Centre which is part of the church that has been converted into lecture theatres. It's such a cool building. This lecture was our Higher Education lecture with David. It was basically about good report writing and we had to identify our strengths and weaknesses, for example I'm weak in public speaking but strong in independent study.
We were also divided into our 4 lab groups for our practicals. I'm in group 3 for Biology and group 4 for Chemistry. All that means is that I am in on a Wednesday morning for Biology and a Friday afternoon for Chemistry. All good.
I hung out in the church drinking tea and chatting until my next lecture which was Maths. I was supposed to have picked up a lecture notes booklet before this lecture and didn't know that because I hadn't made it into any of the computer access areas yet as they are always so busy so I struggled a bit in this lecture.
We were working on Percentages, Ratios and Fractions. Maths is my weakest subject and to not be prepared was very bad. I didn't enjoy or understand a lot of the lecture. As soon as it was over I left and made my way to mums for diner and to vent.
We were also divided into our 4 lab groups for our practicals. I'm in group 3 for Biology and group 4 for Chemistry. All that means is that I am in on a Wednesday morning for Biology and a Friday afternoon for Chemistry. All good.
I hung out in the church drinking tea and chatting until my next lecture which was Maths. I was supposed to have picked up a lecture notes booklet before this lecture and didn't know that because I hadn't made it into any of the computer access areas yet as they are always so busy so I struggled a bit in this lecture.
We were working on Percentages, Ratios and Fractions. Maths is my weakest subject and to not be prepared was very bad. I didn't enjoy or understand a lot of the lecture. As soon as it was over I left and made my way to mums for diner and to vent.
Thursday 25th September 2008
I didn't have anything scheduled for today at Uni so I bimbled around campus checking emails, chatting with people in the church and generally getting used to being around the place and getting to know my way around.
In the evening the church were giving the free meals again so I queued up with over 300 people again for this time mushroom stroganoff, garlic bread and salad. Once again it was too crowded for me and not having an actual friend to hang out with I left.
I went to my friends Paul and Carlys house for the evening then went home later.
In the evening the church were giving the free meals again so I queued up with over 300 people again for this time mushroom stroganoff, garlic bread and salad. Once again it was too crowded for me and not having an actual friend to hang out with I left.
I went to my friends Paul and Carlys house for the evening then went home later.
Wednesday 24th September 2008
Today we had a meet the tutors buffet in Portland Squares Atrium C. Mumsie was in town to lend me money for tobacco so she joined me on campus. Noone payed much attention and I showed her around. She got to eat some of the buffet, (pasties, cake, fruit, tea, coffee, salad etc) and to see my tutors which I think she enjoyed. After this lunch we were free for the rest of the day so I went along to the Freshers Fair in the Roland Levinsky Building.
I signed up for giving blood, got loads of vouchers for cheap internet, free pizzas etc and got a Students Union diary. After this I went and met back up with mumsie in town. We didn't have anything to do in town so we just sat and chatted.
The church were giving away free meals in the hall later that evening so I queued up for that along with 300 other students. We had vegetable korma with rice, bread and salad. It was very crowded and I quickly escaped home.
I'm not back at Uni now until Monday and I am looking forward to getting on with some actual work.
I signed up for giving blood, got loads of vouchers for cheap internet, free pizzas etc and got a Students Union diary. After this I went and met back up with mumsie in town. We didn't have anything to do in town so we just sat and chatted.
The church were giving away free meals in the hall later that evening so I queued up for that along with 300 other students. We had vegetable korma with rice, bread and salad. It was very crowded and I quickly escaped home.
I'm not back at Uni now until Monday and I am looking forward to getting on with some actual work.
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