As you can tell, it is no longer Sunday. In fact...it's almost the following Sunday. This week has been absolutely NUTS!! Plans were made and changed and now there's nothing to do but sit in the sun, which I'm currently doing, and relax with a book/homework. Mmmmm. This is seriously the best weather of my LIFE!!! Man, I love outside. Ok, so, like last time, I've kind of forgotten some events of my week, so just fill in the blanks with your own stories. Sweet. I posted on Tuesday so I'll start with Wednesday.
Last Wednesday I can only remember that I went to class and got assigned a group presentation. I decided to be in the first group so that after I was done with that, I wouldn't have to worry about anything in that class. Then that night was our Big Read project thing. My group didn't go that night but all the participants had to be there as the audience. So I did that and then we were supposed to meet after but one of the girls in my group went on a date instead and then the rest of us were kinda burnt out so...we just didn't meet.
Thursday I had class and then I worked on my Big Read project. I can't remember if I've talked about this before. Basically, my poetry teacher got together with the history teacher and they decided it'd be a good idea to make us do a project about a UK poet. It was seriously the dumbest project I've had to do in a long time. But there was a 10 pound gift card to each person in the winning group...so we worked hard. Thursday night we presented and it was crazy. One of the guys in my group was doing the biggest chunk of the presentation and while we were practicing he just said like two things and he was telling us that he was better at making up things on the spot. Whatever, right? Well, we get to his turn and he stands up, and holy cow!!! He went on for out 15 minutes on the extensive influence of our poet and he was quoting things that I've never even read before but it was all accurate! It was incredible. And we should have won, but we didn't. But it's alright. After that, I had to go pack because I was leaving for Berlin! So I went and packed and showered and then at 12:30, my group left for the bus and we made it to the airport but it was too early to check in so we slept on the floor. Then we checked in and got on the plane and slept on the plane and landed in Berlin and took a train to our hostel. We weren't allowed to check in until 2:00 though and when we got there it was 10:00. So we just had to walk around. So that was Friday. We just hung out. We found this awesome Church and instead of going in, we took a nap on the lawn out front. Haha. For dinner, we went to this restaurant and my friend ordered a knuckle of pork. None of us knew what that was but she knew she liked pork. When they brought it out...it was literally the knuckle of a pig! GROSS!! It was still covered in the skin and looked like a pig's foot. It was the most disgusting thing....ugh. She ate it but mostly she just picked at it and made it look like she'd eaten it. But one of the guys ordered the same thing and he ate ALL OF IT! Nasty!!!!
Saturday we got up and went on a bike tour. It was great! We saw so much of Berlin and learned all this stuff about buildings and history. It was really interesting. Then we went back to the train station and our train just didn't come. So we were all worried that we weren't going to make our flight but then another train came and we made it just fine. We got back to our house at 4:00. My feet have never hurt so bad in my life as they did on that trip. I wore my Converse and when I took them off, my toes were so jank. I've got blisters on top of my blisters and on the bottoms of my feet and my right foot feels like I have a stress fracture on the bone! It's getting better but if I walk on it too much it hurts really bad.
Sunday, I slept in. Then I tried to do a little homework but I was so unmotivated so I only got like two things done. Then I didn't have class at all on Monday so I finished a lot there. Tuesday I presented with my group and got that out of the way and then my other teacher moved a big project to next week and we were all SO HAPPY it was ridiculous. Then...I told myself I was going to get a lot done before I left for Italy on Thursday but I didn't...but that turned out to be alright. Tuesday night I played volleyball with some friends for like 3 hours. It was so much fun. We played until it was pitch black outside and we couldn't see the ball anymore, then we went inside and watched the Sound of Music because some people are in Austria for this break and they wanted to watch it before they left.
Wednesday was...eh. I woke up and did some homework and then I went shopping with my roommates and then we came back and went to class. That night, we were packing and getting ready to go and I just got this feeling like I didn't want to go on this trip. I was packing and thinking about how much I just didn't want to go. So I talked to one of the girls going and she said she understood and she told me that I definitely didn't have to. I went in and talked to the other girls going and I just told them that I wasn't going to go and that I wanted them to have a good time without me. They were upset at first but in the end, I think they understood.
But that night, they were up late and I didn't want to be in the room while they were still planning and everything so I went in the kitchen and skyped people but then I realized that my roommates had gone to bed without me saying goodbye to them so I figured I should just stay up all night and say goodbye to them in the morning. So I did! Hah. I was skyping so it wasn't hard but I did get pretty tired. I made it all night though and in the morning, our goodbye was really anti-climactic and I kinda regretted being up. Hah, it was whatever.
Yesterday was just a really good day. It was one of the best days I've had here. Skyping my people, combined with the lifted stress from that trip and unpacking and just being by myself was amazing. And after they left, I got some homework done and then one of the guys from upstairs came down and made breakfast and made me some breakfast and we just hung out until he left to meet up with his family and then I went shopping with the other girl that stayed and we had a great time and we got smoothies and just walked around. I even decided to wear some new clothes yesterday and it was just a good day. I got back and watched a movie then had dinner with a friend and then skyped people again and then went to bed early and I just woke up about three hours ago. I'm gonna get a lot done today and it's just gonna be good. I've been sitting in the sun and my friend came out and talked to me and he told me not to get sunburned but to 'ration my sun exposure and build up my tolerance' haha. Ok.
No one gets back until late on Sunday and even they are in the other house so I'm alone until Monday morning when my roommates get back. I might go to London and see Wicked. I found some cheap tickets. I might just stay in Oxford and walk around and appreciate where I'm living. Who knows? The world is my oyster!
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