A Mixture...

Clearing has officially started on the 1^st of July, we have had a few technical hiccups but the phones are now definitely up and running, it is starting to get busier and some courses have come to a close but many are still available and to find out which ones, visit our website www2.gre.ac.uk or give us a call on 020 8331 9000!

The final decision was made last week and we have moved to the good ol’ greenwich campus, just the way it was meant to be, a lovely traditional clearing! I woke up today morning feeling ecstatic because I was fully aware that we are based at Greenwich campus today which meant the journey will be a lot shorter, woohoo!

I must add, in reference to one of my previous blogs, in hope of not catching a cold, I mean I wasn’t due to catch one until October! However, I managed to catch one in July! The weather change is really messing with my system, sometimes it is cold and rainy, other days it is quite warm and sunny, and the worse thing about this cold is, just right towards the end of it, I’ve gone deaf in my right ear and can only hear just enough through my left ear! Due to the cold, my ears have popped and the right ear is really bad, I have tried the ear drops and they improve for a while but then it reverts back again, now this is an ongoing problem for the past 4-5 days. I think I need to pay a visit to the doctors and perhaps they might diagnose me with an ear infection or a sinus infection which has lead to the ear blockage. Oh sad times.

Other than my depressing story about ear popping, I have just been relaxing and have early nights, haven’t really been out much. Actually, that is indeed a fib... I went to watch Bridesmaid, twice! Once in Wales and another time with family, it is absolutely hilarious. Also had dinner at Las Iguana’s lovely food, and many more dinner dates with friends and family coming up.

I am très excited about going to watch the musical ‘Wicked’ for my birthday, I’ll be going this Thursday evening after work with my sister in laws, I have been waiting to watch this musical for a very long time, and the excitement is building up because I have been talking about with colleagues and friends for over a week. I am also in the midst of reading the book, which is apparently a lot different to the musical and perhaps better. (Books generally tend to be different and better than films/musicals). I say I am in the middle of reading the book, I’m not really I actually haven’t even started I really should!

Caerdydd

I would like to talk about my mini getaway to the lovely city Cardiff otherwise known as ‘Caerdydd’. I went away for about 3 days, got up to all sorts!

My journey began from London Victoria coach station to Cardiff central, the coach journey itself went pretty quickly surprisingly, the coach driver was rather uhm… what’s the word I am looking for? Hmm, let us say ALERT! For those of us who know the road rules, coach drivers must not drive in the middle lane or the third lane also known as the ‘fast’ lane, ohh but my coach driver did! He was flashing his headlights at the cars ahead, and tailgating *shock horror* he even did this during the torrential rain, and that too on the Severn Bridge (Bridge connecting England and Wales! Nevertheless, I arrived at my destination in one piece and ahead of time :) To my surprise on the journey back I had the same driver, so I fully knew I would arrive back to London ahead of time!

During my stay in Cardiff, my and my cousins visited Barry Island, which is a beach for sun sea sand and fun, it concludes of an amusement park, an arcade, and of course the beach, and possibly the yummiest fat chips I have tasted!

We even travelled out to Wiltshire to experience Longleat safari and adventure park, this contained all sorts of amusements, looking at beautiful animals such as Meerkats, Sea lions, Hippopotamus, Elephants and Monkeys to name a few! I also had the chance to go in to a Bat cave; the experience was rather surreal to say the least . The cave was a home to Egyptian fruit bats, and they move around in the dark by producing clicking noises using their tongues, and as they approach an object or humans the clicking rapidly picks up speed and this bizarre method enables them to avoid hurtling onto objects. As interesting as it was, I didn’t wish to stay there for too long, I found my self wanting to leave in case their method failed and one or more came straight at me!

One of the other fun parts of this visit to the safari and adventure park was a hedge maze, which was made in 1975. It is an outdoor maze spread over 1.50 acres of land! It can take anything between 20-90 minutes to complete, depending on how quick one is. (obviously). As a group, we managed it within 30 minutes, which I think was a pretty good time.

Moving away from adventure experiences, I also had some winding down time and went to watch a movie ‘Bridesmaid’ it is rather amusing, definitely one to watch, easy to follow and more than gentle comedy thrown at you, I would rate it about 8/10! In between this and that, I went out to eat at Pizza Hut; Wagmama’s and did some shopping in Cardiff central. Overall, it was an enjoyable trip, who knew the Welsh have so much to offer. :)

I shall update you very soon!
Sonia x