Thursday, April 27, 2006

Yay!! I got accepted for the Colorado Summer Conference!!!!!! SO excited!!!
Well the last few days haven't been too bad surprisingly! Yesterday I just had 2 lectures and a tutorial. The tutorial was for Biblical Studies which was really bad cos only 2 of us turned up - me and a guy who was clearly still drunk from the night before. Disaster! So our tutor decided that we would go and join the other tutorial group of whom there was only one!!!!!! So we didn't exactly do a lot in that tutorial!! Then I had History and then went for lunch with Fiona which was nice. After that I had Classical Civilisation and that was me finished for the day.
At around 4.30pm I went round to Fiona's flat for tea. I hadn't been to her flat before so it was interesting. It isn't too far away from my flat really, just a 15 minute walk. She shares with 2 girls who study at Jordanhill and are from Lewis. They were really nice and very friendly. They are Christians who go to Free Churches in Glasgow (one to Dowanvale, the other to St Vincent St). It was slightly bizarre cos they had a lot of photos up on their kitchen wall and I recognised quite a few of the people in them, including my cousins' cousin. Anyway, we had a really nice tea of pasta and then fruit salad - good job Fiona! We then watched a DVD. After that I was speaking to one of Fiona's flatmates, Annabel. It was so strange because we then realised that we'd been to a Free Church camp together when we were younger, and not only that but we were in the same dorm!! It is a very small world! Crazy!
Well today I had the usual 3 lectures. After C.Civ I went for a coffee (well, hot chocolate) with Laura. It was so great - we got into a very good discussion about all things Christianity etc. She gave me her views and I gave her mine as well as I could. I don't really want to go into what precisely we talked about because I don't think that is right or appropriate to but it was very interesting. It was a shame that we weren't able to carry on the conversation, though, because she had to go to an Italian Literature lecture.

If you get a chance please have a look at this video (hope it works). It Bury's Chris Brass scoring a howler of an own goal at the 96.6 TFM Darlington Arena on Saturday . Shame they made up for it and won but this video really is funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csQG0ZciFQ

Monday, April 24, 2006

Yay!! All my coursework for second year is handed in. The end is in sight!!! I've only got two more weeks of lectures left (only a week of Biblical Studies). I was so relieved to hand in those two essays today. After I handed them in I took the subway into the city centre and got some volunteer forms for camp this summer. Camp last year was so good so I'm looking forward to it again this year. After I got my forms I came back home, cleaned Zinzan out and then just relaxed. I am so tired still!!!!
Hopefully this week'll be a lot more interesting! I wish there was more news!!

Sunday, April 23, 2006

Only one more essay to write!! I will be so relieved tomorrow afternoon when that essay is done. I have two essays to hand in tomorrow but I've already finished one of them. After this there is no more coursework for this year - YAY!! Only exams - BOO!!!!! I am feeling really tired right now so I can't wait until I have done all my work. I don't really have any news since all I have been doing recently is working, so very boring!!

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Yay!!! My favourites!! These were taken from the Cheltenham game which was played on Monday (the result = 1-1 but we are still in the play off race!!) Not my pictures by the way - I got them from the Darlo website.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Well, I'm going to go back in time from my last post and tell you about my birthday which was on Friday (14th).
The day started off not so well. The daughter of our elderly neighbour called to say that he had sadly passed away that morning. He was 95 years old and was a really nice man so it was very sad news.
For most of the day I didn't do very much, only going to Sainsbury's with my mum. At 4.30pm I went round to the Hackers' house for my party. It was really so much fun. We played lots of party games (Pass the Parcel, Egg Hunt, Jigsaw Game, Musical Foam Squares (a variation of Musical Chairs), Musical Bumps and Pin the Tail on The Donkey), ate lots of party food and even got party bags!!! There were many laughs too!! It was such a good birthday in the end. The party was so much fun,I enjoyed it a great deal! Thank you to Clair and Simon for holding this party for me!!! You're fab!!
I've got one or two pictures of it:

Playing Pass the Parcel - Cath and James

Ben

Bethan

CAKE!!!!

Sunday, April 16, 2006


I'm not really going to write a whole lot today. Just to say Happy Easter. Such a good day!!
I am planning to put up some pictures from my birthday up but will do that when I go back to Glasgow tomorrow and I have my laptop. Just for now though I'll post a picture of two of my favourite Darlo players, Ryan Valentine (of course) and Clark Keltie (I honestly don't know why he is one of my favourites!!). Its taken from yesterdays match which we lost 1-0. Both of them did some really stupid but funny things yesterday and it was really quite amusing!!! I wish we had won that match but we still have a good chance of making the playoffs, especially if we beat Cheltenham tomorrow.
Yesterday morning Mum, Dad and I made a trip to Durham to meet a man who is one of the speakers who does the Summit Summer Conferences (www.summit.org). I am hoping to attend one of these conferences this year in Colorado. They are also held in Ohio and Tennessee. I had e-mailed Mr Bywater because I thought that he would be a good contact seeing as he and his family are staying in Durham just now while he is doing a PhD. So we went to meet him and his family (his wife and 3 daughters). They were really very nice people and very enthusiastic about the Conferences and were really encouraging about it. Now I just have to get my act together and get it booked!!!
So I will fill you in about my birthday very soon when I sort out the pictures!!!!!

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Just to update you quickly...... Had the greatest birthday ever, quite unlike how I thought that it was going to be. It really couldn't have been better!!!! Can't believe I'm 20!! Ancient!

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Yay, going home today!!!! Just finishing off my essay just now! So excited! Can't wait to be at home again!

Happy Birthday Tig!!!!

Monday, April 10, 2006

I'm back in Glasgow now. It is pretty stressful really - I've got an essay to do which is due in on Thursday. I just can't wait until it is finished because then I am going home for the Easter weekend. It is my birthday on Friday so I'm looking forward to spending it at home. It is getting a bit annoying though because on Friday itself one of the guys from school is having a big party for his birthday and then the next night one of the girls from school has planned a night out for her birthday and then to top that off all of my friends seem to be going away for the weekend so I can either celebrate other peoples birthdays or celebrate mine on my own. Not much of a choice really.
I'm really missing Zinzan at the moment. I know it sounds weird to miss a hamster but my flat is so quiet and empty without him. He is still in Darlington because this time I'm only in Glasgow for a few days. I'll bring him back here next Monday when I come back from my weekend in Darlo. I hope that he is being well behaved and not making Hattie too jealous with the attention that he gets. I can't wait to see him (very sad I know!).
On a happier note - Darlo seem to be doing slightly better football wise. We had 3 matches last week and we managed to win all 3 of them. This has put us up to just 1 point off the playoffs so hopefully we can keep on winning. They don't like to make things easy for themselves though so that will probably not be the case.
So I went to church yesterday. Dad and I went to the baptist church in the morning which was nice. The minister was a bit difficult to follow but it was nice to be back there. They even announced that I was back in the notices which I thought was really sweet, albeit a bit embarrassing! It was good to catch up with people again. I went to Gardner Street in the evening which was good as usual. I went there on my own because Dad went back to Darlington after lunch time.
I'm glad that I'm only in Glasgow for a few days this time. I can't wait to go home again!!

Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Well I haven't really been up to much since I've been home - I can't believe that my holiday is nearly over (I go back to Glasgow on Saturday!). Yesterday Mum and I traveled to Centre Parks to visit her cousin, Marj, and family (husband - Ali, son - Mike, and daughters Laura and Olivia) who are having a holiday there at the moment. It was so much fun!! Am feeling really sore today though from the exertions of cycling and badminton and clearly being the Air Hockey CHAMPION!!!!! Ali does not like to lose! Gotta say that Centre Parks looks like a really great place to have a holiday. There is so much to do there. I have been to Centre Parks Whinfell Forest (formerly Oasis) before and that was pretty good - but Sherwood Forest is definitely nicer I'd say.
Sorry I've not got more to write but I've really not got a lot going on at the moment!!!!!