Monday to Wednesday: First Lab experience and Ball preparations

Hello,

Once again I am very late, so I’ll try to be as quick as possible and to highlight only the main things :)

Monday, 29/09

After a crazy half-sleepless night (see previous post), I thought I would be dead throughout the day... instead, I was wide awake and I didn’t crash at all until the evening, probably because I had a lot of adrenaline keeping me up (thanks to Once Upon a Time). The Evolution lectures were very good, they confirmed my idea on my favourite module: Evolution is what I like the best! In the break between the two periods, I went with Andrea, Coral, Laurana and Elena to the Costa Cafè again and I found out that Coral and Andrea are fans of Pretty Little Liars (tv show) as well, so we started talking about that :) 

For lunch, instead, I went back to the flat despite the fact that I would have lab in just an hour... I wanted to have lunch with Isabela, since she had been away for the weekend, and so I did!

I met the other girls again at 2pm, in front of the lab building, for our first lesson of Practical Biology. Taking a step back, I was meant to have lab on Wednesday with Coral, but I asked to be moved to the Monday with the others and so did she. We didn’t get a reply in time, so Coral went on the Wednesday that first week, whereas I still went to the Monday after having asked permission to the demonstrator. Anyway, they freaked us out after barely 5 minutes, saying we should have watched and read some preparation material on QMplus (the online platform for the uni), which neither of us had done. We didn’t even know what the experiment would be about, because we hadn’t realised we would be completely left to ourselves... We had a microscope and a plate with cells in front of us and instructions to follow, but none of us knew what to do. However, it was a lot of fun and eventually we managed to work it out after hours! We were the loudest group in the whole lab, because we were four, while everyone else was working in couples at the most! For the first hour and half, by the way, I couldn’t even see any cell in my microscope because I hadn’t set it up completely, so I had to use Andrea’s for a while... Anyway, the lab lesson was meant to last 3 hours, but it took us 2 hours and a bit only to figure out how to use the instruments we were given and how to scale cells properly, so we finished half an hour later then we should have. But it was fine, we all got almost full marks (I lost one out of 25, for example)!

The rest of the afternoon was normal and so was the evening, until Isabela and I started an “emoticon-war” in the kitchen :P Let me explain... she doesn’t use many emoticons in her text messages and I am trying to make her do it, so we started texting only using emoticons to convey whole sentences: it was so funny hahaha And so crazy as well!

Then, at some stage, we also Skyped Maria Stella, who was in her flat, and we talked for a while before going to bed :)

Tuesday, 30/09

Tuesday morning I had Molecular Biology and there was a different lecturer, who talked about meiosis and mitosis so fast that I could barely take notes... I didn’t really like him, nor the lesson particularly honestly. In the break, I talked to Coral ad Andrea about going to see “Wicked” at the theatre: they said they want to go as well, so now there’s me, the two of them, Maria Stella, Isabela and her friend Emily.

In the afternoon I went to the hairdresser near Queen Mary to check them out and book an appointment for the day of the Ball (Thursday). I have to admit I was a bit hesitant about that place, but they looked good from the inside, so I trusted them and booked my place!

Then I went back to the flat, I re-watched the Once Upon a Time premiere (because I wanted to see it properly this time, without the grey screen and without being tired) and I had a very early dinner with Isabela. At 6.30pm we went to the Equality Society meeting. It was meant to be on between 6 and 8 and we thought we’d have dinner and go without missing much... but once we arrived they had already inished the presentation!! So we simply joined them at the pub nearby and it was so funny: everyone else had beers and things like that and I was there with a lemonade and Isabela with a juice! It looked weird :P However it was fun, I met some very nice girls with whom to share common ideas and we chatted a lot, until it got too cold to stayt out and the two of us came back home.

In the evening, Maria Stella came to our flat and she looked at hair styles with me and Isabela forever. We found some very very lovely ones and we couldn’t stop finding amazing ones that we would never be able to have... I also looked at Taylor Swift’s styles, but I gave up, because I am nothing like her :P In the end we each found our style and I absolutely loved my choice (I’ll put the final result in the post about the Ball).
During the evening, we also had a very sweet conversation, as Maria Stella said she felt like she had known us forever and that it felt like we were more than friends, like sort of sisters. It was so lovely and we all agreed on that and on how quickly we bonded :D I am so happy about this!

After that, Maria Stella went back home and, I don’t know how, the evening turned to total craziness hahah I mean it, it was so crazy, but also soooo much fun! Isabela and I started having something like 7 conversations at the same time, using the facebook chat, comments on a photo on fb, whats app, email, our uni email, the QMplus chat and proper talking :) I felt like I was drunk, but I wasn’t, it was just being crazy and it was amazing hahaha We went on until about 1am, before deciding it was eventually time to stop :P

Wednesday, 1/10

I don’t remember much of what I did on Wednesday and there are no texts that can help me remember, I have no idea of why. So I’ll be very quick ;) 

In the morning, I accompanied Maria Stella to the hairdresser so that she could book an appointment for herself as well, then we had lunch together at The Curve and talked for a while. After lunch we had a walk along the canal in the campus and it was sooooo pretty *_* The light was perfect, so I took lots of photos, and there weren't many people around so it was also rather peaceful :) During this wal, we got to chat some more and it was really nice!
For the rest of the afternoon, I think I studied, but I am not completely sure!