Trying to catch up - part 4: includes plenty of Cell Biology, embarassment and singing!

Good afternoon!

I hope to do as many posts as possible today, so here is the week after the one I just wrote about.
 

Outstanding events - #3 (20^th to 27^th October):

Monday 20^th: for the last time, we had a lecture with Dr Handsome and it was a very good lecture! I even managed to ask a question for the first time, despite how much I hate speaking in public... and our class is very public, considering that there are about 200 people! However, I asked my question, nearly died int he process because people turned to look at me, including the lecturer of course, and I nearly killed Elena for giggling when he smiled! He was still looking towards me and I had to be serious, but with her laughing next to me it was pretty hard!

For lunch, Elena wanted me to experience Nando’s for the first time, so she took me there (we have one just outside of uni) and I actually appreciated my Peri-peri chicken pitta! We talked a lot and I am finding more and more with time that Elena is very funny and a lovely person :) Later, Andrea joined us there and the three of us walked to lab. That session was a bit different from the past ones, because it was a “Freestyle” one, which means we did three different experiences in the same lesson.

1. Plan a serial dilution, including a lot of calculation which I am appreciating more and more as time passes. I realise I am good with maths after all that I have done in high school and I like applying it! Especially considering that this means I can’t mess up experiment, because it’s only theory :P
2. Model some chromosomes and a meiotic process with play dough. It looked like fun, but it definitely wasn’t, because we were watching a video with instructions WHILE trying to follow the instructions themselves and make the chromosome WHILE attempting to make decent drawing of the different phases of the meiotic division! 
3.  Do some microscope observation similarly to what we had done in the first week. That was fine, I did without any problem as by now I have learnt the technique! 

Tuesday 21^st: on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Library, in the silent area for the first time. I studied there for hours, for my Cell Biology test (which was going to be on the Thursday), and I got back home at 8pm, took a break for dinner, and then studied in the kitchen until almost midnight!

Wednesday 22^nd: I went to the library again, but for some of the time I was distracted in reading amazing “Once upon a time” fanfictions (OutlawQueen, SwanQueen and Rumbelle mainly). 

Thursday 23^rd: for the first time, I had a lecture in the amazing lecture theatre at Whitechapel campus, for Molecular Biology. I already talked about this a few posts ago, so I am not going to talk about it again!

After lunch, which I had with Andrea and Coral at 11.30 (!), the three of us went in the common room under France House to revise for the test and we also chatted and laughed :)

Then there was the test in the Great Hall. It wasn’t too bad, not nearly as much as I expected, but I wasn’t ready on the topics from the last lesson, because I still don’t understand much of transcellular signalling..- I’ll get there eventually, but I still have plenty of doubts! After the test there was an informative question about the module and we finally saw the organiser (Ms O’Callaghan) for a while, together with our usual lecturer. I don’t like him, even though I used to at the beginning, so I really wanted to know how she is. From what I have seen so far, I really like her and I hope my opinion won’t change when she becomes my lecturer later on.

In the evening we didn’t do anything particular, but while we were listening to music (and singing) as usual, Isabela found that Epica are having a concert in London on the 6^th of December *-* I was so excited and the next day, after getting parents’ approval!, we bought the tickets for the show!!

Friday 24^th: for Cell biology we had a new lecturer, a lady who stayed just for that day. She was lovely and funny, but not a very good lecturer, as she was reading straight off the slides... we could have avoided going to lecture and nothing would have changed -.-“

As per Friday-routine, did homework in the Common room with Andrea, doing everything that there was for Monday :) Then I had lunch with Maria Stella and eventually met up with Isabela to go shopping. We went to Poundland to buy more Halloween stuff and some decorations for Maria Stella’s 18^th birthday party. Afterwards, we were tired and starving, so we sat down at a French café in Bow, which looked lovely, and we ate crepes... awwww they were really nice! We stayed there chatting for a while and then we walked out, with me stopping at the till to ask the owner if they were French or not (they weren’t, by the way). Everything seems fine... until the owner himself had to run after us and, all embarrassed, tell us we had forgotten to pay! OMG I would have dug myself a hole in the street and disappeared if I could have... I was so embarrassed and the two of us couldn’t stop apologising, giggling and blushing! Gosh, that had never happened before :P
 

New Halloween decorations!

Once shopping was done, we went for dinner at Maria Stella’s flat and we did a lot of singing along with her flat mates, mainly on Disney songs. I was A M A Z E D! In our flat it’s always only two of us singing, there they were pretty much all doing it! And on songs I loved *-* Soon after, the three of us retired to Maria Stella’s room and we played Just Dance, then I had a sleepover in Isabela’s room, so we would be able to force each other awake at 8am the next morning to go to Comic Con (London MCM).