Ciao :)
This post is an immediate continuation of the previous one,
but I am going back to the “Outstanding events” format.
Outstanding events - #8 (9th to 14th
November):
Sunday 9th: when I got back from the weekend with my
family, I started preparing things for Maria Stella’s surprise birthday party
with Isabela. Maria Stella was in Italy to celebrate her 18th
birthday and she was coming back in the evening, so we had some hours left. The
original plan was to have the party in Maria Stella’s flat, but one of her flat
mates called us around 7pm to tell us we couldn’t have the party there because
they had to study. Imagine my reaction: I was so pissed off! Though, we didn’t
have time to complain too much as we had to reorganise our plans, tell the
third organiser (a friend of Maria Stella’s, Anna Maria) to come at our place
and tidy up our kitchen. I don’t know how, but we managed to have everything
ready just in time, included a birthday card signed by all the guests, a
beautiful cake, birthday decorations all around the kitchen and the table set
up with snacks!
Eventually, Maria Stella arrived and Isabela and I literally had to drag her to the kitchen with an excuse, because she was tired and wanted to go home... but it worked *_* It was a really nice evening, with music, lots of chatting and taking photos. We also had a session of karaoke with me, Isabela, Maria Stella and Anna Maria singing: “This is me” (Camp Rock), “My heart will go on” (Celine Dion), “Waka Waka” (Shakira) and “All of me” (John Legend) and it was so funny hahaha I am glad it’s all recorded on my phone!
Eventually, Maria Stella arrived and Isabela and I literally had to drag her to the kitchen with an excuse, because she was tired and wanted to go home... but it worked *_* It was a really nice evening, with music, lots of chatting and taking photos. We also had a session of karaoke with me, Isabela, Maria Stella and Anna Maria singing: “This is me” (Camp Rock), “My heart will go on” (Celine Dion), “Waka Waka” (Shakira) and “All of me” (John Legend) and it was so funny hahaha I am glad it’s all recorded on my phone!
Around 12.30am, all
the guests left and Isabela and I finished tidying up the kitchen (Anna Maria
and the others had helped), then we stayed in the kitchen chatting until
something like 1.30am... I don’t know why, but late night conversation often
end up being deep ones! Anyway, when I got back to my room I didn’t exactly go
to bed, because of something else that happened that kept me up until about 3am
(and by up I mean downstairs from
France House), but again I am not going into details because it’s not my right
to do so!
Monday 10th: I was a zombie throughout the whole morning,
because I hadn’t slept much (I had lesson at 9am) and because I was upset and
overwhelmed by what had happened during the night. In the break between the
lectures I came home and tried to rest for a little bit, unsuccessfully, and
then went to the library to finish my Lab preparation for the afternoon... I
didn’t manage, so I actually went to Lab without pretty much any idea of what
was going to happen!
However, Lab was
fine: we did an experiment involving saliva and PCR (Polymerase Chain
Reaction). Specifically, we had to prepare the solutions and the make the
calculations in order for the samples of our saliva to be used for an
agarose-gel test, which was done by the demonstrator because it’s a delicate
process. This test is useful to see the length of the molecules of DNA analysed
and we got the results the next week (I think I made some mistake, because nothing
showed in my result column).
In the evening, I
watched “Once Upon a Time” (episode 4x07) with Maria Stella and it was
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G *_* Later on, Isabela and I corrected another Law essay from
Maria Stella, then we watched an episode of “Madoka” and had a sleepover in my
room, since Isabela’s heating isn’t working and it was very cold!
Tuesday 11th: Most of the day was spend
editing the interview to Dr Wurm and then blogging a bit, until the evening
when I wrote my part of an essay for Tutorial (the one about the debate on
Insurance Companies). Once i had done that, I watched five more “Madoka”
episodes with Isabela and then went to bed.
Wednesday 12th: most of the day I studied
for the Evolution test I would have on the next day and then I had a long chat
with Tommaso over dinner :) I finished preparing for the test around 9.30 and
then Maria Stella, Isabela and I got dressed for... *drum rolls* the Disney
party held by Queen Mary *_* I put on my Tinkerbell costume, while Maria Stella
was a human Ariel and Isabela a modern-day Cinderella. We went to the Drapers,
but we only stayed about 1 hour and a half, because I had to come back home and
sleep to be awake for the test (in the afternoon, but still...!). the party was
quite lame honestly and the only very good part was when they played “Let it go”
and everyone started singing it together!
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| Selfie with a friendly security guard |
Thursday 13th: I met up with my tutorial
group to finish the essay, but we didn’t get too far because half of us were
too worried about the Evolution test to think about that (me included!).
Therefore, we postponed the essay to after the workshop (3-6pm) and Andrea and
I went to the Common Room in France House to revise. Elena joined us for lunch
and it was the funniest (and one of the most embarrassing) experiences ever! They
took me to Subway, where I had never been, and I didn’t know what to do or what
to get so it took me ages to decide... thankfully there wasn’t anyone else, but
the employees were laughing at me! When I eventually made up my mind, I couldn’t
understand a word of what the two employees were telling me, as they had very
strong accents, so I had to rely on Andrea :P She was really trying hard not to
burst out laughing in the shop, but as soon as we got out, neither of us could
hold it back anymore and we couldn’t stop laughing LOL
At 3pm, the time of the Evolution workshop arrived and for
the first two hours we only completed some exercises, that were mostly funny: we
worked with beans to look at genetic drift and then we used a software called PopJ to see how it really works in big
populations (we only had 40 beans per couple before). However, the fun part
eventually finished and it was time for the rather-dreaded test... it was a
true/false test, but it was negatively marked so I was incredibly nervous. Afterwards
I realised it hadn’t been too bad and I had only left one question blank out of 40 (I think), so I was quite happy!
By then I was dead and I only wanted to go home, but NO: we
still had to deal with the essay... So Andrea, Moh and I met up (Hisham, the
fourth member of our essay group, was at home because he had already had the
Evolution workshop days before) and finished the group project. It took us
until 8pm and we were so tired by then that when I got home I felt like a ghost
;)
The evening was a bit of an up-and-down one. We had Costanza
for dinner (remember the Italian girl I met as soon as I got to London, even
before starting uni?) as a guest of Tommaso’s and afterwards Isabela and I
watched the last two episodes of “Madoka”. Until almost the end everything was
fine... but there was a scene in the last episode of “Madoka” where Madoka
hugged her mum and I started missing my family, as I already mentioned in the
last post :( So that night I struggled a lot to fall asleep...
Friday 14th: I missed the morning lecture
because my phone messed up with the time and I woke up an hour too late... I
meant to go in during the break in the middle of the two hours, but Andrea and
Elena told me not to bother, because it was a “useless” lesson. To explain this
let me just say we had that lecturer from a couple of weeks earlier who is
really nice but only reads out form the slides... so it was pointless for me to
rush to lecture! Instead, I took my time to complete some work I had to do on
one of the many Queen Mary Online resources, eGAP (electronic Graduate
Atrribute Program), which I had pretty much ignored until then.
After the lecture finished, I met with the tutorial group
and we went to hand in our essays (two in total, as there was the one our small
group had written and one form the other group) and then I had lunch at the pub
with Andrea, before doing our usually Friday assignments. I like this routine
we have on Fridays because it frees up a lot of time that I would have to spend
on assignments over the weekend otherwise!
Later in the afternoon I tried to get some rest, being dead
from the half-sleepless night, I did the washing and went grocery shopping to
Budgens and tried to rest again!
The evening was messy at first and then a lot of fun!
Isabela, Maria Stella and I had organised some time before that we would go out
that specific Friday night to celebrate Maria Stella’s birthday with a proper
night out in London. However, I wasn’t feeling well at all and Isabela was
tired, so neither of us was in the right mood... it took us ages, but we
eventually convinced Maria Stella it wasn’t worth going out with us like that.
Though, after a couple of hours at Maria Stella’s place (around 11.30pm) I suddenly
started to feel better and we decided we could go out to celebrate. We had
planned to go to a club in Picadilly Circus that we didn’t know... but on the
tube we met Josh (my ghost-like flat mate), who invited us to join him and his
friends at the LSE (London School of Economics) club. We decided to trust him
and we went there. You have no idea how funny it was, travelling with him and
his friends. He was completely drunk, so he was talking randomly and I couldn’t
stop laughing! But he was also very nice and he protected us from other drunk
people in the queue at the club. Because he knows everyone, he also made us
skip the queue after a few minutes, because he convinced the security guard to
let us in quickly :D So, even though I originally didn’t want to go out, I
ended up having lots of fun! The disco was nice and I surprised myself in
actually enjoying a real disco for the first time! We stayed at the cub until
2.30am, the we left because both Isabela and I had to wake up at a decent time
in the morning for different reasons (mine will come up in the next post) :D
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| Saucy is the name of the LSE club |
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| In the middle of the dance floor... with random people! |
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