Trying to catch up - part 6: actresses, observing blood, debating... and more!

Outstanding events - #6 (25^th to 30^th October):

Saturday 25^th: After having come back from the Comic Con, since we hadn’t had enough of Japan (manga, anime, video games...) for the day, we decided to watch “Sailor Moon Crystal”! I have already seen all the episodes out so far, but since Isabela had chosen our first anime to watch, “Attack on titan”, it was my turn and I introduced her to the wonderful world of Sailor Moon :P

Sunday 26^th: I had breakfast at Maria Stella’s place and then I went to Victoria Station, to have a juice and a an amazing croissant at an Italian cafè that dad had showed me in September. It took me ages to find it and I was out over two hours just for that, but it was worth it!

In the afternoon I had a quick chat with Josh, a bit of a longer one with Melanie and then I worked on my uni stuff: I had some Lab preparation to finish and a power point to make for Tutorial :) 

After dinner, Isabela and I started looking up various “Wicked” actresses and changing some of the songs to fit a fanfiction centred on Elpheba and Glinda as a couple LOL Now, let me give you the backstory of all of this, otherwise you’ll think I am crazy! Throughout October, I was introduced to all the songs from the musical and I started loving it as much as it’s clear I love it :) I also started paying attention to the different versions of the songs, depending on the singers, and making my own ranking. At the time, as I already mentioned, Idina was my numer 1, Emma Hatton came right after and then there was Kerry Ellis, from the couple of studio recordings I had heard. That night we also found out that Kerry Ellis was the official London Elpheba at the moment and Emma Hatton her standby! So guess how happy we were *_* Yes, we still didn’t know that Kerry would be there only two days longer and that my/our rankings would changes soon :P But going back to the fanfiction... if you have ever heard the songs from Wicked, and I specifically refer to those concerning Elpheba and Glinda (e.g. “Defying gravity”, “What is this feeling?”, “For good”, “I’m not that girl”, “No one mourns the wicked”), yuo know that they sounds very much like loves songs between the two of them. Especially when some (FEW) words are altered! Well, that’s exactly what we did to plan a fanfiction! We changed some of the lyrics and turned them to fit our ship (yes, I ship Elpheba and Glinda) :P

Monday 27^th: at 9am I met the new Evolution lecturer! I was very impressed with him, because I truly do like how he teaches and how entertaining he is :D

In the break between the two Evolution lectures (remember, I have two hours in the middle), I met up with my tutorial group to put together our power point presentations and we finally managed to meet the mysterious eight member, Rose. We had never seen her before, because she had never showed up, but since one of the guys in the group knew who she was he contacted her and she came as well! Our tutorial group was finally complete hahah She is actually a lovely, though very shy apparently, girl! Now we are exactly four boys (Moh, Kash, Harry, Hisham) and four girls (me, Andrea, Lina and Rose).

In my lunch break (yes, this Monday was a nightmare because I never had a proper break), I met with the group for a debate I had signed up for by mistake and we divided our arguments. We were motioning for “Insurance companies should have access to human genetic data”, something I honestly don’t believe in but... what can I do?! I had to debate in its favour. 

Eventually it was time for lab! The experiment of the day concerned blood and we actually had to handle some samples of bloods, which at first didn’t exactly please us girls in my group, but we got over it quickly hahah The problem was that the blood was from somebody unknown, sow e weren’t very comfortable with it...

Elena, Andrea, Coral, me and Laurana

After lab, the five of us stayed chatting outside the building for a while and we were laughing soooo much hahah We were talking about how we all laugh when we feel awkward or nervous and how people find that annoying :P It’s good that we all share that trait! We also talked about Halloween and I invited them over to our flat “party”/dinner. Andrea and Laurana said they were going to come! 

In the evening, after watching “Once upon a time” with Maria Stella like every Monday, Isabela and I spent FOUR hours correcting her law essay. Now, we don’t understand anything about Law, so the best we can do is proofread the grammar and the style, more than the content :P But it was okay and now I am learning some Law things, because so far I have already corrected three of her essays (two more after that one).

Maria Stella, me and a Halloween ghost!

 

 

Tuesday 28^th: this time it was the turn of Melanie’s Law essay to be corrected, but it was on the same topic so we were fine hahah Plus, Melanie seems to be very good at writing essays!

Wednesday 29^th: in the morning I had Tutorial and our group presented the power point we had made on structure and function of cell organelles. I was assigned (or better, I chose) ribosomes, which are kind of my favourite organelle :) The presentation was good and I got A+ for it, so I am really happy!

In the evening, Isabela and I had a talk with Maria Stella about moving out next year and then, when she went home, the two of us stayed in my room for a couple of hours having deep conversation about our friends, our futures and our families. 

Around 10pm we realised we still had to have dinner and then the evening kind of degenerated and a bit of a mess happened in the flat, involving all of us flat mates apart from Josh (as usual). I am not going to write about it here, though, because it’s not fair to do so. All I am going to say is that I felt very bad about all of this and I ended up not being able to sleep for a long while (probably until 4am or so, also because Josh started knocking on the flat door at 3am having forgotten his keys when he went out).

Thursday 30^th: Having fallen asleep so late, I completely ignored my 8 o’clock alarm and slept until about 10... and when I realised what the time was it was definitely too late to go to my Molecular Biology lecture in Whitechapel! That is, for the first time I missed a lecture o.O

Around midday I met with my debate group again, we looked through all our speeches and then we split up for lunch, only to meet again an hour later for the actual debate in the Great Hall. I was dying... i mean, there were about 200 people in the room, I was going to be speaking on stage... I wasn’t sure I could do it! However, I managed and the debate itself was good, because a girl in my team was very fired up and knew how to debate so she fought back to the other team, allowing the rest of us to breath. We lost the debate, but I had already supposed we would, though it was a nice experience... not that I am looking forward to a repeat!