Trying to catch up - part 5: London MCM (Comic Con)

8 o’clock. The alarm went off and the two girls ran out of their beds to get ready for Comic Con. They were late at the appointment, but not enough to miss out on going with the Anime Society.

Ok, why am I writing like this?! Stop reading fanfictions, Martina, stop... at least when you are blogging!

As I was saying, we met up with the Anime society (for the first time! We had stood them up for every single weekly appointment!) at the tube station and we started chatting with people around us. We formed a group with some girls, Amal, Axel, Teni, Natalia and Maya, and we tried to stay together once we got to the location of the event :) 

Once we got to ExCel, the exhibition centre, we stayed outside taking photos, while the Anime society organisers were distributing tickets, and then we lined up in the queue... gosh, we queued for nearly 2 hours!!

 

 

 

A loooong queue

Jacket + cape

Eventually we managed to enter and the society (42 people) split up in smaller groups, with us being the girls I mentioned before and a boy I had met at the Biology society, Theodore. We walked around the fair for hours, with a short lunch break with sandwiches brought from home, and looked at a loooot of stands :) the fair was big, but not nearly as big as Lucca Comics & Games, where I am used to go, and there were so many people! In fact, it was hard to keep our group together and we lost people on the way, so by the end of the day it was only me, Isabela, Natalia and Teni still together. Honestly, I am glad we lost Theodore, because he was annoying everyone by complaining about everything, about how much we were walking, how many stand we were visiting, what we were looking at... and he kept asking weird questions about porno mangas and posters and he wouldn’t stop!

A stand (sorry for the blur, but I was walking)

Me, Isabela, Natalia and Teni

In the whole day I only bought a manga (“Attack on titan 9” shared with Isabela), a Sailor Daturn key ring and two Chibi Sailor warriors to add to my collection: I got Sailor Uranus and Sailor Saturn *_* I was sooo lucky, because you had to blindly buy boxes and I was lucky enough to never get a double AND to find my favourite Sailor at the second attempt (Saturn). And I was very impressed with myself, because I usually spend a lot more at Comic Cons :P

The best part of the day, however, was something else: cosplays :D Isabela and I had a piece of Attack on titan cosplay each (I had the jacket, she had the cape) and we stopped a lot of other Attack on titan cosplayers, proper ones, to take photos with us! We found so many and some very good ones, including big groups!

 

 

 

I also took photos with/of all the Disney cosplays I saw and of a girl dressed as Sailor Uranus and one with two girls from the anime "Madoka" :D

 

 

 

Trying to catch up - part 3: reading, Halloween decorations, Cosplay and much more

Hello,

Let’s get immediately back on track and see how far I can go before I have to go to lunch and start writing my share of a group essay! I keep promising I’ll bring this blog up-to-date, but it’s hard, because I am literally a month behind, so I have to quicken up.

I’ll go on using the technique of “outstanding events” that I started using three posts ago. I am mainly leaving out the time when I am studying, unless there is something special happening, and normal, everyday kind of things. I am also trying to insert more links in my posts, I hope they work.

Outstanding events – #2 (12^th to 19^th October): 

Sunday 12^th: after I came back home from Italy, I sat in the kitchen for a while with Isabela, singing as we usually do (a mix of “Frozen” and “Wicked”, but at the time I only knew Defying gravity from the latter). The funny thing was that at some stage Tommaso sent us a text asking us to “sing Frozen a bit lower” :P Poor guy!! We hadn’t realised we were being so loud! 

Monday 13^th: during the second period of evolution... we were told that was going to be our second last lesson with Mr Handsome! That was such a sad news to hear :( We didn’t know the lecturer who was meant to substitute him and we were worried we wouldn’t like him.

During the lab session in the afternoon, the girls from my Biology group and I handed in our beautiful poster (look back three posts to remember) and the lecturer was very very impressed with it! He was enthusiastic when he saw it and he started praising our work and our team...  was soooo happy *-* The five of us couldn’t stop smiling for a while! In the meantime, we all had our past lab assignments marked and I got full marks on everything!

The evening was very eventful (I guess it must be a Monday tradition!), as after seeing “Once upon a time” with Maria Stella, I had dinner with her at her place and we took some videos of the two of us doing karaoke :P When I got back home, Isabela and I bought the tickets for London MCM (Comic Con) and looked at cosplays on the internet, as we wanted to be “Attack on titan” characters” as I already mentioned before. Since it was starting to be late and we were loud in a common area, we moved to her room and went on chatting until something like 2.30am and then decided to make it into a sleepover... but we couldn’t be bothered pulling out the second bed, so we squished in one hahah It wasn’t as bad as I thought, because our beds are slightly larger than regular single beds, luckily!

Tuesday 14^th: after going to bed so late, having an alarm going off at 8am almost killed us, but we had to seriously get up soon after and we went to do some shopping, especially for Halloween decorations! I was so dead that I could only spend most of the rest of the day reading, specifically “Raivo” by Cecilia Randall :D I adored that book and as soon as I finished I tweeted the writer about it and she tweeted back awwwww!

First Halloween decorations

 

 

Wednesday 15^th: At dinner, I had a lovely chat with Tommaso about how we like it here, how we are fitting in and settling into living on our own. I wasn’t expecting such a conversation, even though I initiated it, and I am glad it happened, because slowly Tommaso and I are talking more and more!
Afterwards, Isabela and I watched the last 6 or so episodes of “Attack on titan” and... OMG it left me hanging and I so wanted to know what would happened next (now we are reading the manga, in fact)! I looked up the second season, but it’s only coming out in late 12015 o.O

Thursday 16^th was such a lazy day... I talked on the phone/Skype all throughout the morning, with my Australian host family and with my mum, and then I read a whole book! It was “Silver shadows”, the fifth book in the spin-off series from Richelle Mead’s “Vampire Academy”. If it wasn’t obvious, I loved it and i enjoy this series incredibly :)

Friday 17^th: in the morning, I had the hardest Cell Biology lecture ever. I honestly couldn’t understand anything and neither could anybody else in the entire Great Hall! I don’t know if it was the topic or the way it was explained, which was bad anyway because he was going too fast, but it was completely obscure to me at the end. 

In the afternoon, I walked Maria Stella to the tube, because it was her turn to go to Italy, and then Isabela and I went to the big Sainsbury’s in Whitechapel... and we spent nearly two hours there!! To be fair, we weren’t concentrating much on the shopping, but slowly strolling around and chatting. We also bought pizza ingredients for our flat dinner, but because we came home late Tommaso decided to give up his pizza and have something normal there with us, whereas Melanie, Isabela and I went crazy to make our pizzas. It took ages, because I almost messed up mine, but we worked something out and the result was worth the looooooong wait (we ate at something past 10pm!). And the fun we had while baking the pizzas was also worth it!

 

 

  

For the rest of the evening, I kind of ironed my cosplay jacket (which had arrived in the afternoon, for the excitement of the two of us *_*) and then Isabela and I listened to different “Wicked” and “Phantom of the Opera” singers. Looking at my “blog-notes”, I read that I found Kerry Ellis to be nearly as good as Idina Menzel (the original Elpheba) for me! I suppose that at the time it must have been a great compliment, considering my love for Idina! Now things have changed, as I mentioned in the post about “Wicked” and I will explain better later :) To be clear, no, I didn’t stop liking Idina. For what the “Phantom of the Opera” is concerned, I decided that my favourite Christine would be a mix of Sarah Brightman (the original Christine) and Rebecca Caine.

Cosplay jacket

Survery corps symbol

Weekend: I went to the office of the charity I was working for (Help One Child) and I officially resigned. I stayed there to chat a bit with the boss and with my leader, Dunia, and I got also paid for that veeery cold day in Gravesand. I couldn’t believe it, but I had actually made a decent amount of money for being out there just 1 hour!

The rest of the weekend was very media-related. To begin with, I watched “Glee” while having lunch with some Japanese take-away food. I also had a conversation with Josh about his sister and our weekend during lunch and that was something new, since we don’t get to talk much considering how he is always out... The thing is, I like him, he is a very nice person, but he is never around and it feels like our fifth flat mate is a ghost! Next, Isabela and I played “The Sims” in my room for something like FOUR hours, before having dinner while watching some extra “Attack on titan” episodes (there are some funny chibi episodes). Nope, it’s not over... eventually, we decided to start playing “Pokemon Emerald” on our computers and... the thing sort of degenerated and we went on playing until 6 in the moring!! We kept saying: “Only half an hour longer” or “At X time we will stop”, but we never did until it was nearly dawn LOL

Obviously, I only woke up at lunchtime and we had a brunch, with bacon, sausages, tomatoes and toast :) In the afternoon I watched the 8^th of “Sailor Moon Crystal” and played some more “Pokemon”.

Eventually, I had to do something productive and I started cleaning my room, while listening to music :) And that’s when I found out I am not the only one liking Evanescence here *_*