Semester 2 - Week 1

Dear Harri,

It was lovely seeing you in christmas and hope you've settled back into the swing up in Aberdeen. The last two weeks have flown by and I haven't written! Must be out the habit, but i'm hoping we managed to persuade everyone else to start a blog, if not we can just spam them on threads !

I could try and fill you in on christmas but tbh I can't remember too well, and i think it mainly consisted of revision and in the last week I trained for my first job haha :). We had an easy drive up two Saturdays ago I think, then spent Sunday trying to cram my whole course into one day of revision! It was serious brain overload and serious food binging. Monday - death day ! The first exam was shall we put it - not as easy as hoped but luckily the second wasn't as bad. The Beeches medics then went to Starbucks for a well deserved cheesecake (well that's what I had) and caught up about Christmas. In the evening I headed to Oceana with my flatmates , not realising that the rest of Birmingham was going to Gatecrasher. So when we got there, there were about two people on the dance floor, but it did fill up fairly quickly and had a nice first night out. The back into standard week , at the weekend went to the bullring but it ended up just being bra shopping and every possible convo about bras were discussed ! Then we had a game night, of cards and taboo but somehow got quite heated in spoons , and everyone was just shouting at each other. Sunday I spent the morning working I think , I have no idea sorry this isn't the greatest blog haha!

Then Monday and Tuesday we went house hunting, I'm living with one girl from my flat and two from flat 5. The owner of the house we went to see on Monday was lovely and seemed to be obsessed with talking about double glazing! Every room we went into we were told 'also has double glazing'! However it wasn't the house for us and we saw four more on Tuesday! One we really really liked despite the faint hint of weed in the air and pretty much decided then and there we wanted it, we went back to the agency and paid our deposit ! We had a house :). On Friday Alex came up and then Tasha came on Sunday . There was a bake off between flats 36 and 37 on Sunday and Alex being his competitive self had to make the best cake ! And I helped loads :P/ measured flour and that was all. In the evening we went to Nandos and then to see the film The Green Hornet with Katie's flatmates. Then Monday was Tashas last night so we had a catch up round takeaway and the rest of the cake from Sunday and ended up getting back round two for a seven oclock wake up the next day.

And then there's today, which has improved during the day. I went to Netball which is the most exercise I've done from before Christmas but it was really fun! Hope you're well

Speak soon

Jenny xxxxxxxxx

Week Thirteen

Dear Harri,

Finally home! Though it's been longer for you , don't know how you did it ! I was so ready to come home and you will not believe the trauma of getting home.. I'll explain in a sec! Also I can't believe you watched It's a Wonderful Life (can I borrow it please haha?!). I'd never heard of it and everyone was going on about it in bham but we never watched it !

So Friday , the last day , and being all mean we were in till 5 , grrr. But we did however have a free four hours in the middle of the day and so I went back to Vicky, someone in my m group's flat with Becky and Josie and watched Love Actually for the consecutive day and the third time in the month! For some reason the subtitles weren't on, so we just made up what they were saying :) and then at the end looked up clips of Colin Firth diving into the lake in Pride and Prejudice.

Throughout the day my mum would call to discuss how I was going home. We couldn't decide whether it was going to snow and whether I should come home with limited stuff on the train that evening, or if my dad would drive up the next day. But staying did mean I got hit gatecrasher one last time and this time with skittle vodka :)! Which was meant to not taste of vodka.. but really did! So after a quick pre-lash at my flat , we met up with some medics in the car park before heading down in the freezing collld to an empty gatecrasher :O. However it soon filled up and we danced the night away well until two or something! Hafsah had made me promise to come back and see her as everyone else in her flat had gone home.

So i slept there and then in the morning headed back to my flat to tidy up having been woken up by my mum at 8.30 to say my dad had just left. Looking out the window I was a bit worried because it was snowing quite badly but thought it'd be fine!

My Dad arrived about four hours later (it should take two). And we packed everything into the car, I had seven bags in total ! It took us about 6 and a half hours to get home! My Dad has snow chains, which are brilliant when there's lots of snow, but then all the other cars can't move anywhere and go about 2mph if that! And then when the snow clears you aren't meant to have them on so you have to go really sloww . We did have a rather dangerous encounter, and so they went on rather early on , but in the long run probably slowed us down! But anyway we finally got home around eight, having worked out that if my dad had gone in the opposite direction he could have made it to the alps! Tbh I pretty much crashed when I got home, I tried to watch some tv but ended up in bed !

Sunday , I think I just had an easy day at home! Monday, I headed to Alex's before going to the dentist and then went to the Gorton's in the evening. I headed home pretty early as I wasn't feeling too great, but stopped in on Katie on the way home with Dougie.

Yesterday I headed to Wycombe with Alex to buy some last minute presents, and I think I am pretty much sorted for christmas now ! Then I came home and started on the revision, basically as payment for not doing any work this term, I'm going to have to work my butt off this christmas. Today was much the same and thinking of revsing later (though you should come!)

So I'll see you soonn

Merry Christmas if I don't see you before !

Love Jennyxxxxxxxxx

Week Twelve

Dear Harri,

Oh dear, late again! I think I'm becoming Ellie as recently I've just become late in life for everything .. not good ! The film trailer looked hilarious.. I like the interactiveness Harri ;). Might see what I can do over next couple of weeks!

On Friday of last week was our big assessed presentation (when I say big .. like 2% of whole thing but it felt big at the time..). And our group wanting to get a bit of an edge, so we thought we'd go in look of an epidural needle as a visual prop and any extra info. So we went to the women's hospital and managed to blag our way into the delivery suite. All the time with me saying 'we shouldn't be here, we should go back' like a proper wimp. But we managed to get to reception there and asked if we could speak to an anaesthetist. It turned out Tim, a registrar anaesthetist was just about to start his lunch break and so we were lead to the anaesthetists room and given tea. Gradually more and more people came in for their lunch break and all started inputting on what was being said and so we ended up staying for an hour! Thursday was IP day and there was again a 'banter group' , so we had to close our eyes as we were lead from a hot beach, through a candy cane forest to santa's grotto and when we opened our eyes our of our m group was there dressed as santa !

On Saturday was our Christmas meal! Louise who is this amazing amazing person who cooked for us :), organised everything. We dressed up all nice and ate so much that I did go and put on trackies afterwards! We opened our secret santas and I got Forest Gump and 50 first dates dvds:). I then went off to this music concert, mainly for the mince pies and carols at the end , but it was really good and the christmas spirit was definitely around!

This week's been pretty good , had my latest start on monday, 2 :), and the whole day off today! I went shopping on both, monday only to tesco but I bought some christmas presents there. Then today I went to the German Christmas Market and Bull ring. Then to tesco again as its the beeches medics Christmas meal tonight and we bought all the food. We are having christmas chicken ! In fact I went to Tesco last night as well. We were planning to go to the carol concert in a place called Selly Oak but the train was cancelled and the next was delayed. So we decided Christmas film and ice cream was an equally good option! So we headed round to Lizzie's flat and watched Notting Hill, but ended up chatting about housing issues and various other things most of the way through so I still can't say I've properly watched it. Then I quickly popped in on Hafsah, (her room was disgusting though), before heading to bed.

Hope you had a good night last night !

See you soon

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Week Eleven

Dear Harri,

Sorry I never put last weeks on your facebook, hope you found it ! I can't even remember why i didn't .. absolute fail! This week has been pretty laid back, though I've only got from friday to write so I'm afraid I may not be able to think of things to say!

Friday was a nine o'clock start however the lecturer was stuck in snow so it was cancelled and rescheduled for 5 till 6 that evening.. not happy. But after I went into the Bullring and did some shopping :), I was trying to find a usb stick for my secret Santa and I could honestly not find one anywhere! However I did find some other Christmas presents so it's not a bad thing. I met Alex at new street station and after a slight detour to bhs we went home. We were both literally shattered and I had stupidly left the window open and so had a freezing room, so we had a rest in the kitchen, cooked dinner and just relaxed. Saturday, the plan was to do loads of work, go to the German Christmas market and maybe go shopping again, but we really couldn't be bothered in the end. Because it gets dark at four and we only got up around 12 it doesn't leave long to actually do much. Sunday managed to be a more productive day! I had a netball match, luckily only half hour as I think I would have collapsed after much more.. Then we came back and did some cleaning as it was my flat inspection the next day. Having still not gone shopping at around eight we set out to tescos but it was closed ! So on the off chance we walked along to the sainsburies praying it would be open and it was. So I have now sworn to never use tesco again and that I love sainsburies! Came back with indian ready meals for most of my flat and had the ultimate hot chocolate (what it called it in my cookbook), that wasn't so ultimate. .

Monday was another long day with BLS after lectures. Sha came back for hot chocolate (but not ultimate this time). Everyone was at the start of the day going to go out to oceana but one by one everyone decided not .. too cold being the main reason, so it ended up just being two who went, but we all watched the pre-drinking!

Today has been an alright day with the main highlight being free cake as bribery to make us go to a complementary lecture. I am now about to begin on work for a presentation on Friday, trying to put it off really..

Hope you're well see you sooon

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Week Ten

Dear Harri,

It's getting so close to Christmas I can almost feel it :). Though I haven't got my advent calender, true student style I'm waiting for them to go down in price ! But one thing this does mean is seeing you and everyone very soon!

Wednesday I finished at eleven, and then went to pick up some vegetables from the market in the university as I had planned to make a vegetable pasta heaven for my flat this evening. What I didn't realised is that when it said served six what it really meant was served sixty million! And so I have had a mahusive box of pasta in my fridge until today when I came to the decision it was time to throw it all away..

Next day was boring, except one of the groups in my m group had researched relaxation methods in the day, so at the end of the day we all had a deep muscle relaxation session. Then I had a meeting with my personal mentor, pretty routine and then got the train home!

Friday we finished off at 12 and I headed of home, and home home! Got the train with Kaveri, and it took like an hour because we went to watford . Over the week I got to catch up with quite a lot of people as it seemed a lot were home, watched love actually (officially christmas now) and tried to watch paranormal activity but absolutely failed, no jokes I'm a wimp. My mum was really spoiling me all weekend, breakfast in bed, and I had not eaten that well for soo long!

So Sunday, me, Kate and Kav all set off home, but Katie decided we were ordering takeaway so we all went round and then started watching a bit of bring it on two. The this week, Monday and Tuesday were absolute bliss, eleven o'clock starts and the Wednesday finished by eleven as well. Monday was basic life support again and Tuesday was medsoc Christmas social at a place called blu bar, and I managed to make it to the end this time, and then came back to my flat with Sneha and Harriet for toast. Wednesday I had some beeches medics round for dinner and managed to make shepards pie, however, i started a bit late so we didn't eat till around 9.30, but we managed to squeeze in ice cream and another quick sesh of articulate. Now today !! GP and the highlight was maybe seeing acupuncture done, which wasn't very pleasant but interesting all the rest. I've come home cooked dinner, toad in the hole tonight, and then watched misfits for the first time,, it's pretty good actually !

Night, and hope you're well missy

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Week Nine

Dear Harri,

Thanks for your birthday blog :), I totally don't feel nineteen! In fact I had to fill in this form for something (oh yeah, it was a survey for when I went to see Harry Potter) and I ticked the 15-17 age bracket by mistake!

So Wednesday for some stupid reason I went in to the lectures in the morning and sat there feeling crap for the whole morning while most other people skipped it! The person who's birthday it was the day before didn't make it in the whole day :O! I stayed in to practice our presentation, and then went home around fiveish (which is late for a wednesday). It was already dark and as everyone had already gone home I ended up staggering home on my own and created all these horrible scenarios in my head. Such a woss!

Thursday was gp day, which is getting more into routine now. We got to do reflexes where you hit each other's knee. Just watching the guys crossing their legs was really funny, I don't know why and don't think they did either :p. I managed to resist buying anything at sainsburies :), apart from skittles. Then I came home cooked for my flat and then went out and had more lasagne at a different flat as someone was cooking for their birthday. We played articulate after, which as we know is a very fun game ;). We have to have another really good new years this year btw :). However my team did end up being half the board behind everyone :S, we blamed the long day.

Friday, well there was something different about that day .. :). I had a presentation in the morning and anatomy till 6 but once I got home then my birthday really got going. They made me go and play wii with chris, then come back for dinner and then go back to flat 37 for them to give me a card, and all this time I didn't catch on! When I came back they had decorated the lounge with balloons and confetti, and made some really tasty punch! We played pass the parcel, with a really interesting present inside, and had those candles that didn't go out! And managed to spill about 5 drinks and break a glass over the night ! It was a really nice night with everyone and we ended by watching harry potter 6 before falling asleep.

Saturday, woke up pretty late, Kav had slept over so found her on my floor haha. Went over to Katie's later on and watched Harry potter 1, then had takeaway with her and Kav before meeting up with everyone else to go see Harry Potter 7. It was sooo good, best Harry Potter so far! And I had to hide behind my jumper at points. We came back and I did my laundry which was in desperate need because I was running out of pants.

Sunday my parent's came up and we went for a meal and caught up. It was really strange seeing them up here! They brought me up so much food.. and mainly chocolate which completely ruined my healthy diet I had going.

The last two days have been back to the long slog which is so disheartening. I stayed in from 10 till 9.30 yesterday because I had basic life support after lectures. Then today was in 10 till 8 because I had an anatomy revision which admittedly was really useful, as I feel slightly more confident on one aspect of my course now! I did get free curry today though from the Sikh society.

Hope you are well!

See you soonish

Jenny xxx

Week Seven and Eight

Dear Harri,

Sorry I missed last week, you're right once you miss you're chance it just doesn't happen! But I'll try and remember what happened! So Thursday two weeks ago, was an IP day, I was researching basically anything and everything as we were the last people to get a question and was basically anything people could think of. So I spent most my time looking at how much doctor's get paid haha. (I didn't think of that question alright :P) ! We had lunch in the medcafe and it's really bad but I've got in the habit of buying this millionare shortbread things.. but that aren't actually and are just chemical substitutes ! Thursday was Vale Fireworks and Georgie was saying with Louisa, so we all went to see her and then went back to Kav's for catch ups! Then we literally ran back to the beeches, quickly got changed and headed to oceana. I actually managed to make it to the end of the night and then walked back to the beeches .. a good twenty minutes, especially when we walked all the way to a chippy that wasn't open!

Friday I came home in my four hour break and ended up sleeping it all,, going back in for anatomy was not fun! And from once I was home from friday evening study club began! Which was basically working non-stop for my test on Monday.. So not much to share there :P.

Monday morning was alrigght, after the test we hit the bullring although I only bought a skirt , the same one as two of the other people with me bought , so we are matching! Then came back and watched the apprentice with cake. Then it was oceana , but this time it was pretty dead and I came home pretty early.

Tuesday was the introduction to my SSC (student selected component) and basically free weeeekkk :). Alex came that afternoon and basically just relaxed that evening and all of wednesday and thursday. Ridiculously late lie-ins , watched part of ray the film, ate so much, went to tescos and then onto the bullring literally the only time we went out ! On friday was presentation day but went fine pretty well and then went out to gatecrashers :). Was quite quiet compared to normal! but had some different songs, and my fob stopped working so had to climb over the gates to my halls tipsy to get back in. Saturday again, just made some disgusting cake, the mistake was putting jelly babies in, but we ate it anyway and also watched zombieland at flat 37 which was pretty good. Sunday Alex left so felt really weird my room being so quiet but got some work done. Monday and Tuesday have gone well , it was Abi a girl from my m groups birthday tonight , so just got back in from a gay bar DV8 . However it was straight tuesdays don't worry!!

And so thats my weeks

Hope you are good.

I love you and 48 days now till you're back :)

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