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 !

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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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