I realised i havent updated since the mutant fly.. so.. umm...

Well, Birmingham was amazing. i wasnt really sure about whether i should go or not, but it was really worth it. With Manchester, i really loved the linguistics course but i wasnt so sure about living in Manchester, or the uni as a whole. with Warwick, i liked it but i wasnt convinced either. Birmingham though, the feel of it was just brilliant. its self contained but not far from the city centre. the accomodation was lovely, even the cheapest had a really nice atmosphere about it. and there was a mini lake there, which on bonfire night they have a massive firework display off went to a taster session for Russian there. it was so much fun, and the people were lovely. i think if i went there i'd either do history + beginners russian or history + beginners german. they dont do linguistics there but the uni was lovely. we managed to miss the rain most of the day and then it hammered it down on the way back to the train station. got soaked ah inwell.

went to nottingham the next day... russian was good there too, as was MES (modern european studies, ie: history + language + language). i didnt get much of an impression of the uni as a whole because i was in talks for sooooooooo long. it was literally talk, 15mins talk 15mins, talk, 15mins between 11:30 and 4. so i didnt get to see much of the campus or the accomodation. according to my dad though, nottingham hasnt bothered to update its accomodation since he applied there so i guess its not going to be as nice as b'ham.

toooomorrowwww i am off to Aberystwyth. i guess this is the only place im still looking at art at... so if i dont like art there it's being wiped completely off my list *sighs* i hate having to give up things. giving up art will be the worst... but yeah, we'll see how that goes tomorrow. its by the seaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

i REAAAALLY want to go to Edinburgh... i want to do Linguistics + Scandinvian Studies there, it looks amazing. i missed the open day, but we finally got a holiday booked which will be on the scottish borders, so hopefully we'll go to Edinburgh for a day. It'll be the Fringe Festival then, so hopefully there'll be lots going on, and i can have a quick look at the uni at the same time.

it really bugs me missing open days... i've missed all of them for linguistics, it seems *sighs*

my work experience got cancelled the furniture company who were going to have the photoshoot pulled out and careers wales wouldnt allow me to do work experience one to one. and you know what was really nice? my school didnt bother to tell me, even though they'd already known for a week and i'd directly been to ask them what was happening about it. they're so crap. i'd never have found out if i hadnt put a note under the careers adviser's door. meh. but the photographer was lovely about it, i emailed him and he emailed back explaining things and showed some of the emails between him and the careers advisers and that, and in one of them it said he thought my photography was "promising" which was really nice... there's still a possibility i could go work with him. if not, i might see if i can do work experience at st fagans during the summer, im thinking about volunteering at mencap (possibly, dont know a lot about it yet), and possibly doing a series of "meetings" at places so its more like course related research than work experience. but yeah.. i was a gutted... i was looking forward to that. it does mean i get to finish a week early though...

that folk festival i was on about was on last weekend. it was AWESOME so much fun, and really good being part of a big group. i honestly never realised how much i liked dancing before... 3 daft monkeys were insanely good. we also found out that seth lakeman had jam and croissants for breakfast (but the jam was late!!) and curry & chips for tea. just thought you might like to know that.. and then sunday, we'd had really nice weather up til then but sunday we were watching the bands at the bandstand and it tipped it down. so we danced in the rain, until the power cut. dancing in the rain is FUN i didnt dry out all day though, no matter how long i stood under a hand drier.. it was good fun. i learnt to play the spoons, so now im going around annoying people with spoons its all good. i keep wanting to dance now though... i want more folk music and more dancing, it was fun.

driving isnt going so well... i cant find the time. i guess i'll have more time in the summer... but im meant to be learning for the theory and having more lessons outside of the paid ones but i always forget or dont have time. meh...

i have so much work to do by the end of term for art, and then they want me to finish key skills as well. it isnt fair, i just dont have time... *sighs*

ttfn, i might update this better later, i have to go do some art now though...