Well, its Sunday again, so here it goes...We didn't get our exam results back on Monday in class. Apparently they had a few more left to score, so we are going to get them back tomorrow. I thought that class would be getting easier from here on out because we'd already done the skull, but no. We spent the entire lecture on the scapula, clavicle and humerus. And all the muscles and ligaments associated with them. It was rough. Then I went to the animal lab to do a bit of last minute revising before the exam on Tuesday. While we were in there, one of the course advisors came in and had us haul in a bunch of boxes of bones that had been brought over from somewhere in a truck. I'm not sure where they were from or what they're doing with them, but they are now in storage thanks to our efforts :)
Tuesday we had our animal bone exam. We got to take it in the human bone lab though, because with 16 of us our lab is too small to take an exam in. I think it went pretty well. I don't know when we'll get the results of this one back either. Hopefully Tuesday, but as there was a lot to write about each bone it may be the week after. After the exam a bunch of us went out to lunch on campus. Then we planned to meet up later at night to go out and party in celebration of both of our exams being over. Stine and I had to go to Bournemouth from Poole, so we took a bus around 8 to meet everyone downtown. We hung out at a pub for awhile and then headed to The Orange Rooms, which is a club that everyone always goes too. I think my flatmates spend almost the entire weekend there most of the time ;) Because it was Tuesday I thought that it would be really dead, but there were actually quite a few people there. One of the guys in my course brought glowsticks, so we were pretty awesome. There was a lot of dancing and hanging out with people that I never see outside of class, so that was nice. Then around 1:30 Stine and I went home. We had to take a cab because the late bus only runs on weekends.
Wednesday I did a whole lot of nothing. I pretty much didn't even leave my room.
Thursday I was convinced that it was Saturday and was really confused the whole day. I did go to campus and get some work done though. I have all the numbers crunched for the paper I'm working on and I have some of the comparative materials. I'm still going through that though. Basically, we had to analyze a bone assemblage and then compare it to assemblages from other sites of the same time period in south west England. Its kind of interesting, but kind of boring at the same time.
Friday I went to the Lighthouse cafe to study. I got a lot of reading done there, so it was good. I've been reading a lot about antler wear because I may be doing my dissertation on something to do with antlers. Not sure though. If not, I'll just have a lot of weird antler knowledge. I also got some of the assemblage comparisons read. Later Friday night I went out with all of my flatmates to, you guessed it, The Orange Rooms. Baitalikee's friend was in town so we all went out with them. It was a pretty good time. At about 3 I gave it up and went home. I was really tired and needed to get stuff done the next day.
Saturday I headed to the Lighthouse again. I was getting a lot of work done, but then a ton of people started coming in. I think they just came early for the 2 o'clock show, but by 1 I couldn't take it anymore and had to leave. It was starting to rain when I left, which was bad because my flatmate Som and I had planned to go to the Christmas Village in Bournemouth Square that afternoon. At 3 it was still raining so we decided to see if it had let up by 4. It hadn't, but we decided that since it rains all the time we should just go anyway. I swear that by the time we got outside it had started raining even harder. The wind was blowing toward our backs so the back of my pants were soaked by the time we got to the bus. It was slightly less rainy by the time we got to Bournemouth. There were a whole bunch of cool little shops and then there was food. We started with fried potatoes and garlic mushrooms, which were delicious. Then we had bratwaursts and strawberry beer. The beer was good, but really sweet so we couldn't drink the entire thing. We had planned to get crepes for dessert, but by the time we'd eaten all the other stuff we couldn't manage it, so we got a sausage and a crepe to take home to the losers who didn't join the wet adventure and went home. So although we were pretty soaked it was really fun to do and it was nice to hang out with Som because I usually don't get to do that.
I had to venture out again Saturday night because we had tickets to a show at The Lighthouse. It was a local theater company and they did just a whole bunch of songs from all different musicals. It was pretty good. Some of the songs I recognized and some I didn't. You had to pay 2 pounds for a program though, so we just chose not to know the ones we didn't recognize. The show was really good and afterwards we went down to The Slug and Lettuce to hang out for awhile. I know it sounds gross, but its actually a pretty nice place. We all just got smoothies, so the waiter made fun of us the entire night, but it was a good time.
Today I went out for Sunday lunch with a bunch of girls from Corfe House. I had roast beef with gravy, fried potatoes, yorkshire pudding, stuffing, peas, carrots, and brussel sprouts. It was delicious and so filling. Then I had to go grocery shopping on the way back. That was pretty unappealing, but that's probably for the best. Hopefully I can get the last book section that I have to read done tonight and start writing the paper tomorrow. I'm hoping to have it done by the end of the week so that I can start on the next one. We'll see how that pans out. I'm pretty much a procrastinator and always have been, but I'm trying to change that.
Side note: I made french toast, sausage and bacon for a bunch of friends last Sunday. I only mention this because the British boys could not wrap their heads around the idea of eating sweet and savor things at the same time. They refused to put the sausages on their plates until they were finished with the french toast. And they even had a hard time believing that you were suppose to put fruit and whipped cream on your french toast. So I'm not sure how much they liked it, but the Norwegian, Thai, Indian and Dutch people liked it :)
So I think that's all now. Here is a like to the few pics that I have taken in the last couple of weeks. And I know I was talking about Ireland in the last post, but it ended up being quite expensive because we couldn't book the tickets until late. Oh well, maybe some other time. Here are the pics.
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