Frustration!
Oh what a wonderful day Matt, Cyril and I planned today! The sky was clear and we were ready to leave Exeter for the day. We wanted to head to the beach - see some of the country on the way and have a relaxing time before everything started up again tomorrow. Around 2pm, Thea got home and we were ready to go! We grabbed our coats and cameras and started walking to the coach station. Not five minutes into our journey it started raining. We decided to continue because there is always going to be rain in Exeter (sound familiar?). But it got so heavy that by the time we reached the coach we looked at each other and decided against continuing. Our trousers were absolutely soaked up to our knees and sitting for half and hours in a coach in this condition did not sound so appealing. So I regret to say that our perfect day out was forcefully cancelled and thus there are no pictures to show you!
On our way home we did stop at Tesco for some food - which I later made into a wonderful dinner of pasta, bacon, and fried tomatoes. It was really good! :) The walk home was awful though - it seemed to take forever and the cold and rain just had a bad affect on our hands etc.
Speaking of rain, I am not sure if I have told you about my wonderful night on Wednesday! If I have, forgive me. Wednesday night was the graduate buffet reception of SHiPS (my school - it stands for School of History, Politics, and Sociology). It was fabulous once we got there - the food was great and wine and juice were everywhere. It is really strange to have all these school functions with so much alcohol. This is the third event within my school and all have included wine. What is even more funny is the number of pubs on campus alone - there are at least seven different ones. It is really nice to hang out in one of these areas after lectures with some mates though. Anyways, back to Wednesday. As I was getting ready for the evening - getting all dressed up as it was a formal event - I checked the weather and nothing serious was mentioned. I walked to the end of my street where I was meeting Tom, my friend from my degree, and his girlfriend. As I was waiting, the sky opened! I had an umbrella but it really didn't matter. By the time we made it to Reed Hall where the dinner was (it is on the other side of campus from our houses) the water was so heavy my trousers were barely staying up. We looked like complete disasters. We were almost in the middle of a huge car accident, too - three cars just missed each other at an intersection right as we were crossing the street. The speaker said, unfortunately, the weather is always like it on the night of the reception! Oh well.
After the dinner, we went to the postgrad center to watch some footie and hang out. It was really good because I got to know a lot of people I have modules with but don't get to talk to very often. There is an English guy who has been living in San Jose for eight years so it was fun to talk to him because we both have so many attachments here and there.
Well, that's my frustration with rain - but really I'm not too bothered with it!! The rain here gets heavy quite often but when it's not, it is a really light mist so it easy to get used to.
I must go to bed now... long week ahead! xxx
On our way home we did stop at Tesco for some food - which I later made into a wonderful dinner of pasta, bacon, and fried tomatoes. It was really good! :) The walk home was awful though - it seemed to take forever and the cold and rain just had a bad affect on our hands etc.
Speaking of rain, I am not sure if I have told you about my wonderful night on Wednesday! If I have, forgive me. Wednesday night was the graduate buffet reception of SHiPS (my school - it stands for School of History, Politics, and Sociology). It was fabulous once we got there - the food was great and wine and juice were everywhere. It is really strange to have all these school functions with so much alcohol. This is the third event within my school and all have included wine. What is even more funny is the number of pubs on campus alone - there are at least seven different ones. It is really nice to hang out in one of these areas after lectures with some mates though. Anyways, back to Wednesday. As I was getting ready for the evening - getting all dressed up as it was a formal event - I checked the weather and nothing serious was mentioned. I walked to the end of my street where I was meeting Tom, my friend from my degree, and his girlfriend. As I was waiting, the sky opened! I had an umbrella but it really didn't matter. By the time we made it to Reed Hall where the dinner was (it is on the other side of campus from our houses) the water was so heavy my trousers were barely staying up. We looked like complete disasters. We were almost in the middle of a huge car accident, too - three cars just missed each other at an intersection right as we were crossing the street. The speaker said, unfortunately, the weather is always like it on the night of the reception! Oh well.
After the dinner, we went to the postgrad center to watch some footie and hang out. It was really good because I got to know a lot of people I have modules with but don't get to talk to very often. There is an English guy who has been living in San Jose for eight years so it was fun to talk to him because we both have so many attachments here and there.
Well, that's my frustration with rain - but really I'm not too bothered with it!! The rain here gets heavy quite often but when it's not, it is a really light mist so it easy to get used to.
I must go to bed now... long week ahead! xxx
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