While I've settled in at Uni really well and consider it a second home, there's nothing like looking out of my window directly over the fields (compared to looking out over Tegfan and the mountains if I push my face against the glass like this and the sea if I push it against the glass the other way, like this. It's good sleeping in my own bed and being able to sit next to a real fire. It's lovely to be able to hug everyone properly!
And eat proper food!
And watch telly!
It's good to be home.
Easter is here once again and Wales is doing its best to show to us just what wonderful weather we have to come back to. It's a couple of minutes walk from one lecture to the next and we were all getting soaked. The weather was exactly the same just before we went home for Christmas!
It's been quite an eventful semester for me, I have been working really hard in my modules to make sure I don't have the mad panic during exam leave I had in January, Dennis and Owyn and their new home, the sub-aqua club and of course my baby the kite club all doing well and providing me with plenty to keep me occupied!
I'm really looking forward to going home tomorrow and being able to laze about in front of the telly for a bit and eat proper food and sleep in a comfy bed. It reached the stage here a week or so ago where everyones' tempers are frayed and the slightest thing can trigger a screaming hissy fit or a deluge of tears. Easter will be a good opportunity to revise a bit, relax and be happy before April's mad pre-exam rush and May, bringing our exams with it.
Hopefully I will get home happily and without any more stress.
Well...
I appear to have been kiting recently, and watching at events too :-O
A few weekends ago it was the first round of the PKA's series at Hoylake, my video can be found:
And further to that, I was out on Monday afternoon with Ally and Geoff at Cockenzie near Edinburgh for some afternoon riding after my morning lecture. It turned out to be a pretty good day on Allys 7m Ion mostly, and using his new board. I've just finished yet another video, which can be found:
Not only that! But I was also out doing some instructing and random riding with Ally (once again spending too much time with this long haired fool!) at Irvine, one of my favourite shots from the day was one of Ally going for a Handle-pass/Dangle-pass,
Well the tank seems to be quite happy at the moment so there isn't really much to update with.
Those who have seen me in the last 2 weeks will know... My hair is now Cosmic Blue, which is a black with a bit of blue in the right light, and I promised you all a picture, so here it is!
Oooo, well well well, I've got to say, even with all the forcasts, I didn't beleive it was going to snow, but this morning the light coming from the top of the curtains as I awoke was more than average... and no wonder, the light is bouncing off a touch of snow on the ground!
Now my only hope is it gets deeper!
Well we had the first of Bangor Uni Kite Club's socials this evening, just a quick one really to get some more signiatures and a chance for everyone involved in the club to ask the committee who were present any questions they had.
There were a lot of questions asked, most of which were fielded well by the three committee members present and all of the new members seemed quite happy with the answers they received.
So far we have 20 signitures (we need 15 to run an AU club apparently) and an e-mail list of 36. The Committee as it stands is as follows:
Ric - Chairman, Liam - Secretary, Sam (hopefully!) - Treasurer, William - Press Officer, Kev - Club Instructor, Leah - Equipment and Training Officer.
We decided tonight that because the Climbing Club has a meeting at the same time as ours (7ish on a Wednesday) we have some members who can't make it, so we've taken a vote and moved the nights we'll meet to a Thursday.
Still going well!
It's been a week now since the new tank was set up and the minnows introduced to it. Since then I've put some more beach pebbles in and today we introduced the Terrible Two.
The first thing Dennis did was spin slowly in the current from the filter for a while, before starting to swim about and eat random things.
Owyn on the other hand was much quicker on the uptake that there were actually other fish in the tank and promptly spent the next half hour or so chasing them around (with little success, what with them being much faster and much more used to such a strong curent).
They seem to both have settled in well even though the water in the 18l is a few degrees warmer for some reason than the water in the bowl.
Hopefully I will wake up with all four fish alive and well.
We found this at the dive meeting a few weeks ago. Most of us decided we're going to play it before every weekly meeting.
Enjoy.
On Tuesday I took my Sports Diver exam along with Darren and Giles. After much deliberation over stupidly worded questions, some heated discussions and disputing of answers, we marked our papers.
Just thought I'd let you all know I passed it so when I can dive again I will officially be a Sports Diver!
