To be continued..

Hi all,

Comments from my Poly Sc Professor,
I could never have imagined! 

Just a quick note to say as we reach the last week of the semester, my blog will be inactive for the winter break. I've greatly enjoyed blogging, and been overwhelmed with the support from all of you, so thank you! This semester has been so tough academically, but truly brilliant in other ways. I've met a lot of new people, had some academic success that I could never imagine, been too far many concerts.. One on Thursday night a singer called 'Trevor Hall' and laughed a lot a lot... so all in all the hard work has paid off, but i'm ready for I feel, a well deserved rest!

Finals week is a bit of a misery for myself, but i'm getting through it. Completed two finals today, half an hour break in between in Political Science. Two tomorrow, and then one on Wednesday. Not sure i've ever had such a crazy Final schedule with so much to learn. But sometimes that is the way it goes! Best you can do is prepare and be sensible. I put a lot of pressure on myself all of the time, and sometimes this can be really unhealthy. I'm trying every time these exams come around to relax more. Also, one plus to this week is that no one will judge you whatsover if you look truly terrible, we're all in the same boat. But I do envy you if you have 'take home finals' or 'no finals'... yes i'm slightly bitter!

Regardless, we're nearly there and this final push will really be worth it. I can't wait to get home to see my special loved ones after so long. My brothers are in the picture below, really old picture but it was very snowy that year! I'm becoming more Californian, as I complained to my mum about the temperature here..forgot the Antartic conditions that await me at home! I hope everyone has a lovely break, enjoys Christmas and comes back refreshed and ready for next semester:) 

Crazy Finals Prep! 

Thanksgiving

I can't believe it's nearly been a week since Thanksgiving. I really wanted to blog about my holiday, but things keep getting in the way! Anyway, on two of my roommates stayed for the holiday because they are from the New York area. This was really nice because Isla Vista turned into a ghost town overnight and I would have been so lonely without them!Thus, we attempted to cook.. and it actually turned out so well! (see pictures) Really do like Thanksgiving, I guess the English equivalent is the Sunday Roast, whereby we have pretty much the same meal except the stuffing every Sunday. Definitely doesn't have the same atmosphere to it though! So after going to the beach, eating a lot and watching 'Love Actually' my favorite Christmassy film ever, we had a lovely day.

Looking over LA

On Friday, we all went down to LA, stayed in a lovely hotel in Culver City, went out for dinner at The Grove, and made full use of the Jacuzzi and the Pool. Then on Saturday was game day! Actually, before the game we wanted to show Dayna one of my roommates Santa Monica, because she hadn't been to the promenade and the shopping there is so good. Actually think this is my favorite place to shop in LA, mixture of shops but it's really nice and quite quirky. Then off we went to USC. USC has unreal school spirit, so walking through campus tailgaters had been there for hours and there were so many fans, literally never seen anything like it.

The USC campus is ridiculous. It was the first American College campus I had ever seen, maybe five years ago and a huge part of the reason I came here. Safe to say you can see why so many films and TV shows are filmed there. After well over a year of being here, I have to say I am not the biggest fan of American Sports.. but I do understand your football and I love going to College games because the atmosphere is so good, and it is just really fun! USC actually lost for the first time in 16 years at home! Bit of a disappointment but UCLA outplayed USC throughout.. Also, we were a few rows from Beau Mirchoff (plays Matty in the MTV show Awkward) which was some pretty good eye candy! All in all a lovely chilled weekend, with lots of laughs and fun! Roll on finals week hey!

Santa Monica Pier

Something to keep you smiling!