I know it's been a while...

Hello,

I realize it has been since November 23, just been busy with my best mate from Canada who came to visit me. I was showing her all across London, we went on the London Eye, saw parliament, took tons of pictures, and we had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with our american mates from all over at the Uni. We also had a trip to Dublin, Ireland which was amazing and we truly lucked out on the weather just like when i was in Salzburg a few weeks before my mate came. Don't worry I WILL post pictures! In terms of Rotary I have already had my third speaking engagement and it is really great to see how the other Rotary clubs run their meetings, etc. I helped out at the Hatfield Rotary Clubs Christmas tent at Hatfield House, and was invited to do portraits of people. It was a chilly day but many people came out and visited Santa's grotto which was beautifully decorated!

My assessment went really well with my tutor, handed in my essay two weeks in advance and now I am just working on a few things going to the studio today and a little bit tomorrow for attendance stuff.
They make you swipe in your student card here so they can keep track of you, very interesting concept haha. While my mate was here we got to see the new Harry Potter film, and that was exciting as well since we saw it in London! What an experience. We were also invited to a Rotary Jenga night where we played jenga throughout the night against each other in a tournament style. We also saw a great play : BILLY ELLIOT at the Victoria Palace Theatre, what a great play full of dancing singing and history. I enjoyed it indeed.

I also recently completed my teachers college application and submitted to my university whilst I was away, so now I must wait eagerly until April 2011 to hear of the results. In the meantime i have just been doing my rotary visits my last one for the year was to the Rotary Club of Hoddesdon on Dec 6. I was just recently in Madrid Spain over the weekend and had a lovely time with my mates. I have a minor in Spanish modern languages so I was very pleased to be able to use the language. More pictures of that as well. This blog has a slow uploading time so I can only upload them one at a time.

This week I am preparing for my trip to the middle east for my christmas holiday so running around getting last minute things like gluten free food, etc, and I still need to pack.
Well that is my update of the last 3 weeks or so. It will be 3 months since I have arrived on the 18th and I cannot wait to have a great christmas with family I have not seen in a while!

Cheers happy christmas and happy new year!