The Scene

Location: My room. I’m asleep in my bed.
Date: 22nd October
Time: 6:45 am…

*knock knock*

I half hear it in my sleep but decide it’s someone messing around in the corridor, and roll over.

*knock knock*

Half awake now, I realise it’s someone at my door so get up to open it.

On opening my door, using it to prop me up, I see a white lion.

Lion: *cheerfully* Morning! Are you ready to go?
Me: muerephhhsdsdveneedtogetdressedandpackmph.
Lion: Okay I’ll see you in 15 mins then!

Thus started my first ‘rag raid’ (i.e dressing up in fancy dress and collecting money for a charity in a random city). It was fun, especially as I got a free ride to Manchester, my home city, where Nika and I ended up staying for the rest of the weekend (in my house).

I learned a lot this weekend. Mainly that I don’t like asking people for money :P But people are so rude. I won’t go into details about the stereotypes, the people who blank you, the people who glare at you, the people who give crap excuses or try to flirt or comment on your appearance (I was dressed as a witch and the jokes got boring after about 5 seconds). Although on entering a pub, one guy’s, ‘Clive! Your missus just walked in!’, was quite amusing.

To the guys who asked us for sex and then told me I sounded Scottish – I would hate to see you when you’re drunk. To all the workers at Subway who didn’t even blink when they saw a giant cat and witch buy subs, thanks for being the only people not to stare at us all day. To the woman doing surveys – I feel your pain, I would kill myself if I had to do that every day. It was a pleasure for me to fill out your questionnaire, despite the fact that it was a bit complicated as I’m living in two different cities at the moment. To all the people who commented on my costume/told me I could make a killing at Halloween with it/asked me whether I was cold/congratulated me on being brave for wearing it in Manchester city centre all day, I love you. Thanks for donating. To all the fellow charity workers from different unis and charity groups, thanks for stopping to talk to us, it was really nice to meet people from so many different cities.

In general it was a fun day, but I was glad to go home! Nika and I went out for a meal with my crazy family, and then went to the pub with Tom. On Sunday, we went to the huge Tesco Extra and stocked up on stuff for uni, had lunch at Nando’s, then went to the cinema to see ‘Pride and Prejudice’, which was better than I expected.

My dad dropped us off last night, and we played foosball with Tom, Ian and their friend Sam who we hadn’t met before. Then I went to bed, got up this morning and went to a lecture, and now I’m putting off working on my drama piece, doing MadEvil studies exercises, writing up my notes, and working on a Wordsworth presentation, all at the same time. I love multi-tasking :P

Lunch is in 15 mins, so I will either edit this entry later to talk about condesecnding lecturers and strange Americans on buses, or I will save it for my next entry, time willing.

Comments will be returned later today/earlyish tomorrow :love: