*sigh* I’ve accidentally written a 1,000 word essay on birds. The question was to write about symbolism in the novel I studied, so I started off with birds and got carried away. I’ve also written/have to write about religion, faith, dreams, illness, family, warm/cold/weather, ballads and Western American fiction, ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ and ‘The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters’. I’m already 800 words over the 1,500 word limit, so it’s going to be a looong weekend tearing my hair out and cutting it down.
And once I’ve finished that (if I ever finish), I have lots more work to do, including the cursed MadEvil Studies.

So, I ended up going into college yesterday with Em, instead of Wednesday, because it was my mum’s birthday and we went to Wales. I think only my parents would have the idea of visiting seaside towns in the UK on a weekday in November :hmm: But it was quite fun, surprisingly :) Especially standing on a hill in the middle of a field, with my mum going, ‘It’s just like the country here!!’ Yeah..in fact, it is the country, mum *shock horror*

Going back to college was a bit strange, and there’ve been a lot of changes, but it’s still basically the same place. Talked to about half of my old teachers I think, and most of them seemed pleased to see us. We answered all the old questions – how’re doing, what you studying, how you getting on – got used to the double takes they did on first seeing us etc. The interesting thing was they treated us even more like adults and told us plenty of random things, bit of juicy staff gossip, how much they spend on childcare (!). Oh, and Farmer Dave (m,y Geography teacher) is organising a trip to Barcelona so I might try muscling my way in on that :P I quite fancy some sun.

Well..that was just a bit of a random update. I’m going to try and finish off a few more sections of my coursework so I can hopefully watch ‘Bridget Jones’ before going to bed. Tomorrow I’m seeing Hannah for the first time since the middle/endish of September, yay! :love: