lol, no really... actually, it was probably update time a few months ago... but slacking's always just so much more fun :P.
So, what has happened in the wonderfully wacky life of Ally? hmmm... good question
*insert moments pause while previous postings are rifled through*
Started off last term travelling 'round Ireland (both South and North - the Antrim Coast was definitely my favourite :D - though Blarney, County Claire and the Burren are up there - oooh! and bog jumping, how could I have forgotten bog jumping???) with Andy. Saw lots of cool stuff, met lots of grat people and overall just had an awesome, awesome trip (thanks for letting me drag you everywhere around Belfast on a wirlwind non-stop morning-long tour btw Andy - you definitely made it more fun :D!) ... Oh! And while in Dublin I got to see Josh!!! YAY! also, had guiness at the storehouse :). Next was term with many essays and readings (though not nearly as many as last term), beginning with a fun tantrum-and-song-filled collection *grins* (I beleive I wrote a page long rant about feeling as though I was talking to myself despite writing about stuff I didn't care about (and neither did the examiner most likely) before moving on to writing poem about viking raiders-turned traders *sheepish smile*) ... *coughs* moving right along, I ended up deciding (with Tabby's blessing *shakes head* I can't believe you became our coach :P, it was undeniably fun and you were undeniably good tho) to quit rowing so that I could actually have time to breath (inhale, exhale). It was actually probably a very wise descision given that I everntually wound up dancing about four hours a day on top of everything else, but that's for later ;P. Em's visit was fun, took her punting (YAY! Punting :D!!!), had formal hall, attended Hertford Ball, dragged her everywhere around Ox, went to Blenheim on a holiday weekend and watched jousting, had pims on the lawn and acted like kids, went in to London (where we saw the aforesaid-ly awesome Avenue Q) and took a lovely 5 day trip up to Scotland *grins*. Edinburgh's AMAZING :D. I loved it. Just as I loved loch ness and the highlands - especially the part where our bus broke down for a few hours and Em and I discovered the 'Loch of the Legend of the Lost Sword' (no joke!) as we hiked along the West Highland Way :D.
OOOH! Before Em's visit came Alan with his friends involving another good fun-filled punting adventure and D&G's sorbet in ChristChurch College! Oh! And later in the term was Nal's visit with Hertford Sports-day (Go Bouncy Castles!!!), formal hall, frisbee in the parks, (no punting sadly due to river overflowage), tree Climbing with Chris Black and many other food and fun filled adventures ;).
Nal's visit came just after the performances of our Ballet show (we did Elite Syncopations, a bunch of russian pieces including parts from La Bayadere and Cygnets - both of which I was in :D). The shows were just sooo much fun and sooo worth it - I loved every minute of it, both onstage and off, rehearsals were too much fun, you guys were awesome and I so wish I had the time and energy to do it again next year! As if that wasn't enough dancing for one term, Ollie and I decided - a week before they were set to happen - that we were gonna do our Ballroom and latin gold exams :S - How we passed them I'll never know, but pass them we did (with a commended in Ballroom :D!!!), thanks in no small part to Bruce and all of his last minute teaching :D.
With that, five-a-side football games and fun times at the pub with the boys, term was coming to an end... oh! and I also saw Alan Rickman somewhere in there! and crahsed many MCR BBQ's with the american visiting students *grins*... but yes, aside from that... hung around for a bit after term ended and had wayyy too much fun just hanging about, baking up all of the left over food ingredients (those chocolate things we made were yummy! *grins*), playing mafia until 5 am... the highlight of the term though definitely has to go to our crazy double punting trip up the cherwell which we spent reading shakespeare in otrageously funny accents (Much Ado About Nothing :D) drinking pims and laughing at the boys when they decided to jump off the punts :D!!!!!!
Yup, so that about covers my term, *grins* it was a fun one... trinities are definitely turning out to be my favourite - hopefully I'll be able to say the same about next year! Oh! and congratulations to all the Hertford Arch&Anth grads, you guys did amazing!!!
I guess that brings us up to summer then... hmmm... well let's see, I've pretty much just spent it doing the reading for my dissertation and splitting my time between hanging out with all my friends and family and chilling out at home - Basically just enjoying being home for a decent length of time for my first time in a long time :D... Canada day was muchos fun, as was seeing everyone again at Winnie's and hosting our party at Jess's :D. Cottaging and Wonderland with the cousins were definitely also high points! (the New Behemath with Trina was Awesome!!!)... what else??? Much reading and catching up on movies with friends was also fun - wanted rocks!!! as did Get Smart, WallE, 21 and Penelope! (Oooh! I still need to see Ironman and Highschool musical!) I also managed to go see a play and go to dinner with Mrs B., spent a few long but fun nights in Jess's hot tub, got to see Marc :D! who we dragged to the science centre, found awesome drop in Ballet Classes and got to have lessons for a bit with Kimberly Glasco (former NBC principal) while she was filling in *grins very, very excitedly* and got back into Flying :D!!!!!!! (very excited about that one, can you tell???... I also did a silks class (finally!) which was fun, but which we wont talk about as it took me an hour to figure out how to climb all of four feet :P)... also finally gave into peer pressure and read the Twilight series - definitely wasn't as bad as I'd feared, and each book definitely gets better than the last... if pressed, I might even admit to driving Ju and I out to the midnight madness sale of the fourth book last weekend *looks innocent* What?! it was 11:30 at night and we'd already watched 2 movies ;D... actually, I just saw a sneak peek of the Twilight movie on the penelope trailers (honestly, I can't escape!!, it's everywhere)... it actually looks like it might be decent despite how it's trailers have made it look! (don't tell Ju I just admitted to that!). What else - oooh! Football with the boys on Saturday!!! It was soo great to get to run around and see everyone again - even if they have all grown into oversize monsters :P, honestly, you'd think a bunch of gifted asian boys would be properly nerdy and scrawny! Nope, you guys are like tanks! *wrinkles nose* ;)...
So yeah... I guess that brings us up to now... hmmm... and I should probaly go to bed! Off in two days to Morocco, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt before term starts and I am once again in Oxford - I'll keep you posted! (or at least I will after the fact ;) )
Lot's o' Love!
So, what has happened in the wonderfully wacky life of Ally? hmmm... good question
*insert moments pause while previous postings are rifled through*
Started off last term travelling 'round Ireland (both South and North - the Antrim Coast was definitely my favourite :D - though Blarney, County Claire and the Burren are up there - oooh! and bog jumping, how could I have forgotten bog jumping???) with Andy. Saw lots of cool stuff, met lots of grat people and overall just had an awesome, awesome trip (thanks for letting me drag you everywhere around Belfast on a wirlwind non-stop morning-long tour btw Andy - you definitely made it more fun :D!) ... Oh! And while in Dublin I got to see Josh!!! YAY! also, had guiness at the storehouse :). Next was term with many essays and readings (though not nearly as many as last term), beginning with a fun tantrum-and-song-filled collection *grins* (I beleive I wrote a page long rant about feeling as though I was talking to myself despite writing about stuff I didn't care about (and neither did the examiner most likely) before moving on to writing poem about viking raiders-turned traders *sheepish smile*) ... *coughs* moving right along, I ended up deciding (with Tabby's blessing *shakes head* I can't believe you became our coach :P, it was undeniably fun and you were undeniably good tho) to quit rowing so that I could actually have time to breath (inhale, exhale). It was actually probably a very wise descision given that I everntually wound up dancing about four hours a day on top of everything else, but that's for later ;P. Em's visit was fun, took her punting (YAY! Punting :D!!!), had formal hall, attended Hertford Ball, dragged her everywhere around Ox, went to Blenheim on a holiday weekend and watched jousting, had pims on the lawn and acted like kids, went in to London (where we saw the aforesaid-ly awesome Avenue Q) and took a lovely 5 day trip up to Scotland *grins*. Edinburgh's AMAZING :D. I loved it. Just as I loved loch ness and the highlands - especially the part where our bus broke down for a few hours and Em and I discovered the 'Loch of the Legend of the Lost Sword' (no joke!) as we hiked along the West Highland Way :D.
OOOH! Before Em's visit came Alan with his friends involving another good fun-filled punting adventure and D&G's sorbet in ChristChurch College! Oh! And later in the term was Nal's visit with Hertford Sports-day (Go Bouncy Castles!!!), formal hall, frisbee in the parks, (no punting sadly due to river overflowage), tree Climbing with Chris Black and many other food and fun filled adventures ;).
Nal's visit came just after the performances of our Ballet show (we did Elite Syncopations, a bunch of russian pieces including parts from La Bayadere and Cygnets - both of which I was in :D). The shows were just sooo much fun and sooo worth it - I loved every minute of it, both onstage and off, rehearsals were too much fun, you guys were awesome and I so wish I had the time and energy to do it again next year! As if that wasn't enough dancing for one term, Ollie and I decided - a week before they were set to happen - that we were gonna do our Ballroom and latin gold exams :S - How we passed them I'll never know, but pass them we did (with a commended in Ballroom :D!!!), thanks in no small part to Bruce and all of his last minute teaching :D.
With that, five-a-side football games and fun times at the pub with the boys, term was coming to an end... oh! and I also saw Alan Rickman somewhere in there! and crahsed many MCR BBQ's with the american visiting students *grins*... but yes, aside from that... hung around for a bit after term ended and had wayyy too much fun just hanging about, baking up all of the left over food ingredients (those chocolate things we made were yummy! *grins*), playing mafia until 5 am... the highlight of the term though definitely has to go to our crazy double punting trip up the cherwell which we spent reading shakespeare in otrageously funny accents (Much Ado About Nothing :D) drinking pims and laughing at the boys when they decided to jump off the punts :D!!!!!!
Yup, so that about covers my term, *grins* it was a fun one... trinities are definitely turning out to be my favourite - hopefully I'll be able to say the same about next year! Oh! and congratulations to all the Hertford Arch&Anth grads, you guys did amazing!!!
I guess that brings us up to summer then... hmmm... well let's see, I've pretty much just spent it doing the reading for my dissertation and splitting my time between hanging out with all my friends and family and chilling out at home - Basically just enjoying being home for a decent length of time for my first time in a long time :D... Canada day was muchos fun, as was seeing everyone again at Winnie's and hosting our party at Jess's :D. Cottaging and Wonderland with the cousins were definitely also high points! (the New Behemath with Trina was Awesome!!!)... what else??? Much reading and catching up on movies with friends was also fun - wanted rocks!!! as did Get Smart, WallE, 21 and Penelope! (Oooh! I still need to see Ironman and Highschool musical!) I also managed to go see a play and go to dinner with Mrs B., spent a few long but fun nights in Jess's hot tub, got to see Marc :D! who we dragged to the science centre, found awesome drop in Ballet Classes and got to have lessons for a bit with Kimberly Glasco (former NBC principal) while she was filling in *grins very, very excitedly* and got back into Flying :D!!!!!!! (very excited about that one, can you tell???... I also did a silks class (finally!) which was fun, but which we wont talk about as it took me an hour to figure out how to climb all of four feet :P)... also finally gave into peer pressure and read the Twilight series - definitely wasn't as bad as I'd feared, and each book definitely gets better than the last... if pressed, I might even admit to driving Ju and I out to the midnight madness sale of the fourth book last weekend *looks innocent* What?! it was 11:30 at night and we'd already watched 2 movies ;D... actually, I just saw a sneak peek of the Twilight movie on the penelope trailers (honestly, I can't escape!!, it's everywhere)... it actually looks like it might be decent despite how it's trailers have made it look! (don't tell Ju I just admitted to that!). What else - oooh! Football with the boys on Saturday!!! It was soo great to get to run around and see everyone again - even if they have all grown into oversize monsters :P, honestly, you'd think a bunch of gifted asian boys would be properly nerdy and scrawny! Nope, you guys are like tanks! *wrinkles nose* ;)...
So yeah... I guess that brings us up to now... hmmm... and I should probaly go to bed! Off in two days to Morocco, Turkey, Jordan and Egypt before term starts and I am once again in Oxford - I'll keep you posted! (or at least I will after the fact ;) )
Lot's o' Love!