Today is unusual. Why, I hear you ask? (or not) Well I’ll tell ye! For two reasons: first, the fact that I got my first student loan today; and second, that I have a beehive.
Yes, the world is certainly different when your bank account actually has more than dust surrounding it while your hair is piled impressively upon one’s head. Unfortunately, this is also the very beginning of my life of being in terrible debt (no doubt) and one day, a loan shark will come for me and break my legs.
Also, next weekend, boyfriend and I are going up to the Highlands again for a wedding celebration. His mum recently remarried and they are having a 60′s themed party, hence my experimentation with tall hair. This is no easy task, for my hair is so thin it resembles brown smoke, it is only down to my shoulders, and finally, I don’t actually have very much of it. It seems to be purely theoretical. Anywho, much back-combing, hair-spraying and pinning-up later, I ended up with a considerably high….thing on my head, so I suppose I would consider it a success. I ordered a cute little white 60′s mini-dress online (and so begins my ridiculous spending habits that will inevitably end up ruining my life). The 60′s illusion is complete!
Anyway, it has been far too long since my last post. Again, you are not asking why, but unprompted, I shall continue ahead. The reason for said silence is not because I lost my entire face in a freak banking accident, as the rumours suggested, but because I have been a lazy numpty-head. And also I’ve been sorta busy when not being lazy.
From mid August to the beginning of September, I was doing this mentoring job for Edinburgh University. The ELTC wanted young adulty people to help them teach Japanese students (of around the same age) English. Me and three friends went along to their classes and a few evening activities, and it was awesome fun. Me and one friend had one class which we helped teach, and the other two of us had another class which occasionally split, or maybe they had two classes. Anyway, I’ve forgotten, but the point is, we were helping to teach, and it was good. Demonstrating polite conversations, taking part in drama (and making ourselves look stupid), taking the Japanese students to the local pubs and helping them set up their own presentations… that was the sort of shenanigans we got up to. Everyone was lovely and friendly, and despite being shy at first, they all seemed to improve their English by the end, so at least we weren’t totally useless. Of course, there were some awkward moments , like when a Japanese guy who is shy and isn’t too confident with English attempts to hit on you multiple times, and when all his friends keep telling you how cute you are every time they see you, but apart from that it was fine. If slightly embarrassing as my friends watched gleefully from the other side of the room/sitting opposite, sniggering because they know how awkward I felt. Thanks a lot, guys! We also had a Ceilidh which was good fun (though being tossed around by one of the Japanese guys who was usually very quiet and scared all the time was a surprise, and also sort of painful…) and we also went drinking a couple of times. I made one good friend in particular who we hung out with a couple of times outside class and she also came shopping with us and she also visited my flat briefly – I miss the students a lot! They were really lovely. But of course, the world of facebook has allowed us to keep in touch, so hopefully we’ll keep that up.
Kitten is currently trying to beat me up (as always) so this is a short (and rather boring) update. Oh well! If something exciting happens at college I guess I’ll update it here.
shazam.
