Help me, I'm hyper...

Today is such a good day and I’m quite hyper (had a really strong coffee and somehow feel a massive caffeine flash... my heart is beating so fast....) and so i just need to get rid of some energy and share some happiness with the world because it’s too much!!!!

So... what did i do today? What makes me so happy?

I got up... and i went swimming. And I love swimming. And it was awesome. I love swimming so much. Also, I really love my new shampoo... it smells of coconut and it’s just awesome. (yes, you can see, i’m very hyper tonight) So that was great.

ahhh yess... crabbies!!!

Then I met up with Xian Yao and we did some work in the seminar room of st john’s college library and it was great fun! (we do that every sunday. Or at least we try) and i finished my last of three essays so i was extremely relieved!!!! Freeedommmm!!!!! At least for a day or so ;) Then we went to wildwood restaurant coz you get 50% as a student and we had great food and i had crabbies. I love crabbies. So that made it an even better day. AHHH CRABBIESSSSSS!!!! So yeah. That was good. Then Xian Yao went back to work and I went to town and I went shopping for a bit because I was FREE!!!! Ahh so nice! So i got a nice new jumper (it’s so COLD here) and some nice nail wraps (ahhh i love doing my nails, as you know. Btw if you haven’t seen my youtube video yet, try „autophagy live“. You won’t regret it. Hopefully) and a new top for going out. And I will wear that tonight J. Then I met up with the president of the dutch and flemish society and we are gonna organize a joint chocolate event next term. The meeting was when i had my coffee and now it’s 2.5h later and i still feel the caffeine flash... scary stuff. But yeah so that was very nice and then i got back and i talked to my wife and that was nice and then I went to play the piano. I love doing that. Sadly i don’t always find enough time here at uni. But when i do i do it hard J no, i mean, for a long time. I’m learning a new piece, chopin obviously. Ahhhh Chopin i love you!!! It’s a waltz, opus 64 no 2. Check it out on youtube. It’s amazing. Ahhh yessss. So that’s what i’ve done so far. I just realized that this post might be a bit boring for people who aren’t as hyper as me at the moment but i’m sorry... i just had to write this. I’m going for dinner now and tonight i’m going out because tomorrow my lectures start at 12!!!! Yes. I’m hyper. 

Arriving..

This first entry will be a collection of random thoughts and events that occurred over the last two weeks (I’ve been here for like 17 days now)... Let me start with arriving in Cambridge.

It was quite an intense thing. When I was at home i did not feel like going back. I had had only a week in Basel and i felt like I wanted to stay some more, spend some more time with my friends from home, go to SBO training a few more times, go for some walks around the fields... but well, what could i do? term was starting and I had to go to Cambridge. So I went. The trip was exhausting as always because of course I coulnd’t leave this sweater or that pair of shoes at home and so as always I had around 40kg. Not fun. Every time I have to take the subway with all this luggage i almost cry. Or sometimes i do. This time i didnt, because I did not have to take the subway. There seems to be a new train connection. Excellent. So during the entire trip i was feeling a bit down, not really happy to go back. But then my train arrived at Cambridge. I saw the sign „Welcome to the home of Anglia Ruskin University“. I saw the grey sky. I saw the students. I saw the cars driving on the left. I felt the energy. And suddenly I got so happy. Becaue I realized that it was great to be back. I realized that this place is so full of ideas, creativity, energy, determination... I realized that it’s my place. And so I got to college, collected my keys and went to Huntington Road 36, my new home. And it was great. The house is so lovely, my room is so huge and the other girls are so nice. What more can one ask for? I was so happy! In the afternoon I cycled to Cambridge to get food and stuf fand I felt the same feeling. I felt the energy in these old stone walls. I felt the history. And I was so happy to be part of it all. To be back.  Let the second year begin. Let it be great! It’s funny because all of first year, whenever I cycled down King’s parade I felt like it was not real. Like it was too good to be true. FUnnily I still get that feeling a lot. Cycling through Cambridge on my amazing red bike with basket, I sometimes cannot believe that it is true. Yet it is, and the truth caught up with me quite quickly when it was time to move stuff from storage to my room...

ARGHHHHH it was crazy. Apparently storage flooded over the holidays. It was a mess. A Massive mess. Loose paper everywhere. All bags had been moved to different places. Many cardboard boxes were broken (I found Jake in one of them. I’m sure he had fun destroying it even more...) Eventually I found my cardboard boxes. One was not intact any more. I’m so grateful to Ginny and Susanna who helped me carry them over to the house with a shopping cart. But that was not all. My room is up a floor. The boxes, however, were too heavy to be carried up the stairs. This means. Empty them piece by piece. Oh yes. For every box I walked the stairs around 15-20 times. Ahh yes. Great fun. I deposited all the items on the floor. Ahh yes. Great mess. No, massive mess. The entire floor was covered in clothes, folders, bags, accessories, blankets, towels, shoes (loads of shoes hehe) and lego star wars models. (Aaahhh my millenium falcon. How much i missed you over the holidays!!!) and so my following days consisted of the exciting activity of putting everything into my tiny wardrobe, back to storage or under my bed. A few days later i bought some nice posters and i can say that my room looks quite nice now. I still wanna get a coffee table and some more photos to put on the walls but apart from that it’s very lovely indeed and even quite tidy. Yeah, i know, crazy stuff.