vrijdag 24 oktober 2014

Cake, cake, my kingdom for cake.

Okay a bit later than normal. Somehow time has caught up to me and it is pretty relentless. I simply had to less time to write this week. Another annoying part at this point also my mind doesn't help me. Thankfully there's always a dutch blog that helps a lot. Let's start...

Monday, free pizza. Yep I'm Dutch so this day was marked in my agenda. A couple of weeks ago we (as in all the flats) got an e-mail saying that there would be free pizza on a Monday. This is always a great excuse to go out of your flat and to meet new people. Thankfully I wasn't the only one who thought this. I found another Dutchie who was clearly lost here. After we talked for a bit I discovered that he was from a town very near mine. Talking about a small world.

Okay so a this point my dutch blog is acting a bit funny; so the next part comes from my mind.

Tuesday. Two weeks ago I got an offer to present myself to the rest of the lab I'm semi-working in. I'm still placed in two different uni's only I'm more in one of the two for some obvious reason. So today was the day that the presentation had to happen. Thankfully all went really well.
Wednesday. This week is also the week that a company comes to the lab to install an acoustic camera. This is basically a small camera with a lot of microphones around it. They wanted to explain to us how to setup the microphone and how to use the software. Great fun to do because I'll be one of the people using the thing so great fun.
Thursday. The second day of this training. More like half a day of training. The afternoon was of course filled with courses and the evening with dancing. When I got back I quickly prepared some things for the next day because I had to bake a cake for the Freshers' weekend.
Friday. Normally this would be a nice long sleep but like I said I had to make a cake. So got up pretty early made my cake, in my still sleepy mind I used the wrong baking tray. This meant that my cake was flatter than it supposed to be. Still it tasted really well. After my presentation in the afternoon I rushed back home. I had exactly an hour and 10 min to get home, shower, change, pack my bag, cut the cake and run out again. At least that would be in the perfect world. In the end it took me a little over half an hour to get home. Leaving me with 20 min to shower, etc. I was almost ready when the doorbell (Uhm my phone) rang. A friend offered  to pick me up and walked together to the bus. This meant rushing even more. First running to the door. You can't leave a person waiting outside. Grabbed my bag, the cake and ran out again. The start of Freshers' weekend. After a drive of 2 hours we arrived at the hostel. Unpacking and collecting all the cakes. I haven't seen this much cake in my life and to think that we ate most of it during the weekend. After a quick-ish dinner the fun started. Dancing till midnight and then go back to the hostel for some music and cake. Somewhere between 3 and 4 my mind found it time to go to sleep. Normally this won't be a problem but someone decided that it would be a good idea of getting up around 8 again. After breakfast another day filled with dances started. Two workshops before lunch, one of which was country (if I remember it correctly) the other was step. After lunch another workshop this time the highland sworddance. Looked amazing and was also pretty difficult. This was the last workshop for the day after this it was time for games. One of the assignments was to make 5 pictures of faces in places. Great fun to do. When this was finished it was time for dinner. Haggis! Yum!! And with some red fruit and apple crumble for dessert. Can it get even better. Of course it can have some cake :). A quick change of clothes for the ball.  Which meant again dance till midnight after this there was some weird game which involved chairs and people running around. Round 2 am I decided it was nice to walk back to the hostel and to have some cake. Some were already playing music after listening to this my mind told me that it was sleeping time again. The next morning was even worse. We had to get up much earlier. In the end there was still time for another workshop and some nice dances. Round 12 it was time to head home again and find a bed to sleep in. The latter didn't happen before 9 but it was definitely really good after a weekend of dances and sleep deprivation. Thankfully I'm forgetting the water that came from the sky :).

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