Quick life update

It's been forever since I updated. Not because I haven't done anything interesting, but because I have.

Between my journal, close friends and my parents, I feel like everything I do I already recount about 500 times and anything else, I am too exhausted from the travelling to properly tell.

But I went to Portugal for 5 nights with my friends. We tanned, we walked, we drank and we ate and that pretty much sums up the trip. It was a beautiful country, the coast of the Algarve was incredible and my favourite memory was when all my best friends decided to go out exploring, leaving me with one girl in my group and her three besties. We ended up at the cliffs and took so many pictures and had so many laughs, before ending up at a resturant on the sand, with the waves actually hitting it, that's how close it was.

It was beautiful.

We drank sangria in the sun and I had an amazing time. With people I didn't know until the trip, that was exciting.

Then we came home, and I repacked my bag for a week in Wales. Saturday morning until the following Saturday evening.

It was hard yakka. It was 7am starts every day, with work until 11 at night. But there were breaks for food and the food was incredible. I now know a lot of bird calls, including the Robin, Blackbird, Great Tit, Blue Tit and the Chiff Chaff. I know so much about deer, but I love deer. I know how to identify pond striders by gender, and know why Whirligigs bounce off each other like maniacs. And I learned how to set up experiments and do statistics and all other kinds of cool shit.

Plus I made friends and spent a whole week with English people which was great, because I don't tend to see many English people generally. We played rugby netball every evening and everybody ended up loving it. We tramped through mud and swamps and I saw three adders (the only dangerous snake in England) and got drunk with my lecturers and it was just a great experience, even if we were so exhausted by the end that we just crashed.

Then, one day at home (Sunday) and then 10 days in Ireland with Jen. We stayed in Co. Cork, in the rural town of Clonakilty. I learnt all about the famous Michael Collins, revolutionary, and met all my Irish family.

It was a quick 10 days, but it was tedious in parts. The relative we were staying with was a bit hard to deal with by the end and overall, our assessment of Ireland is the Tumblr quote 'People from small towns aren't quirky, they're fucking racist.' But everyone was welcoming and I had a nice time.

Now I am back in Exeter, with 5000 jobs to do and exams and reports to study and write up. Do I stay at home mostly watching movies and marathoning TV shows when not staying up last reading or drinking with my mates? Yes, that is a fair assessment.

But I can change! Ha.

Hahaha.

Hahahhahhaahahaha.

Anyway, that's my update, I think that's all I can bear writing.