LONDON, DINNER AND PENNY BOARDS

Friday afternoon I headed in to London with Laura. I had to go to a place on Bond Street so we made our way on the tube in the direction of Selfridges. We arrived a bit early which was a big mistake because I ended up going in to Forever 21 and buying a new bag and headband! The bag is pretty awesome though! We didn't stay in the City for long as we had to be back in uni before 7pm because we were heading out for a meal that evening. We were suppose to get the 7:20 train but because we only arrived back at around 7pm we didn't make it and ended up getting the taxi to Windsor instead which made more sense anyway. We went to Zizzi's which is right next to Windsor castle and I had some chicken wrapped in pancetta and some green beans. Yuuuumie.

The whole of last week we had starter session seminars. Basically just an introduction to our modules next year. I've chosen British History 1914-1973, Society and culture in Britain 1815-1851, Tudor Monarchy 1485-1609, England and the age of revolution 1603-1714, History of the USA since 1877 and I'm doing my independent essay (5,000 words) on Race, Gender and Obama. I've just spent a lot, and I mean a lot, of money on books for these courses. All the courses sound pretty cool so hopefully they will be!
I ordered grip tape for my penny board a while ago and it took a month to arrive in the post. When I eventually went to get the grip from the post room here in uni I discovered that, I assume because it was so late, they had sent me two nickel tapes, a penny tape, loads of stickers and loaaaads of penny board posters. In the words of Charlie Sheen - Winning!

PENNY BOARDING // Virginia Waters

On Monday myself and three friends woke up early and walked over to Virginia Waters. They were going on their runs and I was going to do some skating. While I was there the day before I realised how awesome the paths were to skate on. So at around 8:30 am we all went our separate ways and I began to skate. It was so peaceful there with only a few dogs and their owners walking around. Having not been on the board properly since before my operation (back in March) I was both looking forward to a skate but I was also quite scared! Despite this I decided to skate down quite a decline and, oh my word, I was terrified! The board began to shake I was going so fast and the only options I had was either to jump off, which would result in a spectacular fall, or to ride it out. I picked the latter and survived, although my legs were shaking when I got off the board.

The best thing about that spectacularly sunny morning was how calm everything was. The water was calm with only the occasional duck rippling the steady surface, even the dogs were calmly walking beside their owners. When living 24 hours a day with seventeen people sometimes it is nice just to have that bit of calm. For most of my life I have used sport as a relaxing tool but because of certain issues I have not been able to do that for probably a year and a half and it is not the best thing in the world. But hey ho. :) Virginia Waters is a part of Windsor Great Park and is filled with fields, a lake and miles of trees which is very similar to West Wales. A home away from home :)