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London, Ontario, Canada
My names Emma =] I am at Lancaster university studying Earth and Environmental science, but am currently on exchange at the University of Western Ontario, Canada! I am a dancer, climber and mountineer and am studying karate. I am a christian and love life! This blog is an attempt to document all the things I do. Enjoy! :D

Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Barn dance and Lancaster !

well howdy there!!! went to the barn dance at church on sat night ... the less said about the burnt hot pot the better ....

The first few days here have been ... interesting. still getting to know alot of people, met so many its hard to keep track. mum, dad and vicky left without a tear, but promised to buy me more cushions =]. met the people in my flat, in our triangle kitchen. i have to say the baked potato night was very tasty and after we decided to bring the 'party' back to the flat. hed a txt from Matt at about 2.30am asking me to go and see his kitchen ... (campus is cold at 2.30am in ur PJ's) went on a 'white t'shirt' party' last night, which was really a bar crawl around campus in which the intent was to show all the other colleges that Lonsdale IS THE best. went to meet the Environmental Science dept yesterday. me and a girl called Rachel had some fun trying to understand how the course works. got a posh 'do' tonight, should be fun!

x

Monday, 22 September 2008

THINGS THAT GO ‘BUMP’ IN THE NIGHT

Spent most of the week getting things ready for Lancaster and worrying about my finances. I can no longer see the floor in the ‘expedition room’ for so many boxes full of clothes, plates, and copious amounts of stationary and cushions. Also my laptop is dead …
Got up early on Saturday morning as me and Vicky were getting the train to Liverpool to go to Awesome walls climbing centre … little did we know that we s=would get hopelessly lost on the way and would spend 2 hours walking round Liverpool trying to find it. We since discovered that the older proportion of the generation do not know where local climbing walls are and there was infact a station right by awesome walls. We crossed m-ways, canals and jumped over walls to get there. Once we were there we had lunch and a rest to regain out strength. Spent a good 30mins in the crypt boldering, and then did some good walls and the pinnacle. Did a few 5a’s. Our rock shoes are holding out pretty well!
Went out for a last meal out at Chiquitoes on Saturday night at 9pm. Met Claire, Bex, Rachel and Emma, Eddy, Adam, Jon and Samuel there. Was good to see Bex, as she was back for the weekend from Regents. We ordered and all had a good chat about things past present and … future while the male waiter flirted with Eddy. As per usual I ended up eating more than my fair share of everyone’s desert. Decided to go back to Rache’s for a last sleep over (having spent a good few nights there already throughout the summer). Drove Eddy home 1st, then went to Emma’s to get her overnight stuff … the car horn came in useful here. Rach and me had a good talk about bacteria going to Heaven.
Watched some planet earth while we got ready for bed. Its funny how, because me, Emma and Rach have spent so much time having sleepovers, we all now have a ‘side of the bed’ at Rache’s in her huge bed. We listened to Michael Buble and planned a 40’s party at mine for Christmas and had a really good chat about anything and everything for the last time for a while until the early hours.
Woke up at 9am by Rach saying … what’s Emma doing on the floor …? Apparently I had jumped out of bed in the middle of the night, tried to get Emma and Rach up thinking something was after us, lay down on the floor and couldn’t work out how to get back in my sleeping bag … so put on Raches dressing gown and emptied her pockets of Tea cake wrappers all over her room in my sleep … I do worry sometimes. Anyway, made breakfast, dropped Rach and Emma off at church as they were doing a drama for Lexi, went home to pick up mum and Vicky and went to church for the last time before uni. Was good to see everyone, then went to meet everyone at Elim as we had planned to go into town to Apherohead for a hot chocolate. Saw Emma’s mum on the way and had a chat about Emma’s room … at some point Jon, Emma, Bex and Rach lost me in WHSmiths when I got distracted and sat on the floor for 15mins reading ‘climb’. Had a shop around and did the usual ‘trying expensive clothes on in Bay’ then wondered home. Went past church on the way back where Dad, Peter (the minister) Amy, Kathryn, Mike and Andy were chopping down trees. . . me and Dad will have fun chopping logs in days to come =]

Monday, 15 September 2008

D of E reunion, Starbucks, last few times at youth, ‘film night’, and decorating =]

Tuesday night we all met at Alcamy to hand in our D of E books and go for a meal out to celebrate. We had originally planned on going to Fuegoes but me, Rach and Eddy could get 25% discount at Nandoes, (plus ... its Nandoes) so we ended up there instead. Me, Rach, Eddy, Gary and Josh went in the car and mike on his bike. Took us a long time to order as I had to be talked out of having a whole chicken. We all had a good laugh about D of E and ma Rach and Josh talked about the scientific side of life while others messed with my camera. Debated going to the cinema after, then headed home.
As many of us are all going off to uni soon, the last few nights at Elim have been very special. Although I only started going in the last 2 years, the mad Tuesday and Friday nights of odd films, odder challenges involving malt loaf, eggs, cold spaghetti and wool and glue, great live worship, sports and hanging out have been great. Emma, Claire and Rach came round to mine on sat and we put a film on for 10mins before getting board, trying to do an old 70’s retro exercise tape then going on the phone and webcam to Bex in Regents. Spent a good few hours talking and seeing her new friends.
The last week has been mostly composed of me, Emma and sometimes Jon and Rach decorating Emma’s room. Talk about being spontaneous! Bought paint from homebase after spending half a day de-junking Emma’s room and saying ‘aaah! Remember this!!!’. I and Rach went to the tip to chuck stuff and recycle the paper. Drove into town to dump old clothes at the charity shop and to get masking tape before realising I hadn't put my parking ticket in the window, but in my purse. Ran back to the car park only to find this waiting...


The 1st thing I did was get my camera out, then went to flutter my eyelashes at the traffic warden and beg for forgiveness as I had bought my ticket.ive written off about it and all should be fine ... I hope. I also ended up in Emma’s loft looking for sheets and trying not to step through the ceiling at one point. We had some tea at some point.
Went to Rachel’s for a late breakfast the next morning and we went shopping for uni stuff, it was a long day. Me and Emma went to raches that night after house group and stayed over before going for an early painting start at Emma’s in the morning. Also had fun making scrambled egg and jacked potatoes for lunch. Decorating still unfinished, but were getting there. =]

see http://picasaweb.google.com/Emmmmmmmmmmmma for many pics comming soon =]

Monday, 1 September 2008

Things that happen when you go to the gym =]

Spent the last few days with my friends and earning money. Friday was a free day so I met Emma and Rachel in town at 11:00, after looking for an outfit for Emma, going the CBS, me shopping in Primark, going for lunch, Rach buying me some hair clips and just ‘chillin’, we realised we were meant to be going to the gym ... and it had taken us three hours to get there so far! Got to the gym and did half a work out before we all got ‘chatted up’ by some sick 30 year old man. Apparently he had been watching me and Rach doing sit-ups ... Emma was rather annoyed with the situation. Wondered back into town and planned a few things for weeks to come. Emma went her way and me and Rach walked home and had a really good chat about life etc.
Went to Bex’s that night for a ‘girls night in’ with Bex, Claire, Rachel and Emma, as it was the last time we would see Bex before she goes to Regents. Spent a few hours exploring their new extension, messing around taking pics on Bex’s webcam on her laptop ... much to Rachel’s surprised when I jumped on her on Bex’s bed to get in the pic! Claire came ... with Chinese. Heated up pizza too and had a feast of junk. Jon and Adam arrived later. Dropped Rach off and we listened to the CD we borrowed off James on the way... good tunes.
Meeting Rach and Emma for a session at the gym tomorrow, and I think a coffee (hot chocolate) afternoon and a lunch out will be arranged ... and a night out too!