Wear Sunscreen

Might sound a bit weird but I listen to this one song literally every day, it called the sunscreen song and its by baz luhrman who also directed Moulin rouge which is definitely without a doubt my favourite film of all time! If anyone fancies whisking me off my feet one day id love to see the Moulin rouge in Paris and go for tea down the chanselise, my birthday is coming up too… handy ;)

Anyway the sunscreen song is like a famous speech/song he does and I like it because its filled with fabulous advice and stuff and really makes you think and I reckon if I could live my life like that I would be happy every second forever. Its like a 7 minute song and I know it word for word so maybe its about time I found a new song but I just love it so much!

My personal favourites:

1)      Be nice to your siblings, they’re the best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

2)      Be kind to your knees… you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

So true... it will change your life.

I’ve been thinking a lot about general life and happiness recently coz I finished uni a few months ago and don’t go back til October, so that’s a long time to do nothing for! Gives you a lot of thinking time which can be nice and generally im not a very emotional thinking type person and im just happy all the time but makes you wonder what you’re doing with your life.

On the whole I’m a ‘cup’s nearly full’ person rather than a ‘cup’s a bit empty’ person, don’t see where worrying gets you but maybe that’s coz im lucky and don’t really have any major worries? I hate being around depressing moaning complaining people which is why I try and be happy happy, this becomes much more difficult around that time of month so best to avoid me tbh… ask max and he will tell you about the time not so long ago he was winding me up walking through town and I took a swing at him lol, missed dammit, the big girl was horrified all the same. Pretty much the only thing that really stresses me is results day, maybe if I stressed more about exams I would worry less about the results?? it’s a vicious circle of sadness so im not going to be doing that lol.

As a girl, I think too much about looks and guys and things (standard), wish I was skinnier, wish my boobs were perkier, wish I didn’t have sausage fingers blah blah blah but the other day Stacey said possibly the nicest thing I have ever heard,

‘Its your imperfections that make you perfect’

Which is a lovely way to think about things, rather than when I posed the question to Jamie lee and his words of wisdom were,

‘men age gracefully, women sag… gravity owns them’

my friend jess in our kitchen/lounge/communal
area, we ran out of bowls

And over the past year I had to make loads of random choices without really thinking and everything has changed completely but its alright coz I like the drama, anyway after I’ve moved up to headingley next week I hope I will settle more, im so excited to have a couch and a double bed! Living in halls is fun, so many parties and new people and vodka and no responsibilities but defo had enough of it now and want to live in a proper house so people will come visit… my mum ran away from my flat in fear and my dad is yet to come see where I live because ‘halls don’t count’.

Im missing all the poker boys too, they are balling all over vegas and all my uni friends have gone home for summer so its just me and Stacey for a while but we have fun so its ok :) I still hope they hurry home soon though, mainly because I’m jealous they are having fun without me but also coz I miss Sunday dinner and watching many hours of Disney with davey nic and many episodes of whatever shit series robs on at the moment and makes me watch.



dave's packing for 2 months holiday :/



Im going back to preston for fathers day this week so that should be nice to see my pretty papa and everyone, always miss my sibs when im in leeds and going to meet my mum for lunch one day. Also may has just got back from vegas so I haven’t seen her in a while and im sure there will be lots of juicy stories to hear so hopefully the long late night Sunday train journey will be worth it.

Pops

Til next time,

Selina x

Sciencedam

At Leeds every course has a society, I’m not sure what they are for coz ours doesn’t do much but anyway it’s called fobsoc (faculty of biological sciences society). I like to think I’m not a nerd but fobsoc is definitely a nerdy society to be in. However, in February they organised a trip to Amsterdam so I snap thought omg yeh this will be so cool maybe fobsoc aren’t so bad! …then they called it sciencedam :/

We only went for a couple of days and it was very dramatic but I enjoyed it a lot so thought I should dedicate a blog to it :) plus Helen felt left out…

For some reason the theme for the journey there was prehistoric so me, Hannah, Helen and Sarah dressed up as cave girls as I am a big fan of fancy dress ha and I tend to get really into it! But then we got to uni trekking through town looking like idiots and turned out everyone else wasn’t so up for it as we were… sigh, oh well id started drinking by this point so didn’t really bother me!

So the coach was really late and we got on the wrong one then when we found the right one it drove off in the wrong direction so we were quite behind schedule, and a bit drunk. We only set off from leeds at like 10pm or something so we were driving all night down to dover (why we didn’t either fly or go from hull I will never know.) We ended up getting to dover at like 4.30am, turned out the ferry was at 4.15 sighhhh so we sat on this sweaty coach all tired and hungover til the next one at 6.30 and everyone was shattered so we all piled on and collapsed everywhere and coz there was like 100 of us plus regular people, all the couches and stuff were taken so I had to sit in this tiny space amongst lots of real people judging me for looking like a drunk, skanky cavegirl. None of us were feeling great anyway from the drinking and not sleeping but this was the most choppiest ferry you could imagine, so so windy literally couldn’t stand up! But I didn’t really think anything of it all I thought was ‘I just want to not be in public or travelling and get to sciencedam’. Then about 40 mins into the 90 min journey Helen poked me and then pointed to the little virtual journey screen and the mini boat was turning around back to dover! The captain guy came on the speaker and said ‘due to a fault with the ferry and adverse weather conditions we are turning back to dover, even though we were already half frikin way there, sorry im such an ass, sit tight’ so there was a big uproar and everyone got extra mad then 10 mins later when we were nearly back, Hannah, who was curled up asleep on the floor bless her, woke up and looked outside and said ‘ohh I can see the port, its calais! Were finally there!’ no babe… we’re back at dover. To which she replied ‘*$£*&%^$”*^**£$!”^%&* fucking ***”$%!”^&*£**$”’. Ah but we can look back and laugh.

helen, sarah, me and hannah in this steakhouse restaurant

In the end we went back, got the next one at half 7, having been awake for like 25 hours now and eventually got to Calais, drove up to dam but by the time we got to where we were staying it was like 5pm so just went straight up to our room to get ready to go out like true lads. After much moaning off Hannah and Helen about being tired we decided to spend the night sat in a café doing things you do in Amsterdam and had a very hilarious night and I collected lots of mementos for my forever box J

None of us had been to Amsterdam before so we had loads of stuff planned, van gogh museum, red light district, Boddingtons factory, anne frank museum, buy some clogs, get some hookers etc etc (kidding about that last one) but we only got up dead late so we just went to the sex museum right in the city centre which was abso incred! Definitely recommend it.



i think this sink was meant to be
a vajayjay



At night we got tickets for this ultimate bar crawl thing which was pretty good coz like everyone from our group went and it was just basically a massive pub crawl round Amsterdam and they give you a free drink in each. We scammed our way into free vip t-shirts so we got whatever we wanted and these guys came round every 2 seconds with big bottles of spirits for communal drinking. Few missing scenes there so I’ll move on.

penis bowl

It’s crazy how many bikes there are there, literally EVERYONE rides bikes, hardly any cars and as it turned out, bikes are really hard to avoid when you’ve had a few tee many martoonies/much more space cake than the guy recommended. So be warned.

We did lots of other nice things too, went to hardrock café for tea which I had never been to before but its awesome, such good nachos! Which reminds me of when we went to hooters in Nottingham for tea one time. That place is epic, its packed full of guys and football screens and we got nachos there too (tough competition) and serves all American things and the hot waitresses all mince around in tiny shorts and crop tops, very amusing. But yeh we saw lots of general Amsterdam sites, wandered down the red light district, did some shopping, bought some winkie pasta, had a nice time.

Thankfully the journey back was much more tolerable and we stopped at a chocolate factory in Belgium which made me happy J.

I like Amsterdam coz its really pretty and quaint, maybe not so much at night when theres lots of drunk stoners around but on the whole its lovely. All cobbley with a beautiful canal running through and loads of bridges and little cute shops. I would definitely like to go back… right after vegas that is… and maybe after Thailand too… oo and new York…

Growing up.. not height wise unfortunately :(

I think I had possibly the best childhood anyone could ever have!

Coz I’m from a big family it was never boring and the house was never empty, I couldn’t imagine being an only child it must be so dull! I was quite lucky coz we got pretty much everything we could want and we lived in a tiny village called Bretherton which was lovely and adorable and a really nice place to grow up. Also it was good coz it was so small everyone knew eachother, Austin regularly escaped naked through the cat flap and he was always returned safe and sound… some things never change though, he was busted drunkenly mooning cars outside our house at 4am not so long ago.

Right by our house there was a big set of woods which were lovely (in the day) and filled with flowers and rabbits and sunshine and rainbows and unicorns and right in the depths theres this massive old manor house that semi burnt down like 100 years ago and it has these giant grounds, mama used to take us in spring to steal the daffodils and for picnics and stuff, was nice :). At night though it was really creepy and oll was walking through there alone for some reason and he said he swore he heard cows screaming… it’s debatable how reliable this information is though due to how stoned he was! But I like to think it’s true.

if you go down to the woods today de de de de deee de dee

yay for ben

Mum had the huge task of entertaining 5 kids every day which must have been quite intense lol but she did a good job. When we were little she used to take us loads of nice places and looked after us all day every day, she dedicated her whole life to us and she really is such a good mum and only ever wanted the best for us and I’m really grateful for everything :) I have so many happy memories with mama, one of my favourite times was when she used to make koeksisters for us. She grew up in Zambia in south Africa and its something they have there. Takes like 2 days to make them and there must be a 1000 calories in one but I don’t care they are possibly the most delicious sugary goodness treats in the world. Recently she took me and may on a girly trip to London which was such a good trip! May was at DTD in Nottingham working the APAT where Mr Ben Rhys Young won the first of his 2 apat champion titles so we stopped by there to pick her up and drove to London afterwards but it was like 3am and we ended up getting lost and driving round central London aimlessly for hours with the most annoying sat nav with English Tim constantly telling us to ‘make a U turn where possible’. Oh well made up for it coz we had the best lunch ever in harrods at a seafood place and I forget why but they gave us vip access in palm beach where there was a big poker tournament on so that was a cool place to stop in for a drink. An all round good trip :).





Also I was lucky growing up coz we used to go away quite a lot which is my favourite thing to do ever :D My grandma Brenda has something ridiculous like 20 grandkids and she made it her mission to teach all of them to ski so we did lots of lessons at Rossendale and when I was about 14 we went to Kitzbuhl in Austria. This was a highly eventful trip. I’m not absolutely retarded when it comes to skiing but im not guna lie, im not great… so when we were there we got put in ski school which I liked but me and my cousin alice got put with a bunch of kids. So one day our instructor Roland (a very sweet german guy) accidentally took us on the wrong run, we sat in the ski lift for agesss til we were in the clouds and got out on this terrifying black run with a drop that was literally as close to vertical as you can get. Me and alice weren’t having any of this but coz the kids in our group were so little they were fearless and just threw themselves off this cliff and went firing off in all directions at 200mph. Roland started to cry coz he knew he was getting fired and was soon to have to death of 10 5yr olds on his conscience. So he skied off to try round them up while me and alice sat on our bums and tried to edge our way down. As it started to get dark and we were still in the clouds it became apparent we weren’t guna make it any time soon but by this time we found roland and the kids again and a snow plow thing had come to pick them up. There was room for everyone except me :( so these 4 instructors tried making me ski it and I tried dead hard but every 2 seconds I almost broke a limb (even one of the pros was struggling so I didn’t feel like such an idiot then lol) but it was like pitch black now so one of the instructors just pointed to me and pointed to his back… I was like ‘eh! No chance!’ then they all got mad and started frantically pointing at this guys back so I was like sigh, took my skis off and climbed aboard. Was a nice ride actually, saw all the sights with none of the work lol, plus this was in my 'puppy fat' days so cant have been the lightest person! I had one guy carrying me, one skiing behind holding my skis, and one on either side protecting me ha. Fairly embarrassing gliding past the bar but at least it’s something to tell your kids/blog readers. That holiday was the first time max got drunk, was new years eve and he had almost 3 beers and was slizard! I had a pic of his first ever hangover (awwww) but cant find it so this is one of pre hangover.

far too young to be drinking! looks about 5! shocking.

sneaky pic i took of a guy on the beach coz it was hilare!

Over the years iv had some really good trips, went to spain a couple of times (once just went for lunch lol), barcelona is beautiful! Had a nice time in paris, spend xmas last year in gran canaria and been to Africa a couple of times which was amazing! Also had some really fun times in cornwall with my girlfriends just going camping and stuff, bumming it cheap can be so much fun sometimes :). But my favourite by far is a little village in Portugal in the Algarve called carvoeiro, we have gone there a few times a year since I was born so its like home from home and I absolutely love it! Its changed a lot over the years but the beaches are gorgeous as ever, lovely restaurants, its home to my most favourite hotel ‘tivoli almansor’, its just beautiful and I want everyone in the world to experience it so we are having a big trip there in august which will be lots of fun, more the merrier so if anyone would like to come let me know!

Anyway Africa, I was a bit sceptical at first coz we were going to the gambia which a tiny country in west Africa and its proper third world so I was like blehh. But I absolutely take it back, its such a different way of living but I love it, everyone looks out for eachother even if you don’t know them, they are like family and they all rub suncream on eachother before themselves and share all their meals and stuff like that, its so sweet. We were staying in a pretty hotel and I remember doing a bit of sunbathing by the pool and I opened my eyes and there were some eagles circling above me waiting for me to die so they could swoop in, basts. Well jokes on them, I got a tan and they had to move on to a very old lady that seemed more promising.

i LOVE this pic of austin with spider llamin and jack coz i dont think he could look any more white! ha



this was at the 'sacrifice pit' where we found some crocodiles, they seemed friendly enough...



Right outside the hotel there was a beautiful long sandy beach with a juice bar (I DO NOT recommend the baobab) and we befriended some people that owned it who became like our tour guides called llamin, jack (karamba) and spider. Its funny coz every first born male is called llamin and all the first born females are called Fatima so gets pretty confusing… this was crazy, one day we found 3 brothers and made them take us on a canoe ride through this swamp thing, anyway oldest was called llamin obvs but then the 2 other brothers were called steve or something, both of them! They said the first got called steve and it seemed to work pretty well so their mum and dad called the next one steve too! Africa is weird. So yeh when we went it was over xmas and the tradition there is in each village one guy dresses up like a devil and everyone chases them bashing sticks and pans and things, its mad! On xmas day like 10 of us sat and drank in this bar for hours, round after round and we came to pay the bill at the end and it was like 500 dalasi which is about 11 quid, not too shabby! We bought loads of toys and sweets and stuff and gave them to all the little kids which was very soul warming but max had one of them liquorice wheels and this scrawny little girl, only about 5 came up to him for some and he peeled off like about 2 inches for her and scoffed the rest down for himself! Tight little scrawb, but he got lots of abuse off us for it.

circumcision tree

On another day our guide guys took us into the jungle and all these wild monkeys turned up and we gave them some biscuits etc and they stole olls wallet from his pocket which he had to bribe to get back lol and there were these ant hills the size of a couch which we made max climb on and I bashed it try get the ants to come out har har har. Anyway we came to this ‘circumcision tree’ where it’s a tradition for all boys to come to become men, basically when they are like 12/13 they circumcise them in this tree and then they have to spent 3 nights in the jungle on their own fending for themselves and you come out a man on the other side… personally I think they should bring this tradition to England, damn lazy English boys just drifting their way into manhood. We came out the jungle on the other side, miles from any civilisation in 3^rd world africa and there was this amazing long white beach with a juice bar right at the end and there was a guy sat all alone wearing a preston north end shirt! I was like :o obviously a man with taste ;)

One night we decided it would be fun to go to Sana Gambia which is the ‘big’ city for a bit of a party but it was very traumatic. There was a few of us and we were going with llamin jack and spider and some of their friends, they were nice guys but we didn’t know them very well so you can never be 100% sure what people are like. We were driving and it happened that there wasn’t room in one of the cars for me and may so they boys got in one and us girls sat in another smushed between 2 giant African guys we didn’t know, safe to say we were fairly scared anyway. Then it was like a 30 min drive there and just as we got to this long, long, dark, empty road with trees either side and not a soul in sight the car breaks down :/ may was squeezing my hand really hard and I just looked at her and said ‘this is like the beginning of every horror movie iv ever seen’…tbh I thought we were gonners but it all worked out fine in the end and we had a really fun night!

Anyway that’s gambia, last year we went to Tunisia which was also really really good but a bit too touristy for my liking. Still we did some amazing stuff, my favourite was when we rode some camels into the sunset through the sahara and we went to the big arena where they filmed gladiator and went to this place where people live in caves and got a crystal from the bottom of the deepest salt lake in Africa. Good times.

So yeh basically I think iv been lucky in life so far, im a happy bean and growing up constantly surrounded by people has made me want to have a big family one day… don’t fancy doing all that birthing though, even though dave always tells me I have hips that could birth many men :( Who knows.



In the Beginning...

Hello my name is Selina, my favourite movie is Moulin rouge, my favourite song is baz luhrman’s sunscreen song and I like sunsets, nice wine and long walks on the beach…

Ha im kidding, so cheesy (wasn’t joking about Moulin Rouge though, that films incred.)

Bit of background: I am currently 19 and I’m very much dreading turning 20 in September :( Could give you the jist of who I am by listing what I put on my cv but a large proportion of that is lies so I won’t bother (eg that I speak Japanese.. lol). I like to travel a lot though so I’m not too bad on languages, next place top on my list to go is Las Vegas woop! Just got to wait til I turn 21 booo. Not so much now but I used to play lots of music, saxophone, piano, clarinet, bit of drums and so on which I miss a bit nowadays :( I’m quite revolved around academics coz I’m not very talented in the creativity department or generally any other department lol but I like it so it makes me happy and makes me feel like I have something to work towards I guess… not to brag but I was a member of the national association for gifted and talented youth once upon a time :P but when I was filling out the form I spelt my name wrong, it confused me! I was never very welcome in that group lol…

Technically the only place I would call home is where I grew up in a tiny village called Bretherton in Preston. Im from a big family (one of 5 siblings) and growing up, there was always all of us, plus my mum and dad, plus my sisters boyfriend, plus various other friends etc that were at our house 24/7 so we had a beautiful big farmhouse which I lived in for 18 years and I miss it every day. In 2007 ish my mum and dad split up and since then my middle brother Austin moved out and my big sister Maylis moved in with her boyfriend of the time so me and my 2 other brothers max and oliver have moved a couple of times with my wonderful papa and our dog ‘pog’ and currently live in Much Hoole which is nice enough. I suppose home is where your family is and I love coming back but I spend most of my time in leeds where I go to uni, which is also pretty fabulous!

I always said blogs were just a bit of an attention seeking thing for fairly self involved people but I take it back, iv read a few peoples and I think it’s a really good way to get stuff down and I don’t really care if anyone reads mine its just so I can keep a track of everything and look back on it and smile :) Then again if people do read it then yay I hope you enjoy it!



me and pie.. im guessing at xmas



So yeah I like to think I’m a very positive person and I love a lot of things and people but out of everything in the world I love nothing more than my family. My dad, Simon who we call pie is the most wonderful amazing person I know, he has never let me down, he’s like my best friend, he would give up everything for any of us and dedicates his life to his kids and giving us the best life possible and I can’t imagine what I would do or where I would be without him, I love him very, very much.

me dad and max a long long time ago

me and sprinkles on new years eve

I have 3 brothers, all of which I am very close to. My oldest Oliver is a fun loving, free wheeling love dove and looks out for me when I need him without question. Austin (sprinkles for some reason) is like nobody else I have ever known, he makes me laugh a lot and never has a bad word to say about anyone and I hope he is very, very happy in life because he deserves it. Me and my little brother max were inseparable growing up, I cant explain how much he amuses me! It’s crazy how similar we are and he is one of the very few people that truly understands me. When we were little we would fall out every single day… if I had a quid for every time iv said ‘right that’s it I am never ever talking to you ever again!’… but that’s inevitable given how much time we spent together and how bossy and stubborn I was, (WAS). My favourite game was a little gem I made up called queens and servants coz he was always the servant obviously…

Max: whens it my turn to be the queen

Me: don’t be silly max you don’t want to be a queen, queens are girls!

Max: ohhhh yeh, duh! Would you like ice in your juice?

Sneaky me ;)



original





creepy



To many people I am known as ‘mini may’ and everyone who calls me that knows how much I hate it! Not because I don’t want to be like may, just because we are actually not very alike and it would be nice to be my own person! Tbf if I was actually a mini may, it wouldn’t be so bad, shes an alright kid :P Me and maylis are very close and get on like peas in a pod, especially in recent years. My mum was a really good mum when we were growing up, we had such a good childhood but I don’t see her very much since she left us and moved to Scotland. So since then may has been like a mum especially while me and max were still little and now she’s like a best friend to me. There is very little I don’t tell her, coz as much as I deny it we are really similar and she gets me. I’m lucky to have may coz we like all the same things, think all the same things, have a lot of mutual friends and like to do the all the same things so I could spend all the time in the world with her, it makes me sad I don’t get to see her very much now I live in leeds though. But I really hope everything works out good for her coz she works really hard and deserves it very much. I am proud to be her sister.

All my siblings mean a lot to me and I wont hear a bad word about them so back off!

I joke I joke, I’m not a very angry person… although thinking about it I did get in a fight once on new years eve in a night club in Portugal (won ofc) but generally if people don’t steal my melon or question my science I’m happy :D

However nerdy it is, science is my thing and it’s the only thing I’m good at. I study biomedical sciences at leeds uni but I wish I had had the faith in myself to apply for medicine coz I probably could have got in in the end, oh well that’s the next course on my list coz I intend to be a cosmetic surgeon when I’m through with the many, many more years ‘studying’ I have ahead. Not that I’m complaining, I frikin love being a student! Moving to leeds was possibly the best decision of my life, I’ve met so many beautiful people and it has everything I could want, I think I am definitely a city girl :)

Also leeds has fuelled my love for poker coz I hang round with a lot of players here, not that I’m particularly good but I really, really enjoy playing. Ideally I would play a lot more but its hard dedicating and putting the hours in coz my course is quite demanding. I think if you want to do something you have to put 100% in, there’s no point putting 50% effort into one thing and 50% in another so I’ve been focussing on uni but being a dossy student, iv finished now until october so I’m going to make a massive effort to improve my game, but it’s easy putting the time in when it’s something you enjoy so I’m happy :) I’m lucky coz a lot of people have offered to help me which is nice and I’m really grateful for it, damn them all being in vegas for 2 months though! When they get back im straight on it lol. Recently my friend james has been helping me out a bit, we haven’t done so much yet but he’s a really good player and I’ve learnt a lot already! Also I would like to play live more, especially as I live next door to alea casino so if anyone wants to come let me know!

To quote Jonathan Salfi, ‘you need to understand the winning formula, then it’s about printing money as quick as you can until a very slow and painful death from variance constantly f***ing with your head’… hmm wise, wise words.

I would like to say I’ve tried really hard at uni this year but it’s hard to be motivated when you know it doesn’t count and you only need 40% to pass. Even so, i’ve found it really hard and I have tried and put a lot of work in so I’m pretty sure iv passed fingers crossed… everything except pharmacology, I hate pharmacology so much and it’s so hard! If you would like an idea of what its like, this is a list of some of the drugs we had to learn, just as a bit of background knowledge! http://www.facebook.com/note.php?created&&note_id=10150272440748455. We get results on July 1^st so if I haven’t passed nobody is allowed to judge me and be mean coz it was so so hard and I promise I tried really hard for that. Sorry in advance dad.

too much of these shenanigans

I’m considering trying this new technique: the other week I had a lab exam and somehow got scammed into going out the night before. I was only going to go for one drink for toms bday coz they all went for tea at bar and grill but I turned up and there was 2 extremely strong cocktails waiting for me, sigh, and then a woman appeared behind me with a tray of black sambuca shots, sigh again, and when I declined she got angry and said ‘everyone must have one. Birthday tradition.’ So turned up very hungover the next day and accidentally fell asleep mid way through oops, which was very embarrassing but somehow came out of it with 95%! Coincidence? I think not.

Maybe the only bad thing that came from moving here is that before I came I had a fairly long term boyfriend, matt. He was a good boyfriend and we were together about 2 years but when I moved away I don’t think he liked it and he got clingy and jealous and I couldn’t be doing with it but it’s a shame coz I would have liked to stay friends with him. This was in September ish last year and it made me really appreciate being single and free and put me off relationships for a while, the way I see it I’ve got my whole life to be married etc, might as well appreciate being young while I can!

Plus I think I’ve got a bit fatter recently which doesn’t exactly make you want to get in the game but I’m going on a funfilled holiday in Portugal in august so I’m going to be healthy and go to the gym lots and get sexxyyyyyy ;)





My new years resolution this year was to be more spontaneous which I like to think I have been :) I’ve had a lot of fun so far this year, it’s hard to sum it all up in a blog post so just take my word for it. Spent wayyyy too much money but I think it’s worth it if it makes memories. I went with my course friends hannah and helen to amsterdam in february which was hilarious and i defo want to go back! Over the easter break I went to down to London coz may was playing some poker things so I decided to tag along and we stayed with our old friend gaz in canary wharf. We did so many awesome things, on the first night we went and got a table with a candyfloss flavoured shisha in funky Buddha with all the poker guys which was so cool! We got very very drunk and it was one of the best nights I’ve had. On the next night we went to Mahiki and got this crazy treasure chest boat shot surprise thing which was also very cool, we went to nice restaurants, went ice skating, bowling, saw a scary show, did some London shopping etc etc was an all round amazing trip. A few weeks later we went to alton towers with everyone then had a night out in Nottingham which was dead fun, may wrote a good blog about this if you fancy knowing more… www.maylisboardman.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/hitchhikers-guide-to-the-midlands.





max massively enjoying the monorail 'ride'

Not that we haven’t had some awesome nights in leeds! Generally there are 2 types of night out I go on:

1)      Me and Stacey and Tom go to tesco and buy lots of cheap alcohol and spend a long time choosing what to wear, then about 9pm there’s about 15 of us that gather in our flat and get drunk and play silly games like ring of fire, never have I ever, justin bieber game and so on then we go to whatever night is best that night (ie tues=Faversham, wed=O2). We recently went to a place on park row called bierkeller which is so much fun! It’s like this german beer fest bar where all the waitresses are dressed like milkmaids and everyone stands on the tables and they serve big litre beer tankards and play retro music. Love it! Then it all gets a bit hazy and you go wherever the night takes you.

2)      Meet all the poker guys for tea somewhere (recently jake won a giant scoop and took everyone to gauchos on him which was very lovely of him so thank you very much Mr Cody) that was one of the nicest restaurants I’ve ever been to so that was fun. Then head down to sky lounge for many watermelon martinis or to call lane, Oporto and smokestack are my fave, where there is a high chance of many jagerbombs being drank, so that’s always fun! Then, again, it all gets a bit hazy and you go wherever the night takes you ;)

Hard to say which I like better, both are fun!

In a couple of weeks I am moving to headingley into a beautiful big house with 6 of my best girlfriends: Stacey, Lottie, Kate, Rosie, Jess and Zoe (in no particular order) which I am very excited about! Everyone is invited to our housewarming party in July :D I think living in headingley will be good coz where I am in Clarence dock atm it’s a bit out of the way but headingley is about 95% students and has everything so I’m looking forward to that. However the fact that I am being forced to pay 2 rents meant I had to get a job like a real functioning member of society rather than be a bum studo who gets all their new shoes bought for them by the uk tax payer :( so from 10^th june I start work in a lovely little café called Lento, feel free to stop in for a coffee… unless you’re just coming to laugh, then you’re not welcome. However if you bring me a present I’ll gladly take the mocking.

Generally that’s me in a nutshell. I’ve decided from this moment to take nothing for granted, every day will either be a good day or a great day!

Stand by for future blogs, peace out yo.