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…