Your Birthdate: April 5

You have many talents, and you are great at sharing those talents with others. Most people would be jealous of your clever intellect, but you're just too likeable to elicit jealousy. Progressive and original, you're usually thinking up cutting edge ideas. Quick witted and fast thinking, you have difficulty finding new challenges. Your strength: Your superhuman brainpower Your weakness: Your susceptibility to boredom Your power color: Tangerine

I must say that I think they are spot on wehen they say that I have superhuman brain power! Modest hey! Hehe.

Last few days

Its nearly time for the Easter holidays, and as such we have had the usual mad rush to hand things in followed by a calm period. I've been pretty organised this time round. I think I am learning to do work before the last minute. This is good as lots of pieces are due in on the same day!

For our Organisational Behaviour Coursework, we had to analyse the group behaviour within our degree course and the level of conformity that has occurred. It was a little silly but quite interesting. We came to the conclusion that for an IMML:

1. It is ok to arrive late in a lecture as long as one is accompanied by others.
2. Once in a lecture it is the norm to sit in the same place every week. Not to close to the front, and as near to sides of the rows as possible which helps ensure a quick exit.
3. That our course is full of people who go out drinking lots and talk about their drunken adventures the next day- well that's a surprise, nothing like your average student then!
4. That thanks to the Spanish and French contingents of our course, friends are met with la bise (air kiss) rather than a handshake!
5. That there are differences between the different language groups on our course. The students studying German tend to be more punctual, whilst those doing Spanish are more relaxed about time. Again it fits the stereotypes of the country.
6. There are different types of group within our course, the course group, the language groups, informal groups of friends, and formal coursework groups set by the lecturer. Within each group there is a different level of conformity
7. There is a certain amount of rivalry between IMML's and BBA's which makes IMML's arrive on time to shared lectures in order to keep the impression that our group is superior to theirs. ( We do both a language AND management. They only do management!)
8. And then we had some criticisms of Asch and Tajfel's social identity theories. But I won't go into who they are or what their theories are as I don't think that you would be interested.

I had a Spanish presentation on: ¿Hasta que punto es verdad que la integracion europea ha proporcionado el marco fundamental para la elaboracion de la politica economica espanola desde la muerte de Franco?
This translates as: To what point is it true that integration into europe has proved to be the fundamental point for themaking of Spanishh economic policy after Franco's death? I'm sure you will agree that it is a thrilling topic to have a presentation on, so I will not bore you with any more details!!!!

Today I had a lovely picnic party with my housemates at lunch in pitstop (a sandwich place on campus). We had sandwiches, and I bought some party rings and bakewell tarts for pudding. Ummm party rings are nice. I don't find nearly enough occasions to eat them! Its ok though, because I still have a packet as they were on buy one get one free in the SU shop. It was fun and we chatted and ate nice food, and yeah simple but effective. I know that possibly it is a bit early to celebrate bday, but everyone is busy tonight and they are all rushing off home tomorrow, so it was the last chance for us all to gather in the same place!

RSPCA was my next stop of the day, I bought Millie a new collar on mum's request.It is one that should stop her pulling on the lead. We shall see if miracles occur! Hehe. I was also asked to buy a bubble machine that makes meat flavoured bubbles for dogs to jump and catch. Aparently it provides them with hours of fun. I am yet to be convinced, but it sounds like a cool dog toy. Never mind a dog toy in fact, I want one with nice sweety flavours!

Thats all folks! See you over easter hopefully.

The last post was in fact written today, but it doesn't seem to want to tell you this. I can't find the place where I change the date!

Filling time

Hello all you wonderful bloggers out there who still bother to read my blog! I am going to try and remember interesting things that have happened in the past few weeks since my last blog. I have to warn you in advance that most of these will be related to trampolining or gymnastics in some way as work is generally boring!

Looking way back into the past, there was the very exciting event that is the Bath trampolining competition. It was great fun because so many of my friends went. The comp was really well organized and run thanks to Lady Emily! She is THE most organized person you will ever come across, and is also chair of the trampoline club. They should have told me that you had to be organized before making me chair gymnastics! But anyway, the competition went very well and I came 3rd in my category, won a team silver and came 2nd in the syncro event. Sop a pretty good medal haul I think! All I was missing was a gold, but never mind! That will come one day... I am far too demanding aren't I!
Anyway, moving on we come to the Gymnastics BUSA competition. It was held in Lilleshall National Sports Centre, near Telford, in a purpose built gym (*drool*). Why don't we have one of them? The university has spent millions on a brand new sports centre, and didn't include a gymnastics centre. Grrrrrrr! But anyway, it was great fun, we watched the amazing grade 1 competitiors and then it was our go! We competed on vault and floor, and came 11th overall as a team. (out of 18 teams). After the competition I played in all the pits and all the trampolines, it was great!
Trampolining BUSAS were the following day, I was driven there by Jenny on the Saturday evening. We sang throughout the 3 hour drive to various tracks, including songs by alanis morisette, alisha's attic, robbie williams and others. By the time we arrived in Lancaster, it was 11 pm and we were both ready for bed! Sunday morning, and a hot cross bun later, we drove to the sorts hall where the trampoline competition was being held. Ummm hot cross buns are yummy, especially when they have been toasted and have a bit of margarine melted on them.
But anyway, back to the sports hall, it took us ages to find it, there was a full blown blizzard going on outside, to the point that when we got into the sports hall they announced that we should book somewhere to stay for that evening because they didn't think that people would be able to get home! All the trains were cancelled, and cars couldn't get out of the car park because they had to go up a slope, and it was covered in ice! But anyway, we managed to get home fine in the end as the snow slowed down. I did my 2 routines right at the start of the day, I screwed them up a bit, but never mind, I came 17th overall in the end, which I am pleased with because I was not last! Anyway, that was last weekend.

Monday I can't remember much from other than the usual ridiculous number of lectures. Tuesday I had a group meeting all day, ohh the fun life of a student! Wednesday was similar during the day and then I when out in the evening, and got a little drunk. Ooops. My grammar class at 9.15 the next morning was fun! The day was then spent in another group meeting. Friday, guess what, I had another group meeting! Can you see a pattern emerging here?! And then I went shopping in town, and bought lots of pretty clothes, yey! A pair of trousers and 2 t-shirts. On Saturday I went to Bristol with Claire in the morning and bought more clothes! A really really nice jumper and some walking shoes, because my mum kept telling me to buy some!
That brings us to today, I had yet another group meeting, ohh the fun of I all. In case you are wondering they are for the various pieces of coursework due in at the moment in the form of essays or presentations. Yeah I know, my life is thrilling is it not!

My favourite places

1. My home in London- my family live there need I say more?
2. My home in Bath- this is where I spend most of my time with lots of my friends. Yey!
3. The stv (sports training village)- it has lots of trampolines in it! They are fun to jump on and do somersaults and baranis on! The stv also has a really big cool swimming pool, which is 50 m long!
4. The inside of my mind- its a great place for a one to one chat with myself!
5. Camber sands with Millie- its lovely to see her run around on the sand and try to dig it up to find shells.
6. Box hill- a great place for walks
7. The Lycee- a place full of fond happy memories
8. South Kensington- contains a good selection of museums and the nicest creperie imaginable. Yumm
9. Vietnam- its kind of cheating to include a whole country, but it was so lovely and the people were so nice and I had such a wonderful time that I think it deserves to be on this list.
10. Lots of other lovely places deserve to be mentioned but they will have to be left for another day.