 my friends don't care about everything as long as you got a story to bring we'll take you along take you along take you along to some other places we try towards the other horizon maybe to spend a couple hundred tell me so i have been here for about two and a half months and i can thoroughly say that i still have so much more of the city to explore fall foliage and greenery that is available in the city it's just my absolute favorite part i'm i am a lover of grandma nature walks and this city makes it so easy this is some footage from my sunrise hike of arthur c over the weekend i got up really early on sunday morning and just went up the side so this monday i was determined to get some work done i have three consecutive research papers due in three weeks and as of right now i have officially two completed for me i get my best work done if i break up some of my writing so this morning i cleaned up my room so i could focus and i actually got up um this morning at six because i find i do my best work really early in the morning so by nine a.m i was ready for a break so i popped down to the dining hall for some breakfast this past weekend was a holiday in the uk called guy fox night i am not going to try to explain the significance but i will link its history down below so i actually went to a bonfire night down at portobello beach it was a really cool experience and there was basically like a big bonfire every 15 feet and people were like lighting fireworks off at random and it's completely legal to do this here which i thought was really funny and uh super cool and people were just you know almost doing like their own little firework displays and it was the closest that i've ever seen fireworks so i recommend you check this out at night if you are ever in the uk for the rest of the day i basically just wrote my paper and then attended a weight lifting class at the gym which i'm still paying the price for this in a real way i genuinely couldn't lift like a single finger yesterday without making like an exasperated noise i'm going back tomorrow send your thoughts and prayers i don't know if anyone else gets this way but after a super intense workout i'm just like always in the best mood just like dancing and skipping um here i am listening to where i carry you know an excellent an excellent choice so later that night i did some work for my literature class which i'm really loving right now because we're doing plays and it's like just my favorite homework is always just watching plays i don't know why like usually you have to read a play but i was just watch it with the script open and it's just like one of the luxuries of being an english minor and i love it so tuesday started off wonderfully i found a ladybug which is good luck and i popped on my white pants because there was absolutely no chance of rain today and um it didn't rain because that actually sounded like it was going to be ironic but it in fact was not um so yeah um was just good so i had a group meeting on campus today so i walked through the meadows which is just such a treat on a fall day and i had my meeting inside the library bar which is probably one of the coolest study spaces on campus um the inside is just so pretty and they have these like barcodes where you can just like order like a coffee right to the table um and it's just a really cool place after that i would i made my way to my tutorial which is made up about 10 people and it meets every week and it's in the most beautiful building it has this insane view it's honestly one of the highlights of my week that i get to be in this room i i'm i'm really just i always whip out my camera like an idiot before class um but what are you gonna do wait to starbucks because i was just in a really christmasy mood and i had to focus on getting some work done so i got myself a caramel brule latte but they called it like a toffee latte here but it's it's the same thing the sun is now setting at 4 11 which has been very interesting to experience i only went to this little used bookstore that i've been passing quite often called tails and it's right by the meadows and i spent at least a half an hour in there just browsing i was listening to christmas music and just i was just having the nicest time ended up buying this elizabeth strout book called my name is lucy barton it was one of the staff recommendations which i always appreciate those in a bookstore um of that like scale and variety because you can definitely get lost like trying to find a book when it's just like time periods and just like and others who don't know and all that stuff then my mom texted me about kelly clarkson's new christmas album and so i was just jamming out until um i had to go to dinner i was worried if my room looks clean so it's really weird to think about but i am actually going to be heading home for the holidays in like almost like three weeks three and a half weeks which just like goes to show you how fast this experience goes um i think a lot of american students like they only do this for like one semester that's really just like sort of the common thing and you know i was like kind of nervous about going forward the whole entire year it was like one of those things like i wasn't nervous about until like i got here and then i was like oh was that was that the best decision i i don't know but like now that i'm actually like nearing the end of my semester like i'm feeling so good about this decision like i feel like there's like so much more for me to do an experience and it should be really exciting to be able to figure that out through the rest of this year i do have to say i am very much looking forward to having like a little bit of a break from like halls just in general um i've actually had like a very decent experience living here like i actually i have little to no complaints besides like just dining hall food like sometimes gets a little a little old but yeah i i definitely miss the perks of like living in an apartment uh but christmas is coming up tomorrow i'm actually doing like a fun christmas thing that i hopefully will get some footage of and um then i had like one sort of like final like trip coming up um before the end of my time here in like the christmas season but yeah i'm so excited oh my god and then i i would have to stay up until like four in the morning but Taylor Swift's new album comes out tonight and then the new 10 minute all too well i am not all too well anyway that's what i'll be doing it for in the morning