A relaxing weekend with a little stress at the end
I should be writing my politics essay right now, but I’m not. My brain feels like mush. Last night I turned in my econ essay a half-hour late, and the essay was good I think, I’m just not sure if I answered the question correctly or at all. I explained the economic model though. And I kept it to the length of my last essay. He said to try to take off a page each time, but that didn’t happen. I also had a whole lot of sources. I filled up the whole works cited page, which I haven’t done since I’ve been here. So it was my last essay for econ and the last piece of work my tutor will have before he writes my report. I am really not looking forward to my reports this term. I don’t think they’re going to be quite as praising as last term. I don’t know what it is about this term, but it’s just been bad.
But before and after that stress, the weekend was quite good. Friday night, Celia, Jennifer, Ula, and I went to Sarah’s for dinner. We talked a lot and then watched Vanity Fair, which none of us had seen and all of us decided we didn’t really like. It was very colorful and pretty, just weren’t satisfied with the story. So everyone left, and Sarah and I cleaned up before going to bed. I slept for about 9 hours, I think, and was not feeling nearly as sick the next morning. My throat wasn’t scratchy anymore, though my nose is still not back to normal. I read most of the day, taking a break for lunch and decided I would stay at Sarah’s Saturday night too. She had a bunch of girls over from church and had another girls’ night where everyone brought old clothes and make-up and stuff they didn’t want and traded. There was stuff left over at the end, so when I came down, Sarah said I should go through it. So I got some new clothes! We all watched American Dreamz, which was pretty funny. Then the next morning, I got up a little earlier and did some finishing up reading for econ. I had tea with Sarah, a South African tea that’s really good, for breakfast and then caught the bus into town to meet Celia for church. I got there early, so Sister asked if I would bring the gifts up. That always makes me nervous. But she kept my stuff in a room that was locked so it wouldn’t get stolen. Then Celia and I stopped by Sainsbury’s before heading back to college.
I ate some lunch and then worked on my essay like crazy. Then Dr. Hadaway had all the G-towners up to the G-town flat for an English breakfast for dinner, complete with sausage, bacon, eggs, grilled tomatoes, a mushroom, onion thing, and hot cross buns. It was very good. I left first, at 11, because I knew I needed to get some sleep so I could get my politics essay done today. I was going to try really hard to do really well on this essay, but now I don’t think it’s going to be great. There just isn’t time unless you work constantly with no breaks, and even then there might be too much. So it’ll be what it is, and I might get a bad report from him too.
Oh and to finish off this entry, yesterday we got an e-mail from Hannah, which was exciting:
Hey girls,
I have some awesome news to really motivate and prepare us for this week and to prove how our hard work and determination can really pay off…
We qualified fastest in rowing on! In a time of 3.29! That was 17 seconds ahead of St. Hughs, who we are chasing on our first day of
bumps racing! It was also only 28 secs slower than the boys! Not too shabby!
So well done to everyone for a really strong performance and lets really go into this week with this in mind, thinking positive and prepared to bump.