London - 21st birthday celebrations!

Hellooo! 
So I am back home from Uni for the Christmas holidays!! I actually came home last Saturday so have almost been home a week now! I can't believe how quickly the first term went, 3rd year is flying by! It's scary but it's also kind of exciting because it means it's getting closer to finishing a pretty big chapter in my life and doing something new! 3rd year is very stressful haha, lots of time has been spent writing essays and reading papers! & even though it's Christmas I still have the small matter of writing my dissertation, which is 10,000 words...and I also need to revise for 2 exams ahh. But I have been enjoying a week off from all that and relaxing and enjoying the run-up to Christmas! :) I got back late last night from London. Me, Mum and Dad spent one night in London as an 21st birthday present (9 days ahh!!) and as it's a special birthday it was rather a night of luxury haha...but it was amazing! We also looked round the shops looking all Christmassy, went up the Shard in the dark and also saw Mamma Mia yesterday (my 4th time seeing it!) & it was amazing as always. I had a great time, I love London, it's such a beautiful city and especially at Christmas! Anyway, here are some pictures I took while we were there: 

We went to John Lewis on Oxford Street and on the roof they had 'Monty's garden' (the little penguin off their christmas advert) and it was so cute! 

Such a good view from John Lewis roof! 

Home for Easter!

Aah I haven't written a blog post in nearly 3 months!! I came home for the Easter holidays (a whole month off wooo) on Saturday and I can safely say that the past few weeks have been soo busy and soo stressful...last week was probably one of the most stressful weeks of my life! My first Semester as a 2nd year wasn't too bad...I didn't have much coursework to complete and I was able to keep relatively on top of everything. This Semester was a whole different story! After exams in January we literally had a couple of days to relax before Semester 2 started. It was only a few weeks before that I suddenly worked out I had no exams and instead ALL my modules were assessed by coursework only, which was exciting because it meant I had no exams (& therefore an even longer summer!) but at the same time it meant that I was going to have a crazy amount of coursework to complete.
As the weeks went by I started to get more coursework set and more deadlines to meet. It wasn't too bad to begin with, but come March everything got a lot more stressful!

On March 10th I went to Amsterdam with the Uni (a compulsory 2nd year field trip). It was really good but I was aware how many deadlines were coming up in the following two weeks and having five days taken out where I couldn't work on any coursework was really annoying! When I got back from Amsterdam I had two weeks left to finish all my coursework due before Easter. It was soo crazy. I had a deadline every single day last week and I'd managed to get only one piece completed before Amsterdam. Last week was so intense and I seemed to literally spend all my time hunched over my laptop working on a different piece of coursework each day. It was so depressing to get one piece completed and then to have to find the motivation to start the next piece. Friday seemed like it would never come! On the Thursday night I was frantically finishing off my Stats coursework (I hate stats) and that was probably when I reached my stress peak haha. ANYWAY Friday did come, and I did manage to get all my coursework submitted...although I am not looking forward to receiving my marks back haha.

On Friday evening a few friends and I went shopping and had a Nando's and it was just so nice to be able to do no work and not feel guilty about it! Don't get me wrong, I enjoy Uni and I really like my course, but the past week has shown me just how hard it can be sometimes. It is stressful and really hard work but hopefully in the end it'll all be worth it! :) So now I am enjoying a couple of days of being really lazy at home, doing no work and making the most of having home cooked meals. It is so nice to be home for a few weeks and be able to have a break from lectures etc. Although I still have a lot of coursework due in after Easter but I'm not thinking about that just yet...

At the end of this week, Mum, Dad and I are having a short break down in Devon which I am really looking forward to. I love Devon and I find it so relaxing to be by the sea. It will be so nice to have a proper break after the past few weeks, before I crack on with lots of work again! I already have a few exciting things planned for in the summer too which I can't wait for :)

Thanks for reading!

London at Christmas

So I am a bit late at uploading this as I went to London nearly 3 weeks ago now! But I still want to upload some photos on here that I took whilst I was there as it was just so pretty:)
I love London and it's kind of become a tradition for me, mum and dad to go every year just before Christmas just to wander around and look in some shops at all the Christmas stuff and the Christmas decorations etc! It gets you in the Christmassy mood!
We only go for the day and there is so much to see that's it's just impossible to fit it all in. Usually we always wait until dark to walk up Oxford Street and look at the lights but this year instead of doing that we went in the daylight, then once it was dark we headed down to Embankment and walked around there instead which was soo amazing because although I've visited that area before I never have in the dark and the London Eye and the Christmas Market and everything else just looked so pretty with all the lights twinkling away! So I was really glad we did that this year (or last year as I should be saying now...) So here are some of the pictures I took, hope you like them! (They've gone in a random order)

Christmas Market!

This picture doesn't show just how pretty London's skyline looked with everything lit up. Loads of little lights and it all reflected on the water! Also I couldn't get the whole view in!!

Covent Garden

Thanks for reading!