Cheeky Update

Bonjour tous!

Well... not much to report on Mons front recently, it's been very plain sailing since going back to uni last week. However, we have had some fantastic weather this last week! My large bedroom window has let soo much sunlight into my room it's been just marvellous. This weekend just gone the weather has been soo nice that Charlotte and I were invited by Emily and her housemates to a lovely Barbecue which we made Potato Salad for. Loads of fun there, particularly for me due to the fact they all speak different languages... Italian, English, French, German, Catalan, Spanish, Arabic and more... it's like our very own L'auberge espagnole.  Lovely day we had, we unfortunately didn't have Catriona with us this weekend, as she's been living-it-up in Roma, lucky thing she is.

Plans for the future. Off to Antwerp (Antwerpen/Anvers) this weekend, and once been there, I have further journeys planned to Liege and Waterloo in Belgium, and then all my Belgian based travelling is complete! With seven weeks to go before I live good ol' Belgique, plenty of travelling is needed! Particularly as the term officially ends for me in 3 weeks time. Where has the time gone. Besides going around Belgium still, I have further trips organised to Lille in France, to Luxembourg City in Luxembourg, and to finally Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Now, I have been to Amsterdam before, and it was fantastic, but despite this I did not have the time to see everything I wanted, so Charlotte, Cat and I are going for a long weekend to see the sites.

Wish I had more.... :/

Unfortunately, I have had to cancel trips again because of lack of funds. Bangor has very kindly removed our (SML 3rd Year) bursaries and thus I missed out on a grand this year... making money very tight. Belgium is not cheap. So when my loan and grant came in I ended up losing a lot of it to the dreaded overdraft, and unlike other times before now, I am refusing to touch it. So, after all necessary monetary requirements (rent and credit card) were removed for the next two months, I had what was left. Which wasn't a lot... manageable, but I could have done with a few hundred more, without sounding greedy of course. Thus, as a result, my trips to Paris, Italy (Pisa and Florence etc.) and Poland have been cancelled. Which I'm disappointed about to say the least.

On another note, my dissertation is not cooperating... silly thing. I'm hoping it will stop throwing it's strop soon and that I can get it sorted.

More soon readers.