Final Finish

I am now officially done with my schooling here at Hertfordshire. I finished my last exam on Wednesday afternoon, and I'm so glad to be done. All in all I think the exams went okay. I don't really know how to measure how I did since they were all essay format. It's also pretty hard to adjust to how they want you to write it, or how they will be grading it. But I tried to give it my best and do what I could. 

As a celebration of finishing my classes and exams my friend Aisling and I went into London yesterday. Our main objective was a shopping trip at our favorite place called Primark. They have really cute and affordable clothes. The place is huge and can get pretty busy as the day goes on, since Oxford Street is a busy shopping street anyway. So we got up early enough to catch the 9:30 bus that goes in London. It put us into London and right in front of the store at about 10:30. We ended up staying at Primark till about 12:30. I found a couple things like 2 new tops, shoes, a tote bag and a necklace. It was time for lunch so took our sandwiches we brought with us to Hyde Park. We walked further into the park to get near where the little pond was. It was such a lovely sunny day! It's amazing how one minute you can be on the crazy bustling street, and then you get further into the park it's all quiet. All the city noise seems to disappear. It's brilliant. 

This shopping trip was not over with just Primark. After eating our lunch we walked to the Hard Rock Cafe Store, so both Aisling and I could get a few things there. I ended up buying a Hard Rock Cafe London shirt. I had to, it might be the only thing that has London written on it, so I splurged. We walked back towards Oxford street to get to this place called Pure Waffle. Aisling and I went on one of the first visits to London. We'd just happened on it when we were looking for a place to eat. The first time I just got a plain waffle with maple syrup, because I was seriously budgeting. But today was a treat so I got the waffle with chocolate sauce and a scoop of vanilla ice cream in the middle of the two wedges. It was amazing! I didn't want it to end! Before heading out we stopped into a couple different souvenir shops to find gifts for our family. I couldn't believe how many bags I collected! It was a successful shopping trip seeing as I had about 4 shopping bags. We had to wait about an hour to catch the bus, so we went over to Hyde Park again and sat out in the sunshine. 

My adventures into  London are not finished yet! I plan on going in as much as I can in the next 2 weeks. 

Cheers!

One Month Left

I can't believe I'm posting about having one month left. It's been such an amazing adventure here. I remember posting about being here for the first month! Now it's time to post about the last month! 

The next two weeks are not going to be easy. I have four exams I have to tackle. My studying has to completely change. The exams are all essay format, and basically 2 hours of writing that they expect you to be in there the whole two hours. Instead of studying here they do something called Revision. It's a form of studying, but I guess quite different because you are almost doing a mock essay question. I haven't really gotten used to it all yet. I need to have a better plan of attack soon so I do well on the exams. My exam dates are May 12th, 15th, 19th, and 20th. 

I'm set to leave June 6th. However am debating about changing my ticket to go home earlier. I haven't quite decided this. I need to think and pray about it. I will definitely miss all my friends here, though being home earlier than planned will be nice. God will show me what the right decision is, I just have to pray about it. 

If I do end up staying till the original date of June 6th, I plan on making several trips into London. I want to get up there as much as I can before I leave. It's been so nice having it only be 30 minutes away. I've definitely gotten used to London being so close! 

It's getting later..and I need to plan out my study plan for tomorrow.

Cheers!!!!!