the past 2 weeks have been nothing but sunshine! (for the most part). now if only it will warm up a bit! the daffodils are in bloom and the students are playing in the fields. i never realized how many fields/turfs/courts we have until i jogged around campus. kristen and i have decided to attempt to get into shape (summer is right around the corner), and today we're going to walk into town. last week we finally ended our lectures, so now we just wait until our exams in may/june giving us quite a bit of free time. i really need to start studying, considering that the exams are weighted 50-60% of the entire grade, yikes! but to end our semester us girls went into town on friday and had a nice dinner at an italian restaurant and then celebrated later that evening.
yesterday we booked our flights to rome, prague, amsterdam, and back to lancaster. we're still waiting to buy our ticket to copenhagen... sometimes it can be such a pain trying to use american cards--they just don't validate which is quite annoying. hopefully we'll get it all situated, and then we'll book our trains to florence, venice, and berlin. it should be a great trip! and we're ending in sweden for midsummer (their biggest holiday) to visit friends who i met at work several summers ago. super exciting :)
last night kristen and i went to a fundraiser called "Love Music Hate Racism" at one of the bars here on campus. one of our friends organized the event so we figured we'd support her.. besides who doesn't love live music? we found out that there is lots of racism towards muslims over here in england. a speaker compared it to the nazis and the jews, because there's a political party that protests about how muslims are 'taking' their jobs and they have been quoted to say 'burn the mosques'. how sad! here's a little excerpt from the event: "Racism seeks only to divide and weaken us. Love Music Hate Racism was set up in 2002 in response to rising levels of racism and electoral successes for the Nazi British National Party (BNP)." so i'm glad we supported a good cause to stop the racism and listen to some good tunes. two of the performances were acoustic guitar singers, my type of music! and the last performance was by a band that is actually signed...a legit rock gig. they looked like they just stepped out of the 80s with what they were wearing! and they definitely knew how to whip their hair back and forth! here's a glimpse of their music: http://www.myspace.com/itseliminator
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