W2, Day 9

Today everyone was either stressed out over work, exhausted or going through a heart break caused by rushing into relationships. I'm personally suffering from headaches,  temperature and polyp. I've finally done my work, submitted essay & PowerPoint which I thought was impossible.  And have completed business unit. Today we had a really interesting lecture about public communications. Our group includes 2 girls and me. Other 2 had a massive fight over irrelevant stuff and I had to cope with it.  By the end of the day  they left,leaving all the work on me. The fight they had was absolutely over nothing, but whole summer uni knows about this drama. Our tutor gave us sweets at the end of the lesson which was really nice of him. It was our lecture and tomorrow we will have our presentations, seminar and last business lesson. Next week I'm starting geography, and our first lesson is the field trip.
Everyone kept asking me if I was okay  and all looked at me with sadness on the face. And I do look sick.. that's why we decided to go and refresh in the sauna and swimming pool. It was really nice, me, Tilly and David.  After we went for dinner and then headed down to hub for movie night. But ended up doing David's work. No one has a good mood today so we just decided to cope with it.
Tomorrow is Friday which means home time!
Plans for next week : Shopping, beach, fitness classes, rock climbing and disco party!

Day 7/8

Days here fly so fast. It feels like it's only 2 hours in a day. There is not enough time! Last 2 days are a bit stressful as I can't keep up with the work. But now I've kind of done my essay just need to reference everything and check on plagiarism checker online.  It's Wednesday today and I've spent the whole day in the library finishing my essay. I had a headache from computer and all I could hear in my head is "you aren't good enough for this. Your English is not smart enough." So before we went for a meal out in town I just finished my essay and all the thoughts were so pressuring which made me cry. It was really embarrassing but I hope no one have seen except for some of my closest friends. I couldn't stop for long time, and it's all just because of the useless voices saying that I'm not good enough. My leader have spoken to me and said she will check it through with me. So in the evening after a meal in town we looked through and she said that it looks really good, and some of the phrases I slwrote and thought they sounded stupid for her were really nice. She was impressed with my sentence : "Topshop are now adapting their clothing to 90's fashion with according music playing  in store". To me it seems stupid, but she was really impressed with it and even told about it other leaders which now shows that I'm "hard working " and "care about my work".
Yesterday we went sloup skiing and tomboling. Yes,there is no snow here but they created fake sliding hills with wet grass. Skiing was really terrifing for me but it was something worth trying. Never again tho. But then we went down the hills, it was fun. Its our copy of winter slides. Everyone in Summer Uni devided in social groups, but I'm the leader of the biggest one, and everyone wants to be in it. I'm not even joking.  Today me and Sara went out in our leader groups, had some Asian food and...FRIED ICE CREAM! What?? I know!
Tonight we've spent in the hub, everyone was playing games,but I played a bit of tennis and then me and David were working on my assignment.
For marketing we have to market the project,and I'm not in the best group. I knew it straight away,  but girls against boys wouldn't work. So yeah,in our girl group we have a massive argument over ingredients in our conditioner which makes us have nothing at all, even though we literally have 24 hours to make a presentation, develop a product and write a report.  And as I've said in the beginning,  24 hours here are like 2 hours.

Day 6, Week 2

Day 6
Monday 25th
Bus journey didn't seem that long as we had to discuss all the news and gossips with everyone. I spent most of the time with Kieran, Chris, Ethan and Logan it was fun. When we got there and met everyone it was so exciting. Even the leaders looked really happy, as it  was boring for them on the weekend.
We had lunch which took much longer than it should have because we were laughing a lot. Me and Tilly took chips and cake again to share. We decided to try different cakes, and there is an unbelievable choice. We had a meeting,  and I couldn’t hold my excitement as we found out this week activities : dodge ball, sloup skeeing, cinemas, movie night and a meal out in town ☺ Plus fitness classes, gym, sauna, football, swimming and rock climbing.
Today after lunch I have spent all my free time in the library working on essay. I decided to write about music influence in fashion. It is quite hard and I was stressing out as I reached only 60 words in 2 hours while doing my research which was useless. Then we had dinner with our big squad which was so fun I couldn't stop laughing.  We had tacos and beans and then weird but tasty crumble mix. We went to change to be ready for the dodge ball and then went straight to the sport centre. We were playing dodge ball in teams but then when the winner was announced we had a free time so we went playing football  with boys. I still can't get used to the fact that I'm now sporty and I don't run out of breath just by walking.
We played football which improved some of friendships and made our squad even  bigger.
Then I couldn't find my lanyard so u had to look for it and we went to hub. It was on Cayo who was watching how others play playstation band games. He didn't even realise it was on him. So we had a cuppa played table hockey, tennis and pool. Today is fun and I'm super excited for tomorrow, especially the food part!

Day 3-5

Day 3-5
On day 3 after studying we head to town for a meal out with our groups and Town Challenge. We had to complete some tasks and take funny pictures. Me and Sara had a massive sharing platter for 2 while talking about the gym tomorrow. We had a free membership to use gym, fitness classes, sauna, climbing wall and swimming pool.
Lessons are so interesting! I really enjoy studiyng marketing. We don't realise how much it's mind controlling. On Thursday's we have our last evening. So after lessons me and Sara went for a gym induction.  And then decided to do some sports. Me and her are so the same, we were talking about instagram models and how we look like them so when we were doing exercises and other gym induction group from summer uni came up. The instructor pointed on us saying : "These 2 ladies are going to demonstrate you how these machines work". We had straight faces but we both had jumping rabits in our heads and we both knew what we thought.  As soon as the group left excitement boosted through as if our dreams came true. We spent about an hour exercising and half an hour taking pictures.  After the gym we went to get ready for our disco,we went for a shower and that had our make up done. After Tilly called me to her room to help choose what to wear. We decided her and Laurens outfit and then we had literally 2 minutes for mine. Our summer uni group went to  went on the coach to go to disco hall. It looked like year 6 disco but we made it fun! Most of the people went on their phones straight away,but me, Sara and Tilly smashed it from the first song that came on. Later the was a bit of drama going on so the disco was spoiled because of it. But everyone seemed to have a good time.
Friday!
It was easier to wake up on first days but still fine. I love breakfast! We have English breakfast, cereals, yougurts and croissants with a starbucks coffee machine. So after breakfast I usually grub a cup of tasty Mocha with chocolate sprinkles and go to morning meeting in lecture theatre. We had our marketing class and then head down to the Hub. We collected £25 of our weekly allowance and lunch. We can take sandwich, snack and fruit. We went to the music room with Alex and Tilly for our last half an hour before heading back home. Now I'm on the bus 2 : 30 done, and 2.30 to go. Will see you on Monday.

Day 2

It was pretty hectic.  It might have been better if we the weather wasn't at it's peak of hotness at 30°C. But we   have had a chance to go to the beach! 
In the morning after breakfast at 7.30, we went to Core Skills lessons which is a computer room with hidden in table computers. Me and Sara were so shocked so we started filming everything. The atmosphere was amazing because it felt like we are students but we know that we are allowed to have a lot of fun. After the core skills I went straight to Business and Marketing lesson. Our group is the smallest but still it was a very educative lesson. The tutor was nervous in the beginning but with the time he was confident and gave a lot of information. We have to write a 1000 word essay by Monday already,  so I'm kind of starting to panic. Some of the facts I remember from today's class are:
- Some companies use marketing as science,  philosophy or art. For example, starbucks is using it as a philosophy "inspiring one person, one neighbourhood and one cup at a time. " This show in their "personalised" drinks that reach out to the customer to make them feel unique and special by simply writing their name on the cup.
- Coca- Cola is using it as a science in a way that they research their market and apply branding to a very specific type of customers. For example, coca cola life for economic friendly, family size bottles for families, diet coke for girls , coke zero for boys. Fun fact coke zero and diet coke are the same thing! Just one is targeted at males and other at females.

After the lessons I was trying to meet Tilly and Alex but we have a very different timetable that didn't let us meet. So I had lunch with some girls and then went into hub. By the way food here is amazing! But deserts.. always make me wanna take them. So then I  had free time, had nothing to do so was researching marketing in everyday life on my phone.
After Tilly & Alex finished their lessons we went to the beach. It's absolutely brilliant!  I felt like I was overseas and important thing there are so many well dressed people!
I couldn't go in for girls reason but water was too cold anyway for me. We had to head back to the uni soon so we caught  a taxi which was just a pound for each of 3 of us. After we had our dinner we went for a pub quiz. Basically we have competition bet our groups and they included chubby bunny challenge,  eat yougurt without hands and quiz.  Me and Sara were sitting there during the quiz realised we don't know anything and we will just work in Mcdonalds.
Now that we've finished all the activities at 10 we had time to do our homework and have a shower. I'm really enjoying myself here, it's absolutely fantastic!  See you tomorrow!

Day 1

I'm on the bus right now trying to read the book but amazing views distract me from anything.  It looks magical.

Already made some friends with girls from Newport and Cardiff area so I'm not lonely for sure. Anyway Tilly and David that I met on the open day seemed like I'm gonna get along with them. We were chatting on Facebook all this time and I can't wait to see them in real life again.
We will be arriving at 12 so will see how it goes and write later.
Arrival.
We arrived 2 hours late because of the bus that couldn't go on the hill and decided to break down. Even though everyone was moaning I still couldn't held my excitement. Eventually we got to our uni and we're given id cards, badges and bottles for water. After we went for a lunch where you allowed to take meal and desserts. I had tasty mango sauce chicken and roasted potatoes. We were rushed as we had to go to the meeting in the lecture room.

 There I finally met Tilly.
We were alocated the rooms on the different floors but we found the way as we are both at the end of coridorrs  we have this secret door which leads from my room to hers. By the way my neighbour is Sara, which looks like instagram model. When I saw her I was starting at her thinking "wow she is probably a model, look at her hair, look at her face. Am I staring?  Now she will think I'm a creep or smth!"
It's funny but when we were alocated the rooms nearby we started talking and it appeard that she thought exactly the same thing! We were laughing so hard!!
As we went on library tour everyone kept moaning while the librarian was trying to make jokes. All he got back is silence as the heat and long journey got everyone exhausted.  After the whole "learning" bit we went to the Lounge block. There are table games like chess, table tennis, table hockey and pool. And another room with beverages and TV with loads of different DVD'S.
After we had our dinner (salad & fruit pie) we had to go into the group activities trying to build relationships and get to know each other.  So the best team in all of the challenges will get a prize at the end of the summer uni. Well, my group doesn't seem like the wining one but fingers crossed!
All other time we had spare so me and Tilly and Sara started getting closer and we now like a gang. I like them both they are very easy going. We planned sleepover and makeovers already so I'm very excited for that. Before sleep, me and Tilly wanted to have like a small party in the room but no one turned up and boys were locked for coming up to the girls rooms. I'm in room 777 by the way which is the coolest number here!
 Breakfast is at 7.30 and I'm gonna go to bed so I will look good and have fresh mind tomorrow. 30°C it is tomorrow!
Good night!