Week 3. Pt.2

The week was so busy and spontaneous that I had no time to write.  Geography is driving me crazy as I don't understand anything,  and I don't think anyone does. The tutors have been studying in the university for 10 years ( they aren't real tutors just students ) so they don't see the difference between geography beginners and advanced professionals. I have no idea how I'm gonna pass this block, but I will try and hopefully will get at least pass mark.  
On Wednesday we had a meal out in town with the leaders after which we went to the beach with our squad where we all took pictures before wave hitted us and we were all soaking wet. Then we were playing games and running away from water. But then wave went over David and Eman. The water was coming closer and closer to the fence and was getting crazily dangerous now. The waves were massive and the wind was scary. So we had to walk up the hill, all soaking wet and cold.  When we got to the Hub we were told we aren't able to go to the rooms until 10. So barefoot we were playing table tennis and hockey in games room. On the next day, we had sport theme disco. The music was old so to escape boredom me and Hannah  started playing voleyball with beach ball. Then people one by one started joining in then the whole summer uni was playing this volleyball game! Every single person! Then we had to dance to some random old songs but I decided to just enjoy the time without moaning how rubbish the music is.
It was so hard to wake up on Friday morning. I thought : 'Do I even need to be in this summer uni? I could just sleep and if they don't like it they can kick me out.'  But no, eventually I stood up and went for a morning meeting. As we were late we just grabbed Mocha and croissants from TamEda and went to lecture theatre. During core skills one of my friends received an email from Miss Wales that she needs to come for audition. This is crazy! After all the lessons we went to grab lunch and money. While we were on the bus we all shared food and all came up with an idea we aren't friends anymore, we are family. 
Then in Brecon when bus stopped, 4 of us went to the toilet. But when we came out realised that our bus was gone. We soon saw on the road, so we all sprinted screaming for the bus to stop. The bus driver thought that everyone was joking about us being in the toilet. That was really funny, but I had a mini heart attack as I had a train at 7 to catch to Birmingham and i didn't want to be left in Brecon.

Week 3.

Week 3. Monday & Tuesday

On Monday we arrived to the campus and found out that my geography class is in the mornings which I'd lucky. Most of my friends are in the Geography class which is CLASS!
During lunch I showed everyone my postcards and me and Slawek decided to send one today. We went to the library to get address of a random person and then headed down to the town. We've spent like half an hour looking for the postcards while it was raining and then went to the post office to send out postcards.
In the evening we had a pool party but I didn't go, we just went to watch.
Tuesday.
Finally, again morning, waking up at 6, going for breakfast at 7, Mocha to take our to the morning meeting and core skills.
We have a very "exciting" assessment coming up. But oh well , it is always a challenge. For Geography trip on a very rainy day we went to some unhabitat random field where we were looking on the mud from 5 years ago. It was all so weird and random.  I didn't get anything. Literally. And we've got questions to answer,  field trip reports and an essay on the topic I have no idea about. Oh well, this is gonna be a real challenge. At least I'm the only girl in the group of 15 people.
I was glad to be back from the trip as I was soaking wet. We had lunch and I went to the library to find some russian literature.
We went to watch Finding Dory and after went to the beach for some pictures. Then we realised we going to be late so we sprinted to get a taxi back up. Then we had a little party in David's room before we were all kicked out of there.
Business results : 65%

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!