K- Day

'K' for Korfball

Korfball, n.  -a mixed gender team sport, with similarities to basketball and netball. A team consists of 8 players and played in 57 countries

So, before you think that I don't know my alphabet and wonder since when did the letter 'K' come after the letter 'I,' I will explain that due to an unforeseen (on my part) Korfball tournament, I did a sneaky swap round of the letters 'J' and 'K.' And so, on Saturday, 'K' stood for KORFBALL! Before you ask 'what is Korfball?' there is a short definition right above this! I mean, seriously! Yes, it is a real sport, yes, it is awesome and yes, you should join the club! On Saturday, the 1st and 2nd teams were off to Edinburgh for the SKA Cup tournament!

This wonderful tournament was handicapped, so us lucky 2nds started with some goals before the game had even begun! Without the extra goals, we would have drawn the 1st match, lost the 2nd one and won the 3rd... but we did have those extra goals, so we won the 1st match, still lost the 2nd one (but by a LOT less) and won the 3rd. By goal difference we managed to win the group stage and so had one more match left to decide who came 1st and who came 2nd in the whole tournament! A rather strange phenomena for the 2nd team, especially since the 1sts were battling it out for 7th place!

The 1st team played their final match first and it ended with some tense penalty shots, ending with a smooth shot from Helena, winning the match and placing them in 7th. Then it was time for our final match against Edinburgh Mavericks, would we win or would we lose?! I was ever so nervous, luckily though it's a team game and everyone else seemed to keep their cool and with some awesome shots put up by the team... WE WON!! YAYYY!! The 2nd team had finally won something this season!! The cup was small, but it was a cup!!! 

Back at Uni Hall, there were some celebratory fireworks just for us! (Well, not really but it felt like that) It's days like these when I realise how much I love being part of a team! K-Day was AWESOME!

I love Korfball! <3

I- Day

'I' for Ice Cream

ice cream, n.  -a smooth, sweet, cold food prepared from a frozen mixture of milk products and flavourings 

Friday was I- Day and 'I' stood for ICE CREAM!! Yummmmyyyy! :D It was meant to be a day of eating ice cream and making ice cream, I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! I love ice cream.

The day didn't get particularly themed until after my lab exam (My last bit of coursework before exams!) around 4.30pm. Even though it had unfortunately started raining by this point, I met Jemima, Helen and Jo at Jannettas and we devoured some tasty ice cream, flavours including 'spicy peach and chocolate,' 'alpine avalanche,' and some ginger sorbet! mmmmmmmm.

After Jannettas we took a trip to Tesco and got some home- made ice cream ingredients, recipe credit to Helena! Whipping cream, condensed milk and chocolate! Since my exam started a little late, and I spent far too long trying to decide on a flavour from the millions at Jannettas, it was tea time by the time we got back to halls and so I had to be patient and wait until after proper food before I could start making ice cream!

So when it was finally time to make some ice cream, I whipped up the cream, stirred in the condensed milk, had some fun bashing up chocolate bars and then mixed them in before having to wait another 4 hours for it to freeze (in various mugs since they were the only things small enough to fit in the freezer)! 4 hours!!! How would I ever wait that long!?!?! Somehow I managed it, and I got to sample the ice cream, which turns out maybe needed a bit more than 4 hours, but I couldn't wait any longer! So me, Amy and Vera ate it anyway. It was very creamy and tasty and ice creamy! Yay!

mmmmmm, yummy ice cream!

H- Day

'H' for High-Five

high five, n.  -a gesture of greeting, elation, or victory in which one person slaps an upraised palm against that of another person

On Thursday, 'H' stood for HIGH FIVE. I was hoping it would be a day of fun high five greetings, high fiving random people on the street and going to bed with a sore hand from all the awesome high fives... but that didn't exactly happen :(

There was just something about H- Day that made it the first day of my project that I kept forgetting what day it was! I wouldn't high five anyone until someone happened to ask me what day it was and then I would remember and do a quick high five of everyone in the room. It was very upsetting! There was no 'lots of people stood in a line with their hands out ready for me to run down and high five them all', and what is a high five day without that?!

So High five day wasn't very successful, I didn't go to bed with a sore hand, and I didn't even count how many high fives I actually did get in the end! On the plus side, there was a beautiful, bright, large moon on thursday night! If only I could have high fived the moon...

At least Ice cream day is next!

G- Day

'G' for Giving

giving, vb.  -freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone)

Getting a little bit behind with this blog now, but I am trying to catch up! On Wednesday 'G' stood for GIVING. Although I feel it is great to be in a giving mood all of the time, I decided to make a day of concentrated giving to my friends.

My friends mean a lot to me and it was nice to give back to them, even if it was only a little bit. There's something comforting about knowing you might have made someone's day a tiny bit better. Plus I enjoyed the funny looks I got when cycling with bunches of flowers poking out of the top of my rucksack. 

I found that when people are expecting gifts, there is a sneaky pressure when trying to know what to get them because you don't want to let them down, but when people aren't expecting anything at all, even something tiny can brighten up their day!

Unfortunately I didn't plan the day very well and only gave gifts to a small number of people and I wish I had given to more people, but you don't need to be told that it's giving day to want to give! Give gifts, give your time, your company, a smile, a hug, anything! You never know, it could possibly be the point in someone's day that turns it from the worst day, into the best one, because you never really know what anyone else is going through. 

G- day has reinforced the notion that giving is such an amazing thing to do. "remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'" Acts 20:35 I want to be a more giving person, not to receive anything in return, but because it really is amazing watching someone's face light up! The day also made me realise the amount of different kinds of gifts I am receiving every day and how I sometimes forget to stop and appreciate them all! Especially the greatest gift of all, "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

So I get the feeling this post has been rather cheesy, but I  guess giving is a little cheesy, that's what's so great about it... right? ...Sharing the love and all!

<3

F- Day

'F' for Fruit

fruit, n.  -the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food

On Tuesday, 'F' stood for FRUIT. The aim was to eat fruit, drink fruit smoothies and fruit juice, just fruitiness and only fruitiness all day. I tried to go for some of the more adventurous fruits rather than just apples and bananananananas.

I took a trip to Sainsbury's on recommendation that I try some Asian Pears, and also got a mango, some coconut, some pomegranate seeds, a pineapple and an innocent smoothie with pomegranates, blueberries and acai. Tasty! The asian pears were some kind of cross between an apple and a pear with the kind of texture of a watermelon, confusing, but quite nice. I had never bought a whole mango before so wasn't really sure how to tell which one would be a good one, so I happened to pick one that was a little unripe but still tasted nice, although I was struggling to cut it open in any kind of half neat way!

I expected to feel a little hungry during the day, I mean you don't usually think of fruit and think 'mmmmmm so filling!' and although the coconut and smoothie were slightly filling, I found that eating fruit didn't just leave me hungry, it made me feel empty, it's like you taste something sweet and trick your body into thinking its something really good like a donut... but then you swallow and there's not really much there and your stomach gets upset and cries and feels all empty because the donut never turned up :( So sad!

From F- Day, I have realised that I really lovely lasagne and donuts, separately though, but maybe a donut lasagne could work... probably not though, actually just no. Ooohh and pizza, can't forget pizza!

6/26ths of the way through!

E- Day

'E' for...

Well, lets see, 'E' was meant to be for EARLY...

early, adv.  -before the expected or usual time

...and I did manage to be early for breakfast and go to bed relatively early in the evening, but I also kind of forgot to do my essay that was in for 5pm, so it could have been 'E' for ESSAY day...

essay, n.  -a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject

...but unfortunately and very sadly, it ended up as more of an 'E' for EPIC FAIL day! :(

epic fail, n.  -the highest form of fail known to man. Reaching this level means only one thing: you must die, or the world will fail itself due to such an extreme level of failage!

I will explain, since I was up nice and early and only had one lecture that day, I believed I had adequate time to write my 2,000 word essay on 'The Church and the State in Chile ca. 1973-1990' and even hand it in a tiny bit early to comply with the original them of the day. It turns out, I did not have adequate time... not at all! (well, almost) The problem I had was with the referencing which, as usual, took me longer than expected, not too much longer, but long enough! So the point is, the deadline to upload was 17:00, and the time I uploaded it? ...17:01... really! GUTTED. That was the early theme over!

In my defence, I would just like to let you know, that there are things I can be early for, such as trains or planes (I feel I have somewhat of a phobia of missing public transport times), things I really enjoy doing because I obviously would not want to miss a minute of having fun! and things that are really important or have people depending on me because I don't really want to let anyone down! However, mostly from 'E'- day, I have learnt that being early can sometimes be a waste of time, what you really need to be, is ON TIME! I promise to everyone that knows me, I'm working on it! :)

Let's hope F- Day goes more to plan!

D- Day

'D' for Doodle

doodle, vb.  -to scribble or draw aimlessly

The aim of today was to wear a t-shirt all day that people could doodle on. (There was also a challenge to get 2 specific people to doodle on it, but I unfortunately failed in that challenge! Ah well.) I thought the doodle top would be a nice thing for people to contribute to and another way to remember my random project other than this blog!

I guess there isn't really much to write about D-Day, I wore the t-shirt and it got doodled on! Since it was a Sunday, I had lots of friends from church filling in a lot of it and then when I got back, C floor people hogged most of the space before I went on a door-knocking rampage!

The t-shirt got well and truly filled up! (Well, mostly... there were some obviously placed gaps). Some doodles were a lot more artistic than others, I especially enjoyed Matt's elephant which he felt required an "I am an elephant" written underneath it. Someone drew a 'Sammy the seal,' someone drew Australia which someone else commented on thinking it was a fried egg... poor Australia. I got a cute picture of a dinosaur, a caterpillar, a spider, a cat, some cartoon faces, a smiling boy, quite a few flowers, some very messy writing, a potato from Irish Amy, a leprechaun, a whale, 'Annie the Asian Penguin,' polka dots that looked like a lego brick... a very eclectic mix of things indeed!

I hope everyone that doodled on my doodle top enjoyed themselves!

Here are the doodles!