Zoë Johnson

On Saturday Tom and I woke up at around 2pm feeling slightly worse for wear... No matter how much I drink I always get super hungover, and today was no different!! Tom was an angel and got up and made me breakfast in bed! A bacon sandwich and coffee, it was lovely! Bacon does always make me feel better... We stayed in bed for a while watching Chalet Girl and Grand Designs which was fun. I'm really loving the new series of Grand Designs and Chalet Girl is just such a classic! We also went for a lovely walk in the afternoon along the canal in Leicester. It was a lovely crisp autumnal day and it cleared our heads a bit! At around 7ish we headed out for a dinner reservation, and sadly I was still feeling a bit rough!! We had booked a table at Crafty Burger in St. Martins, which is something we'd wanted to go to for ages!! St. Martins Cafe has such a lovely vibe, its full of fairy lights, cool lampshades and other indie looking things! For our meal, I had the El Rojo Burger, ...

On Saturday I got up fairly early to make the most out of my day. In the morning I did a lot of work towards my placement application. I don't know if theres such a thing as putting too much effort in, but it feels like I'm probably doing that!! At this point I'm about halfway through the application. After a quick toastie for lunch I then started working on my essay for Ocean Circulation. The topic I've chosen is Wyrtki jets, which are eastward flowing currents in the Indian Ocean and they're pretty interesting. My main worry with this essay is that I won't find enough to say about them without the whole essay just being references to other peoples work. I got bored of essay research fairly quickly and moved onto something far more exciting... Christmas shopping! Giving gifts is 100% my favourite part of Christmas and I want to be super organised this year! At around 6ish I started preparing dinner. Elin was coming over and I was making my special chow me...

My first lecture on Friday began at 11 and it was meteorology. In the lecture we learnt about moisture in the air, focusing on phase changes and equations of state. I'm still really enjoying meteorology, it's pretty interesting stuff! After meteorology I had a 3 hour gap before maths. I headed home and tackled the kitchen, which took me a whole hour! Once I had finished I did some odd jobs, such as banking and writing a shopping list, and before I knew it, it was time to head back into uni. Todays maths lecture was on streamlines, which I'm actually quite enjoying. I'm feeling pretty good about this maths at the moment, as I tend to come out of the lectures having understood everything, which is always a plus! Once the lecture had finished, I got on the bus and headed to the supermarket to do some food shopping. I decided to head to Morrisons, which I'd never been to in Norwich before but this was the wrong choice! The bus alone took an hour to get there becau...

I only had two lectures yesterday, the first beginning at 11, on Oceanography. We learnt all about how light travels in the ocean, and the word penetrate was used far too often for my liking. Following the Oceans lecture, we then had an hour of maths, which wasn't too bad, but I do feel like I'm beginning to fall behind as it gets more difficult.  At 1 I headed home hoping for a productive afternoon. I spent a ridiculous amount of time on hold to our energy company, and didn't manage to resolve anything. Bills and stuff are so confusing, I really think you should be taught the basics of paying bills and energy tariffs at school to prepare you for adulting. I also spent a long time cleaning the kitchen which just sucks. At about 6 we started to get reading for going out for Abi's Birthday Meal. She had booked a table at pizza hut and I was pretty excited as I'd never been before!! There was 9 of us going and we had a lovely time. I ate a ridiculous am...

On Saturday Tom and I slept in and it was fab! I never normally let myself sleep in because I like to wake up early and get things done but it was lovely! We got up at about 11(!) and nipped out to the cute little bakery at the end of my road to get some breakfast! I'd never actually been in before and it was incredible! It doesn't look much from the outside but it was full of the most delicious looking pastries and cakes! I can't believe I forgot to take a picture, I'm literally kicking myself. I had a lovely raspberry danish and Tom had a sausage baguette and a chocolate orange cupcake, they were so good! I can't wait to go back! After our lil breakfast we got ready for the day and then put Friends on while I did some maths work for my seminar on Monday. We were planning on going outside for a walk in the park nearby, but it was raining so we stayed in! It wasn't long before we were eating again, and we had half the pizza Glen made us and watched Cool Runnin...

Yesterday I had a rude awakening in the form of a 10am Maths lecture. Not much fun. To make matters worse, I had gotten to the bus stop early only to have two buses drive straight past me, making me late for my lecture and a little pissed off. Maths was pretty good once I got there. I didn't miss much as he started off with a recap. We continued work on the gradient operator which I actually really like. I find it super interesting and it all makes sense in my head, which is rare! The lecture went really quickly and then I headed back home as I had LOADS to do to set up for Abi (my housemate) and Emily (my coursemate)'s surprise Birthday party. I spent a ridiculous amount of time working on the mountain of washing up that had accumulated in our kitchen, followed by tackling the mess that my room had become over the last few days. Once the house looked kinda tidy I started on the birthday cake. My housemate Abi is veggie and Emily is vegan so I decided to make a vegan chocol...

Whoa, its been a crazy few weeks! If you didn't already know, I have recently moved out and started uni life at the University of East Anglia, so it's been pretty hectic in my life; with freshers week, meeting loads of new people and beginning my degree! However, while I am loving every second of it, I have unfortunately been neglecting my poor little blog and promising posts to you which have never appeared... sorry! Things have now calmed down a bit and I am establishing a nice routine in my day to keep organised and stop myself from going insane!!! So here it is, the long awaited blog post on my holiday in Pembrokeshire, Wales! From August 29th to September 5th I went on an annual family holiday to Pembrokeshire in Wales. The fam, my boyfriend and my brothers best friend stayed in a little fishing village called Solva (Solfach in Welsh!), which is so cute, and I think is my favourite place in Wales that I have been so far. We stayed in a gorgeous cottage called Tan y Craig...