Reading Week, Manchester, Work Work Work, Kyoto, Prize Giving, Fieldtrip to Scotland!! NOW COMPLETE!

Quite a lot to write about as you can tell from the title, so lets get on with it!

This last week I've had no lectures, tutorials or seminars - it was Reading Week!!! Hurrah!
Reading week is like a half-term only that you get to do your own reading around the subject and catching up on any work you are behind with - its great!
Of course lots of us do some work then either go home or visit our mates who also have a reading week, this brings me nicely onto Manchester! From Thursday to Saturday afternoon I departed Leeds and caught the TransPennine Express (train for those who don't know) across to Manchester where I met my best friend Becky in Manchester Piccadilly station. She is at the Unviersity of Manchester reading Theology & Religious Studies. Its so not fair! She has Internet Connection in her room as standard as well as a telephone line with free internal calls to her mates! - Nothing like this in leeds - perhaps we have too much work to do?? Oh well!!
Went round the shops whilst i was there - had a good time and managed to tell her what God is doing at the moment over here in Leeds... Watch This Space!
I also had the priveledge of travelling on the Metrolink tram across Manchester to Manchester Victoria Station.... back to leeds....

I've recently had to write an essay about the impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on an Industrial sector in the EU. This was very difficult as in many of the books no significant impacts were mentioned. You had to decide what the impacts were etc. which meant then that the arguement was a little vague. Least it was only a practice! :)

The night of Thursday 11th November 2004 was QMHS Prize Giving! The day that i would receive my A-level certificates infront of an appreciative crowd at Walsall Town Hall. Needing to be seated at 7:15pm I arrived in Walsall at 7pm after Virgin Trains & Central Trains both had delays en route from Leeds & Birmingham New St respectively. But once i was there it was great to catch up with all my friends i had not seen since study leave all those months ago - and i managed to get their numbers as i didnt have a phone last time i saw them! :D

The very next morning had to wake up at 4:30 to catch the first train at 6am so as to arrive back in Leeds ready for lectures from 10-12 then a fieldtrip to Scotland at 3:30 that afternoon!
Arrived back at my hall at 8:55 just in time to catch some breakfast and pack a little more for scotland. After lectures returned back to Devonshire (Dev) and finished packing the warm clothes.
In the highest villages in Scotland - Wanlockhead (where the highest Pub in scotland is) & Leadhills we were put into groups to collect soil and sediment samples. This meant getting blasted by a freezing cold gale on Saturday whilst soil sampling and getting wet in size 14 waders as it rained during sediment sampling in the local streams.

However, each night we were in pub playing pool for 20p! and were in there from 9pm on Friday night til about 11/12 and from about 8 (after our evening meal in the pub) til 12. Lots of fun with a bunch of students who totally fill the entire pub! They must've made a killing even though the price of 1/2 pint of Lemonade & Lime was just 50p!

Since coming back we have now had to analyse these samples in the laboratory. :-) Fun!

This weekend i've been called up into the Leeds University Union Music Society Symphonic Wind band to play in a concert tonight & a festival competition tomorrow - needing to wake up for 8am on a Sunday morning!

Right i'd better go - been rambling enough already!

Take care everybody!

Tuba