I'll pick up just after returning from Copenhagen... yeah yeah I know, this needs more Chronology but after my next post hopefully I will have sorted it out a bit better.
So Wednesday the 10th of Feb I had the day off uni and decided it would be a good day to visit Chantelle who had just recently moved to York - about
half an hours train ride from Leeds. First thing we did was visit the train museum. Then Mitch joined us and we visited (and climbed) York Minster, which is an absolutely amazing cathedral, and climbed up to the top for a great view of York. Then we walked down the Shambles, found one of Chantelle's friends playing a red piano in the street, and visited Chantelles home and work: The Black Swan - the oldest pub in York. It was so cute and had the best character to it. After this a trip to the York Museum was in store, the highlight of which involved Mitch climbing into one exhibit to pretend to eat some toast, and Chantelle into another to put on a hat.Thursday night we we invited to a masquerade ball down at the casino near Clarence Dock. None of us (guys) really had another "ball-y" to wear but we impovised pretty well. Jeans and a tie is a good look right? The ball itself was not the most awesome thing, but I/we did have fun at the tables since I'd never really been to a casino before. I put down 5 pound on black and doubled up straight away. After that I didn't need to pay any more money and came out even.
Friday night was an interesting experience, and a really fun night. Our Malaysian flatmates threw a Chinese New Year party and had a bunch of their friends over. They cooked some damn awesome food and there was so much of it. Best part of the night was probably learning a new way to cheers. Essentially it involved yelling out what you're cheersing to and then yelling really loud.
So it is now Saturday, and Evan, Kayt, Chris, Emma and I took a day trip to Newcastle - the fourth city I will have been in since Monday. Newcastle was ok, but our Newcastle is better. Interesting enough, however, they do have a breakwall and a lighthouse on the beach as well. We walked out this (I reckon about a km) breakwall and on the way back had waves crashing over us, it was a bit funny. There wasn't a whole lot to see but we made fun from it.
Sunday was Valentines Day!! Which means I went to see Lostprophets. Not much to say about this except that it was awesome and they played all my favourites...except for the song that got me into them in the first place.
Skipping ahead to next Wed the 17th was the Canadian Otley run. An Otley run is a bar crawl that is very popular in Leeds and they are always themed. For this one we decked ourselves our in as much red and white as we could find.Evan is dressed as Alex Trebek (who for some reason at this stage of the night has a Hitler moustache) and Emma is dressed as Chris....who is Canadian. I'm just there being awesome.And this seems to be about it for now. All the highlights of life around Leeds. A few days later we went to Edinburgh which is already written, came home from that, recouped and had a pretty easy week in preparation for Prague.
The Americans in our group have started to notice the words that us Australians use that they don't. The most popular ones have been "heaps" "keen" "arvo/servo" "bugger" and "dag". Most of which - when spoken by Evan - are hilariously used out of context. Eg "Man that is arvo".
So by now I am pretty well up to date, hopefully everything from here on in will be in some kind of chronological order which will prompt me to update a bit more regularly.
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