Tuesday 21 June 2011

Last Week in Leeds

There are so many things I can't believe right now. My time in Leeds over. The friends I've made I won't be seeing every day. I also can't believe I'm already in Poland, starting a 5 week trip around Europe. It's a bit ridiculous. Since getting back to Leeds after lake district it was pretty well go go go. We got back in the afternoon on Tuesday, Evan's birthday. We went to the Eldon to celebrate which worked out perfectly as it just so happened to be our Tuesday night there.

Wednesday was organising day. Well, a bit. I Skyped the parents and worked out how I was getting home and then met Amber in town to look for some shoes as my globes from home were dying. The afternoon was spent packing and getting my room ready for my departure. That night we met Kayt's parents at Balti King after which we went to Gatecrasher...finally. I don't know how many Times I'd promised Emma I would go. I tell you what though, I would hate to be a hot girl in one of those places, always getting hit on by drunk guys, I'd say some love it though. Most of us left about 1:30 but Mitch, Amber, Faye and I stayed til about 2:30. It was awesome, I almost left with everyone else but last minute changed my mind and as I did the good music started. We're talking classic and indie rock rather than that rubbish top 40 crap club music.

So I got to sleep about 3:30 and set the alarm for 8 to pick up Chantelle from the train station. Yay for sleep. It was a really nice day, the sun was out and it was warm. I took her through the markets and Victoria quarter and up through Millennium Square. Had a coffee at Opposite Cafe (Opposite the uni) then met Evan at the Eldon for lunch. Not long after, the others joined. We then sat in Hyde park for a bit and went home to meet Evan (Flett) and Steve.

Friday: the most hectic day I had in Leeds by a big margin. I set the alarm early to go meet Emily at her place to finish booking our trip. I came home and got ready for some company to pick up my luggage. Once that was done I felt a lot less tense. I walked downtown and met Chris on the way and bought some stuff for the night. People started arriving at North Hill about 4:30, at which point I will still packing up my life. I needed my room to be cleared out by the time we left at 6:30. The evening was really cool, we had champagne and took some nice photo's of us all looking hot. All the girls looked so gorgeous as you can imagine. Chris did a great slideshow of the semester which of course cannot go close to capture all the memories we've created. We finished on a high with Chris and my 'band' A Common Wealth playing Yellow by Coldplay and then an encore was demanded so we threw together a mashup of Journey's Don't Stop Believing and Ke$ha's Tik Tok - two of our theme songs.


At Summer Ball there really isn't a lot to say except that it was practically a small music festival. We had a ride, bought some beers and Jager, and danced to the DJ. The second last band ended and at 1:45 and we had to wait and hour and a half for Florence to come out. The crowd was SO pissed, seriously, every new song the DJ played everyone started booing. She was really good though, but it was so hot up the front after waiting for so long so Ana, Amber and I didn't stay long. We got a drink and moved back to the side.

The night ended smoothly, we got a coach quickly and got back to anas to get our stuff. The taxi pulled up and we said our goodbyes. It was just like something out of a movie. It was so sad, many a tear was shed, I'm going to miss our little group an incredible amount.