Work experience, University visits and summer

Well, It's been a busy couple weeks over here, I was on work experience at Paradise Wildlife Park from 17th-2st June 2013; monday-Wednesday I was on Farmyard which was loads of fun, I was cleaning out Rabbits, Guinea pigs, sheep, goats, pig ducks, tenrecs (and cuddling rabbits!).
Then Thursday and Friday I was on Paddocks with Zebra, Camel, Alpaca, Tapir, Wallaby (I wanted to take one home!), fox, deer....

He's a big bunny

This is Boris

Tiny Tenrec (called Puff)

Russian Hamster

Here Mousey Mousey

Boris liked my shoes

And the shovel...

Foxyyyyyy

The following week had a severe lack of lessons as well, Monday and Tuesday were business as usual, although my history teacher was not in, then on Wednesday us year 12's were bundled onto a coach to the University of Essex for a higher education fair, this gave us a chance to talk to people from hundreds of universities across the UK (and made me realise that it may not be a good idea to drop geography) and get some freebies too - a definite high point!

On returning home I headed off to Explorers for a game of real-life where's wally! This consisted of one of our leaders hiding "somewhere" in the town and we had to text questions that he could only answer yes or no to. My team was 2nd to find him so didn't win the prize for finding him first, but we were the first team back to the scout hut by quite a long time so we won a box of lindor chocolates to share. :D

Then on Thursday I headed to Bristol with my Dad for the university open day, the sun was shining, it was warm and I fell in love with the city.
The Archaeology even has a fleet of landrovers for transporting students to various dig sites!
I used the trip to get some photography in, so here's a few of my shots:

Welcome to the Open day (Victoria rooms)

Clifton suspension bridge

View from Clifton Suspension bridge

I think it's a very photogenic city and I could definitely see myself living here and spending summer days sitting in one of the parks with lots of books, working the day away.

I'd best be off, I need to get some work done if I'm going to get the grades to actually get in here! :D


Alons-y!

A Bit About Me!

MEMEMEMEMEME!!

I thought i'd write a bit about me, so you can put a personality to blog, so to speak.

So, me....what can I say?

Well, i'm a 17 year old girl from England, I'm currently embarking on my AS levels in sixth form, and my journey to university is underway.

I've trawled through so many university websites, and initially had a list of about 30 i wanted to visit!

I eventually managed to narrow it down but still ended up ordering about 20 prospectuses! From there, i've managed to narrow it down slightly more and am planning to visit a few open days; I went to Hertfordshire university yesterday, but it didn't inspire me all that much, i'm also planning to look at Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham, Aston, Reading, Leeds, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Exeter, Plymouth and possibly Kent - that's my (quite long) shortlist. Hopefully from that i'll be able to narrow it down to 5!

I'm planning to study psychology or paleontology, it's a tough choice as i've been fascinated with both from such a young age, hopefully i'll be able to make a decision soon though.

Anyway, enough about uni hunting, i've just started trying to write my personal statement (i'm way ahead of schedule, i know) and i need a break from it all, i don't even get my predicted grades for year 12 until next week, let alone year 13!

I suppose the first thing to say is...I love penguins, I mean, who doesn't? Especially emperor penguins - when those fluffy chicks poke their heads out..just...awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!

I'm also an Explorer scout, and I love it, we do so much cool stuff, this week, we're getting all DIY and making wood burning stoves out of old coathangers and GIANT baked bean tins, then we'll be cooking on them. :) Other stuff we've done includes: murder mystery, swimming, camps, problem solving, balloon cars, cardbard castles, which was basically a big water fight in the woods - we had to protect ourselves in forts made out of boxes. They say Explorers are just big beavers. :') There's also a summer camp every year, I only joined last june so this will be my first one - so excited! :D



The bridge we built at Explorers once



The view from Thor's cave - on a camp.



I also enjoy reading when I can find the time, and I love swimming, but I am literally THE WORST swimmer in history. Eating is a pretty good hobby of mine too haha :P

Oh, and I got a new camera last summer for the Olympics and my trip to New York last month - I really enjoy photography, here's some of my photos:

 

I'm quite proud of those.

Anyway, I should probably get going, I have a biology ISA next week and it's my last chance, if i can ace this, it'll take some pressure off from the exams in the summer. Plus i want to watch Miranda tonight - SUCH FUN!

If there's anything you guys want me to blog about (i realise revision and my random pictures may get a bit dull), just comment and let me know! :)

There are 10 types of people in the world - those who can read binary and those who can't.

Alons-y! x