On the bright side

Joy and Anthony came up to Warwick on Tuesday morning and we had a great time!

I played Monopoly for the first time and it was really fun - though both Joy and Anthony proclaimed that it spoiled families and friends which I did not understand until we bought property.

They met Nabz and Tiff which was great. They loved Nabz - they agreed with me and felt like she was a Londoner - and they liked Tiff, though felt like she didn't like them. Also, she told my sister that moving out and University is shit and Joy wasn't too pleased about someone spoiling her excitement. We went to Coventry and just chilled in IKEA. It was really fun.


I have enjoyed not having wifi. I have had to walk to the library at Uni to use the internet. It is refreshing in the respect that I do not feel like I am a slave to technology. Also, I have enjoyed having my own room and being home alone. I have been sleeping a lot earlier and I wake up in the morning and feel refreshed and go on a walk and breathe in the cold morning air and it feels so amazing. All alone, I feel so unattached if that makes sense. I am not a friend or a sister or a student or anything to anyone. I am just myself in my own space and I am free and not responsible for anyone else apart from myself. I don't know. I do not have to worry about my little sisters' eating and about my mums' spending and my dads' health problems and getting good grades and looking presentable for others.


I earned 130 pounds working for two days which feels good. On one day, I was making sandwiches - by this, I mean I was literally buttering bread for seven hours. On the other day, I was a fake diabetic patient. Medical students have to do exams called OSCE's where they go around in circuits and do 15 tasks. Each one is 9 minutes - two to read and seven to do the task. They had to explain to me that they were going to give me an insulin and flu injection. They had to explain the routes and check my records and then perform the injection on a fake arm. And I got paid for that. For sitting. They gave us free breakfast and lunch and we got to sign we did an extra 15 minutes we didn't do and we did nothing for an hour and still got paid. It was brilliant.