I HATE BEING SICK!

This is the older part of wills, this isn’t where I live, but it’s where I eat, they have HUGE rooms and the rooms are drafty, so orginally built with wood fireplaces, they now all have gas fireplaces to keep themselves warm.

This is a pasture we walked through at Mendips, see the beautiful cows!

Thursday, December 01, 2005

Wow, can’t believe it’s December already! November seemed to just fly by this year. There’s only about 2 weeks left of school before the holidays! I hate leaving updates to my site for almost a week, but I’ve been sick! Luckily, I had Tuesday off, and only one lecture on Wednesday that I was able to miss and get the notes off someone else. I was pretty much bed-ridden, a little nausea, but mostly just severe headache and fever. I went into the Student Health Services today with swollen tonsils and it was concluded that I have strep-throat, which I could have guessed because this is about the 3rd time I’ve had it. It’s more the fever than anything, it give me such a bad headache and stiff neck that I can feel it every few hours when the Ibuprofen wears off. My throat’s actually not too bad, as long as I keep drinking fluids it doesn’t get to sore. So yes, that’s been my week since Tuesday.

Saturday, I went hiking in the Mendips, just south of Bristol. It was pretty stunning scenery and mostly nice weather (sunny for about 4 hrs, then as what usually happens in Bristol RAIN!). But it was a good day. I was there with the expeditions society, so we had a map, with checkpoints and questions laid throughout the area. We had to get the questions and answer them and we had tasks to do at each of the checkpoints. It was awesome, tons of fun. It was neat too, some of the trails went through people’s farms, so we were just walking past cows, jumping over cow patties, leaving the gates open behind us (just kidding). Afterwards we went to a really classic English pub, I mean it was really dark, the walls were wood, there were wood fires burning, low ceilings, locals (most of whom had brought their dogs along for a pint) and loads of real English ale. I had a local ale, for the life of me I can remember, but it was really good. After returning home, I managed to eat a quick mean, get changed into my suit and still head out for a house party with the expeditions society after a day of hiking! Good times.

Sunday, I played two games of hockey in which we lost both, but should have won both. The first game was against the doctors from Frenchay hospital – we got to play at the campus of the University of Western England (UWE) which is also in Bristol, but it was kinda neat because they have a campus university (like Guelph in Canada) whereas University of Bristol is sorta scattered throughout the city (that’s why I don’t really take pics of the campus, because there really isn’t one!). So we played these doctors, who played well, but when we play most of the game in their end, we should’ve scored more goals then they did (maybe it’s my fault!). Same with the afternoon, we played one of the halls’ hockey teams and they beat us 1-0, and literally the whole game was in their and their goal went under my foot, which really pissed me off. We did stick around an practice afterwards, so I got to practice my dives, and tackles which were pretty fun (in turf hockey, the goalie can run out and sort of slide tackle the ball from the opponent (or just block it by lying down), only one problem, you’re on your ass if they manage to get around you! That’s why I need a bit of practice; I’m just sort of learning what to do. It was fun though.

Hopefully I’ll be better for this weekend. Bristol Medics are going to Leicester to play their medics’ teams. I’m hoping to catch up with Allison (only briefly, because I know she’s studying hard for exams, but I can’t wait to see her!).

-Later,
Pete

These are a picture from pub golf a while ago, this pic got sent to me so I thought I put it up here, and another pic from mendips from the highest point in the area, you could see the bristol channel and the mouth of the avon.