A Travelers Heart...

Definitely got one of those! Despite coming home from one week on Gran Canaria at 3 o’clock in the morning on Sunday, at 12 o’clock I was up and ready to go again!! My friend Helene who always seems to want to travel when she shouldn't, asked it I wanted to go to a city north of Cambridge called Ely, since she had a marketing test the next day which she hadn't read much for... ha ha, so why not!

It'a not a very big city (it's not even a city) just a small village 15 minutes by train.. But it was really nice and I like  seeing some of the smaller towns and villages of England, not just the big ones...They had a beautiful cathedral there, so we went to see that, but apart from that we just walked around and took some pictures... 

The Grand C!

Nooo not the Grand Canyon, but GRAN CANARIA! Came back Sunday morning at 3 o'clock after a fabulous week there! Not really that much to say about what we did.. Didn't really do that much, it was just so incredibly good to be away from school and homework and the cold winter days of England... Just lay on the beach all day relaxing, eating good food out every night, sitting on the balcony watching the sun go down++ Didn't take too many pictures, but here are a few:

  

  

Beautiful sunset flying in to Las Palmas

View from our balcony

Happy Valentines day! Girls night out..

Out for a walk

Our hotel, Cala D'Or

At the beach

                                                           

                                                           
                                Invited the boys over for hamburgers

Oh happy days!

Life is great! Finished with my English ESOL exam, vacation for a week, going to Gran Canaria TODAY!! Can't wait!! Bus will be leaving in one hour, so have to start get ready... Suitcase packed and I'm (almost) ready to go! Snowing outside here in Cambs, so will be really good to go somewhere warm! The weather forecast however isn't that great on Gran Canaria,  it's supposedly going to rain a few days, but should be fun anyway.. Us four girls are leaving today, and then the boys will be there on Monday.. So seven all together.. Should be fun! Can't wait!! My first time in Spain as well..Valentines day on Sunday so will probably go out to eat just us girls, but apart from that we don't really have any plans.. Just relaxing and enjoying our holiday in the sun (hopefuly it won't rain too mush) And also, happy mothers day tomorrow mom! I love you.

Oh, and last week I ordered a trip to Amsterdam! So having a girls weekend there in March with four other girls in my class...Hmm.. what else it there? Oh yes! I forgot to tell you all, but I got a hold of four LIVERPOOL tickets to go see a game on the 28th! Tickets are REALLY hard to get, so I was sooo happy I got some really good tickets... Their my favorite soccer team, so can't wait for the game! So much coming up now in february, It'll be awesome! Well, have to go now.. See ya!  Que pase un buen día!

A Great Day

On Saturday I went to London with two girls in my class to go to Notting Hill and later on I was meeting my cousin Amanda, who I haven't seen in five years. All in all, a GREAT day!! Got up early and took the bus to the train station, then the train in to London, went to Notting Hill with Simone and Helene and we found all the film locations from the epic movie "Notting Hill". The book store, the tattoo parlor, the blue door (which isn't blue any more) and many other places from the movie.. After walking around Portobello marked and Notting Hill for a few hours it was time to go to Big Ben to meet Amanda!!! Hadn't seen her since 2005, so was really looking forward to spending the day with her. Took the underground to Westminster station, and there she was! By Big Ben with her two friends Brittany and Leila. So the four of us walked around London, ate fish and chips, went to Buckingham Palace, Harrods++ I had a great time with you Amanda, and hopefully it won't be so long until next time! Maybe only a few weeks! I'll also be looking out for cheap flights to Barcelona :)
  

Notting Hill!

"The tattoo parlor with the guy outside who got drunk and can’t remember why he choose I love Ken”

 The famous "Blue door" at the flat of William Tucker (Hugh Grant) 

too bad it isn't blue anymore.

The bookstore

Lilly's in London <3

Leila, Amanda and Brittany at Buckingham Palace:)

HELLO February! :-)

Finally the month is here. This month, February 2010 is going to be the most awesome month like EVVER! And why you might wonder? Well I'll tell'ya!

Meeting my cousin Amanda which I haven't seen

 in five years, in London on the 6th! Can't wait!

Puerto Rico, Spain, 13-20th, with 6 wicked friends!

 My 18th Birthday on the 24th

Lady gaga concert on the 26th 

SKYDIVING (!!!!) on the 27th 

and maybe see a Liverpool game on the 28th ??

LIFE IS GOOD J

Norwich..I guess..?

Oh I’m horrible.. Haha I can’t sit still! A weekend without travel feels like a wasted weekend.. I wasn’t planning on going anywhere this week, but sitting in a boring Spanish class Friday afternoon, one of my friends Helene and I were talking about how much homework we have, and she was like, “Oh no I haven’t  done the Norwegian or the sociology homework which we have to be finished with on Monday and Tuesday….”  And then she said; “Wanna go to Norwich on Saturday??” (haha good planning Helene!)  And I of course thought “Why not!” Am finished with all the homework for next week, so if I go to Norwich on Saturday and do history all day Sunday I should be fine.. So that was it.. On Saturday at 10 o’clock we were going to Norwich.

Meeting up at the Train station Saturday morning I saw another familiar face, Marte from my class also decided to join us. Which meant we got a group discount! So we only paid £8 for Cambridge-Norwich + return.. Not bad!

So the three of us had a very good time walking around and seeing Norwich that day. It’s a very nice city and even though it’s not very big, we still managed to get lost a couple of times..  Saw Norwich castle, walked by some nice churches  and of course spent some time in the 2 big shopping centers they had there.. The hours went by and suddenly it was time to go home again.. When we returned to the train station the train was just leaving, so instead of running after it, we decided to take the next one. It didn’t go before one hour later, but we had no trouble making the time go by fast, and before we knew it, we were sitting on the train going home. Another wonderful day here in England. Oh how I love this country <3

Thursdays blog

(I wrote this on Thursday, but somehow forgot to post it.. woops.)

Hey’all! Just got back from my driving lesson.. Actually went pretty good today.. It has its ups and downs, but today was obviously a good day for driving, so am happy with that. Might also be that it was actually sunny and good weather outside.. I always, and I mean ALWAYS have lessons when it is dark and 99% of the time it is raining as well! No kidding, it somehow always rains when I’m out driving. Even Andrew, my driving instructor noticed that it’s always raining when we’re out driving..Oh well, guess it just makes me a better driver when it's sunny and good whether as well as being more prepared for when it's raining...

The teachers as school still keep us busy as always. We have a lot of homework and assignments before we have half term and get a week off from school the 13^th of February. Can’t wait!! Gran Canaria, here we come! From we got back here after Christmas until we have half term it has/ it will be just constant homework and tests and assignments. Had a Chemistry test (which I by the way got a grade 6 on!!  I can’t even describe how much it means to get such a good grade when you work so hard in a subject you find really difficult, so I was REALLY happy with that ) We also had a math and English test today.. The English test went really bad for some reason, but the math went pretty good (I think).. Weird.. It usually is the other way around.. We also have to write 2000 words about the history of Tromsø (history) 1400 words about differences in marriage and family in two different cultures (sociology) 2 pages in Norwegian analyzing a short story.  And next week we start another assignment in chemistry + we have to write reports on all the experiments we do every week. And if that wasn’t enough we have an ESOL exam coming up in English just before half term. Really anxious about that.. they divide it into 4: reading, listening, speaking and writing and you have to pass all of them to pass the exam.. So we’ll see how that goes..

But I think I’ve been planning my days quite well, cause I do plenty of homework on the weekdays so I get most of the weekends off so I can travel and see more of England.. I love traveling. Which is definitely  in the Lilly gene. Not many in the Lilly family that doesn’t like to travel and see the world. 

Talking about traveling and seeing the world and Lillys.. My cousin Amanda from Colorado is studying in Barcelona this semester, and she is coming to London the first weekend of February, so I’m gonna go to London and see her for the day on Saturday the 6th . Can’t wait!! Haven’t seen her for like five years now.  

This weekend will probably be pretty quiet without any traveling  unfortunately.. Been going somewhere almost every weekend, so should probably stay at home and write on my history assignment… Am finished with the Norwegian and the sociology one+ the chemistry reports, so not much else to do except history.   OH, and by the way, my dog Miko was 6 years old today! Aww I wish I could be home right now with him.. But I got to talk to him on skype though and wish him a happy birthday so that was good. Haha J I love my dog!