It's Been Quite a Long Time....

Dear blog readers, I am sooo sorry that I haven't been posting recently. I don't really know what that's about haha. So I have a lot of catching up to do!! I think the last time I posted was my dad's birthday? So let's begin there!! The Friday after my dad's birthday we had a day off of school because of a teacher in service so one of my friends had a party!! Her older sister is in year 13 so it was meant to be an evening for us to meet each other and things like that. It was really, really fun and quite exciting to go to my first English party :) It was also really nice because I got to meet a bunch of people in the year above!! That afternoon I also met up with some of my friends at a park in Cowley (an area kind of like Barton but closer to City Center). There's this really awesome tree there that looks exactly like the Jack Johnson tree!! (the one to the right) That Sunday, I went to the Unitarian Church in Oxford. It was really interesting but much more traditional than the Unitarian Universalist Church in Ames. I was surprised by how much praying there was, they even did the Lord's Prayer. It was really interesting though. I went back this Sunday as well and the service wasn't really religious at all it was more of an intellectual lecture. I didn't really follow it but I recognised some names from my philosophy class! I've been walking to school lately because my bus pass ran out and I can't really be bothered to buy another one so I've been getting some extra exercise!! Also, I found a great coffee shop called Cafe Bonjour that's actually owned by a Turkish family I think. They do really great Turkish coffee and pain au chocolat, yummy!! Also, the man that runs it really likes me and we talk about Turkey a lot :) Then this weekend was a Nepalise festival (ahhh forget the name now!!) but it was really great and we went to Heather's friends house and she cooked us this amazing Nepalise meal (she's the one that owns the restaurant Yeti). I also got blessed which was amazing, it was such a calming spiritual experience. Then last night I turned in my college applications finally!! I hope it goes well but for now I'm just glad that I've turned it all in. Now its just the waiting game!! Wish me luck!!
Emma xx
ps. I promise I'll write more now haha xx