A first class first year!

Yayyyyyyy! I got a first overall for my first year at uni... all sets me in good stead. :) 72.6% average... the maths results were particularly good, all being firsts, with three out of four of them being in the region of 90%... English weighs my results down a little, but it was ok this year, so we'll see what happens next year...

Yayyyy!!

Oooops

I've just realised quite how long it is since I last blogged. Ah well, just presume I was rather busy. ;) (That or was doing nothing and therefore had nothing to blog...)

It is raining outside, and thus good weather for blogging (and ducks, apparently).

Amidst the busy-ness of roughly the last month, I spent last Monday to Thursday with Simon in the wonderful city of Florence (as well as a few hours in Pisa and über-early hours on the Monday in London). Amongst other things, we learnt that Italians are crazy drivers, which doesn't really help when you are walking everywhere. We also visited many a tourist site: the Uffizi, Accadémia (where David lives), the Duomo (which we climbed! All the way to the top! And such a beautiful view of Florence from the top... wow. Also so close to the largest fresco in the world! So cool... Photos are in hard-copy format, thus not being posted on here until my parents buy a scanner, or I go somewhere where there is one), the synagogue, the oldest church in Florence, the Santa Maria Novella church and museum, the leaning tower of Pisa, the airport and the train station! A thing that annoyed me somewhat is the ban on photos from inside so many places.

Rather surprisingly (or at least, I was rather surprised), I didn't eat any pasta while I was in Florence. I'm not sure if this was Simon's influence, as he likes fish so much, or rather that I discovered last year in Venice that pasta is never a very filling meal out there, as it is before the main course. Ooo! I've just remembered, I lied. I ate one piece of penne.

Yayyyy the university staff pay dispute has finally been settled!