Back AT LAST! :P With pictures of my holiday to Turkey
Hello PT :p How I have missed you!
I can't exactly remember when I was last on here... testament to how bleedin' long I've been absent I suppose! I will try harder to stick around and come back a bit more regularly in between particularly hectic periods.
So, what has been happening since I was last here? Hmm... well I spent a lot of May running round London trying to find a place to rent for next year, which was far more difficult than I anticipated. The London property market is (I believe the best way to describe it accurately) cutthroat! Properties would sometimes come onto the market as I was on the phone to an estate agent, but an offer would be made within the hour, before any of us had finished lectures for the day. Myself and my flatmates got through many phone bills, fingernails, and stiff drinks, I can tell you. ;)
Thankfully, we eventually managed to find ourselves a beautiful flat not too far from the RVC, with a reasonable rent (reasonable by London standards, that is. Listening to the average rents paid by my old college friends in other parts of the country makes my bank balance weep). Perhaps best of all, the landlady will allow us to keep caged pets! :D Will keep you posted on that one!
Oh, and I took my first year exams, and passed with a first class honours!! I was so overwhelmed, since I found the exams very tough, and was particularly disappointed in myself for making an incomprehensibly stupid mistake in one of the papers (completely wrote about the wrong thing, you cannot believe how many times I metaphorically kicked myself when I realised on the way out of the exam hall!). Despite that all my results came back so much better than I anticipated, and I was particularly happy that I was into the 90% boundary for my project work on microRNAs (which I'm told is pretty hard to do!). I worked with a very helpful and inspiring lecturer, who has invited me back to work in the laboratory with him in my third year. I'm hoping to take him up on that offer.
Anyway, the real purpose of this thread was to share a small selection of photographs from my recent holiday to Turkey with my family. We haven't been away as a group for a few years, so it was nice to have a break together again, especially for me after my first year living away from home. :)
For anyone who has facebook, I have the whole album on my page (photobucket loading times frustrate me, heh heh).
The view from the villa we rented. We had beautiful views of Incekum forest, and the Taurus mountains.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...thebalcony.jpg
Alanya was the largest nearby town, and after two hours of driving up and down Ataturk Blvd, we at last found the beautiful harbour (a bit of advice? Try to learn a competent amount of Turkish if attempting to drive and follow signs in Turkey ;)). Eating at restaurants with this view was a real treat.
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...key2011030.jpg
Oh, a bit of news I forgot, I finally had chance to take and pass my driving test! Better late than never I suppose. Wasn't totally brave enough to drive on the wrong side of the road only days after getting my licence, but nonetheless had to make a point of being in the driver's seat!
http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i2...49-Driving.jpg
More coming...
