I have returned to the homeland, back to beautiful Northern Ireland (yay!). Our flight (as Tal came back with me) was slightly delayed but we landed in Belfast International at about 10:30 last night. I am super pleased to be back home but I shall now take the opportunity to fill you in on what I've got up to over the last couple of weeks.
Term ended for me on the 19th December with a lovely Molecular and Cellular Biology assessment, how fun! But it appeared to have gone rather well as roughly three quarters of the questions asked were on two of the past papers I had already done.
I spent that Friday night in my house with my housemates and another couple of people just chilling and listening to music which was lovely considering I won't be seeing them for four weeks.
We set off on Saturday morning, getting the train from Canterbury to Waterloo where we had a lovely bite to eat and collected Tal's younger sister and then made our way to Poole, where we would be staying for Christmas.
I'll not divulge all details about the holidays as they are personal times spent with family but I had such a wonderful time in Dorset. We went to the pantomime to see Mother Goose at Salisbury Playhouse which was hilarious, and contained all the usual "oh no you didn't" and "he's behind you". I also had the pleasure of being able to have a few lovely walks with the gorgeous Giant Schnauzer Ella along bridleways and through the fields; it was so relaxing being back out in the country again after being in a city for the past three months. An added bonus was going the the Boxing Day hunt meet which was just amazing. I am a huge lover of all dogs and horses so being at the meet just made my day; also allowed me to point out my favourite horses for future reference for whoever was listening!
Due to thick fog last night, we only got back home just before 12 midnight and we decided it would be the ideal time for presents! Tal and I had got mum two little angel tree decorations as when she was over visiting at the start of the month, she had saw them in the Canterbury Cathedral shop and had loved them but they unfortunately only had one in the colour (gold) that she wanted. We were just happened to spot them in the window of the shop in Canterbury and much to my relief, they were both intact when mum opened them up! My dad is an avid and brilliant cook so I got him some hot ketchup which I thought he would really like, though I can't wait to have some! I'm still yet to get my brother his present as it involves him having a car, which he hasn't quite got yet!
Archie, my lhasa apso dog, seemed incredibly pleased to see me, though I was told that I looked much happier to be reunited with him!
The weather here is lovely, it's frosty and rather slippy as we found out when we took Archie for a walk earlier, but it is so wonderful to be back in my own bed and to be back with my family, who I missed dearly.
Tonight I shall also be reunited with my school friends as we're all going out for dinner to our one of our favourite restaurants, the Winebar in Portrush, where we shall be doing our secret Santa, cannot wait to see them all and to get some yummy food too!
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!
Catherine xxx
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