Today has been a great day! I learnt how to belay properly, though I still have a lot of practice to do, and got some contacts of other people who are pretty into climbing! Some day, it will be possible. The Mountain will be scaled.
Song of the day:
Knights of Cyndonia - Muse
Bread and cheese is easily one of my favourite meals. It's as simple as it gets! And I feel wonderful afterwards. But this got me thinking about if there are any other extremely simple ways to eat, that aren't dreary.
Song of the day:
Tea - Paatos
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I accidentally forgot to take my glasses out of one of my pockets, so now they're broken. A minor tradegy, but they are fixable! I can just do the classic tape trick!
Today marks a month (well, actually 4 weeks) since I moved out of home to begin university, and I've been thinking about this all week. Crucially, that I wanted to write a little recap, reflection, retrospective, re-whatever, of how it's been so far!
To begin, this is not my first time being at university. It is something I pursued 4 years ago for many, many of the wrong reasons, and it ultimately ended up being having a net negative impact on my life! So why go again? Well, I want to go into nuclear, and have wanted to for years, so here I am doing Physics and will be specialising in nuclear in the later years of my tenure here. So far, I'm really enjoying my studies, although that might because I'm doing a bit of a modified programme, since I did not have the required qualifications to go straight into the full thing. Ultimately, I'm fine with, and even welcome, this decision, as studying was not something I ever had to do during my time growing up. The curse of a "good enough" memory and reasoning combined with a lack of actual challenge during school.
That aside, what have I done with my time outside of the classroom? Well, a lot of it has been spent expanding my horizons on climbing (and becoming a member of the Mountaineering Club), reading, listening to music, and even trying my hand at ping pong! So far, I'd say it's been the most eventful month I've had yet. Atop of all that, I have gotten ill TWICE, and had a tooth pulled, so not everything has been peachy.
Today was an interesting one though. I knew of a certain climbing gym here, and finally went to it! During that, I have gone the highest I have yet! 14m, or ~50ft. Which is a very long way for someone to go with a fear of heights! I'm very glad to have come here, as I am doubtful that I'd ever really had the opportunity to try something like this! I'm hoping that during time in this city, I'll be able to do proper belay climbing, either lead or top-rope, and maybe make some friends who I can go explore the great outdoors with, and hopefully do some outdoor climbing! I'll be sure to share pictures if that day ever comes around. And on my way back to my flat after this ordeal, I fed a crow! So the possibility of an outdoors exploration friend may be closer than I thought!
Whilst all of this sounds great and wonderful, I have yet to really make any friends outside of my flatmates, which is not really something I'm all too worried about. One of my problems in the past has been having rather low standards for who I'd consider to be my friends, and I'm hoping to rectify that going forward. That is not to say that those who I have been friends with for a long time are those of low standards, but that I have considered a lot of low class people to be my friends, which has only ever caused hassle! Should I ever meet any well-natured people who are able to help forward Our Cause, I will be sure to update you all!
I hope that this was an enjoyable read, and to add a little extra, I feel like I should try to post some more stuff in future which is a bit more open-ended to discussion or interaction. I feel like a lot of my posts are rather one-sided, reading more as an observation of things than the beginnings of anything fruitful. I hope you all have a good night, and thank you for taking the time to have gotten so far!
Album of the day:
The Mountain - Haken
