Snow in April in Oxford

Posted by Sam

Snowmen said a hello to me on the first day after I came back from Hong Kong for the Easter holidays.  It was the seventh of April and very late for snow!

The unusual spring weather in Oxford recently has discouraged me from playing football to a great extent.  Once, I played football with my friends and three strangers in the park.  It was lucky that none of us got injured as the grass was so wet.

As a die hard fan of Manchester United, I watched the Europe Champion League game against Barcelona with my room mate.  Despite the busy time at college I have got to face, I have no choice but to watch!

So far, IELTs has been the one major challenge in my life in England.  I took the exam one Saturday in April.  I knew I was not lucky enough at that time.  I was really desperate for a high mark to fulfill the requirement for my university offers.

‘May’ has numerous meanings including the fifth month of the year and expression of possibility.  All of us will have a bank holiday next week.  The students at Bellerbys Oxford will take the college photo and that will be kind of exciting I think.  I know I have got to work much harder.  At the moment it feels like there are too many uncertain factors, the main one being that I don’t know where I am going to study next academic year.

Finally, I no longer need to get fed up with checking UCAS - I got five offers last night.  One is from the University of Warwick.  Here is a quotation from the university website: ’The University of Warwick receives over 10 applications for each place available, so receiving an offer is quite an achievement.  As one of the top ten universities in the UK, we have very high quality applications and only choose the very best.  This makes you special.’  Although I made it, I'm not sure why but I don’t think it is an achievement at all.