Posted by Linh
Nihao (Chinese) / Ahoj (Czech) everybody! How are you?
Thanks for your comments in my last blog, now I know two more ways to say hello in Chinese and Czech. Isn’t that great to study among many international students?
It has been such a long time since my lazy mind has had some brainstorm and enthusiasms to write another blog. Fortunately, as many interesting events have happened, I don’t have to spend much time for thinking what I should write.
First of all, did you guys have a good half term? (Oh well sorry for who don’t have that lucky chance-having 5 days off and do whatever just God knows) For me, I enjoyed it so much that I even have planned fully for the next holiday after this term ending. And what did I do during those wonderful, shiny and lovely days? I went to London to … know the feeling of getting lost again, again and again and suddenly “wooooo, I have been in this place 10 minutes ago”. (Sometimes you need to do some crazy stuff to know that you are normal in other normal days, you know, lol). Anyway, I finally managed to visit Big Ben and Buckingham Palace which is totally awesome.
After enjoying the first day in London, I went to Nottingham to see my friends. Well this trip is a little bit more boring as I had a tour guide, who was my friend, so I could not get lost anymore (I don’t know about you but not getting lost in your first visit is actually an annoying feeling for me). Except that pity tiny problem, I found Nottingham quite exciting too (but can not as good as Oxford and London, dude, heh I think I fall in love with these places).
The rest of the holidays, I enjoyed myself in an ocean of comedy, thriller and also documentary films. And guess what, I believe this fact possibly surprise most of you guys: Five billion years more, the sun will run short of hydrogen. Thus it will start to expand from a diameter of 1.4 million km to 200 times more than that size. As a result, the nearest planets will vaporize, such as Mercury, Venus, and Earth. Then the convulsion begins. After that, only Mars will survive in lonely orbit. Our sun will expire as a dead black dwarf.
So if you are interested in that, could you give me your opinion or may be extra information about this unavoidable problem? Thanks in advance!!
Secondly, thanks to the homework Susannah (our English teacher) gave us about note-taking during half term, I had to choose any reading and listening to take notes, so for listening I chose about the Sun (that’s why I know about that fact above :D), and for reading, I chose “Facts you do not know about Charles Darwin” as 12th February was the 200th anniversary of his birthday and also the 150 years of his famous book “On the origin of Species”.
I have found that Darwin had been known as a crazy insects collector. Once day when he got two special beetles on each hand, he saw a new one. In order to catch the new kind, he put one beetle in his mouth. Unfortunately, the one he put in his mouth was poisonous so he got his tongue burnt and had to split out (lol). Therefore, he lost two kinds of beetles – the one in his mouth and the other he was unable to catch.
Another fascinating fact is Darwin was born in the same day as Lincoln. Although they never met each other, they had many in common, such as they both lost mother in early childhood, wrestled with religious doubt etc.
Thirdly, I have decided to be a bit more active in my boring social life so I went to the first meeting of Economic club. I have met some new students from different courses in our school, some from Foundation like me and some from AS Level. After a warm welcome and introduction, we watched a film together called Counterfeiter, which is pretty good. What is the content? Oh, watch it yourself, curious people.
And finally, a memorable event happened last Thursday. All the Foundation students have an unbelievable chance to go to Bellerbys in Cambridge. We met different people representing different universities there. It was such a great opportunity for us to get information about which universities we want to go, the information of the course we want to study, tuition fees, accommodation, scholarship etc. I mean everything we need to know about our next 3 or 4 years in England. That was the most valuable trip I have ever participated in as it did not provide only knowledge among different universities but also memories among close classmates and new friends from other classes.
The last thing I want to say in this blog is a little bit for my own feeling: It seems like time flying when I think about 17 years of my life have passed, two months I have joined this course, three weeks I have left until exams, three days more for some small tests in class. But it seems like time frozen when I think about two weeks more I can meet a good friend from Vietnam, four weeks more for a trip to Germany to meet my uncle, my cousin and my older brother, six months more for a long flight back to Vietnam to breath the air which was so familiar just two months ago; to see somebody standing, waiting, and welcoming me with a hug although how naughty I used to be or whichever kind of person I will be; to know a place or a part I belong to, a precious place which give me the most peaceful feeling I could ever have. (Lol, just having a bit emotion today so wish that ya guys don’t feel annoying :D)
Have a good week with full of enthusiasms my dear friends!!!
