Life at Bellerbys College

Weekend Getaway in Cambridge

Posted by Vivonne @ Bellerbys London

Hello again everyone! How has summer been treating you guys? For me and most of the Bellerbys London students, it has been fun and hectic at the same time.

While most of the students from Bellerbys are on holiday back home in their home countries, WE the unlucky few have to bear with classes for about 1 more month :)

WHEE! I am sooo excited to go back to Penang in August! I can't wait to see all my family and friends again after missing out on the action back home for 3 months now.

This week was not much different from every other week, except that we have new substitute teachers as our permanent teachers have gone off for their well-deserved summer break. I miss Mr. Jan, and your chemistry lessons! :D and there are many, MANY (I am stressing on the 'many' because I really mean it :P) new Embassy students here over the summer to learn English. This shows that Embassy is really famous and clearly GOOD! I literally see HUGE buses every week stopping in front of the college building dropping off new students, young and old (well, mostly young). PLUS, I have new neighbours all around me! I was so wrong to have thought that the summer Term 2 would be more quiet and the school would be almost like a ghost town. HAH!

Anyways, my post today is mainly going to be pictures! YAY! Who doesn't like pictures right?

My classmates from the AWESOME A5A course and I decided to check Cambridge out one weekend as one of them were planning to apply to Cambridge University to take his Economics degree (DREAM BIG ALWAYS!) So, it was just Denise, Chanida, Fesa, Chin and I. We got really cheap coach tickets online! :D *sigh-students are always on a budget* I had a feeling it was going to be a REALLY fun weekend, the bus ride there itself was so much fun. Two hours of laughter? Need I say more? ;)

We were all so excited for the trip so once we reached Cambridge, we went to the appartment we were renting, dropped our bags and set off to explore Cambridge. It's a rather quiet town, a nice change from London :) I love the old rustic-looking buildings! They give me chills.

 

 

 

 

                              Chanida and I in front of a really huge church :)

 

We mostly walked as the town was small and it was the easiest way of getting around. You can find maps everywhere and we found them really useful. :D

                                  

We shopped a little... naturally :P

  And we took LOADS of pictures, thank you Kat, Sorry Chettiar!

I shall let the pictures to the talking for now :)    

                                           

 My rockstars :) From left: Fesa, Chin, Chanida and Denise <3

    

Gosh, that must have been tiring scrolling down :P I hope the pictures gave you guys an idea of our fun weekend. So if any of you out there who were thinking of visiting Cambridge, think no more! GO! :D I had so much fun, as you can see, we all did. Ahh, these are the memories that'll be remembered, no doubt about that.

I'll keep all of you updated to what's going on here in London, I promise ;) Hope you enjoyed the post. Toodles all!

XX vivonne

Vivonne is studying five-term A Levels at Bellerbys College London

1st blog ever :) Hello from London!

Posted by Vivonne @ Bellerbys London

Hello readers! 

    As you all may know I'm new here, to be honest it's my first time blogging :) I have always wanted to start a blog but I never got to doing it. Anyways, my name is Vivonne from MALAYSIA! I come from a small island called Penang, some of you might have heard of it before. It is an amazing place to grow up in. My favourite part of Penang would probably be the warm and sunny weather! OH, and the beaches :D It's like a holiday everyday. SO if you have the chance to visit Malaysia, especially Penang *wink* PLEASE do.

     It was not easy making my decision to study in the UK. It took me many sleepless nights thinking about what I should decide to do after secondary school. I have always wanted to study in the UK ever since i was little. My dad used to tell me alot about London and how it was the GREATEST city in the world, and after staying in London for about two months now, I have to agree with my dad :P GO DAD! 

     I came to London in April when it was early spring. I was SO excited, especially because it was my first time visiting UK! It was a gorgeous day when i arrived, flowers blooming everywhere :) I was lucky to have experience spring this year as it hardly rained (YAY!) and I love the sun! The first week in London was tough as i had to get over jetlag :( My biological clock had gone crazy, somedays I even feel sleepy at 6 in the evening. Plus the dry and cold weather was killing my skin. Fortunately, I am now used to the weather here and I am loving the sunny days, gloomy days- not so much. :D Oh well, I can adapt easily, i think. ;)

      I'm currently taking A Levels and my course started in April. It's a shorter course, 5 terms instead of 6 terms, so this means I have to work extra hard :( I CAN DO THIS! So far classes have been fun and challenging. The teachers at Bellerbys are AWESOME! I really like the fact that there are only a small number of students in class. All of us can focus more AND we talk less :P I want to pursue a career in Medicine so I'm taking Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Math as my 4 subjects. Sciences are my thing ever since high school :D Everyone has a dream school to go to for university and my dream school is

UCL!

I will work my butt off to get into UCL. I'd prefer to stay in London and UCL is located in the city itself ( woohoo!). Plus everyone knows it's one of the top school in the UK. 

    Anyways, I shall not continue to blabber and bore all of you out there. :P Stay tuned for more as I will be talking about COOL places i have been so far in UK in the next post. Let me warn you before hand, there will be pictures. A WHOLE LOT of picture :) 

Toodles for now! 

xx

Vivonne is studying five-term A Levels at Bellerbys College London

Say Hi to Vivonne, New Blogger for Bellerbys London!

We are very pleased to introduce a new student blogger for Bellerbys College London.

Welcome Vivonne Ganesh from Penang, Malaysia!

Vivonne is 18 years old and is studying five-term 
A Levels at Bellerbys London. She hopes to study Medicine or Health Sciences at university and is thinking of applying to UCL and Imperial College London.

Outside of the classroom Vivonne enjoys, "listening to music, watching movies, reading and I LOVE going to the parks in London :D ".

Visit the blog again soon to read her first post about her very busy life studying A Levels at Bellerbys College London.