Frape: [verb]- to change an element of someone's Facebook (esp. status) to something silly and/or embarassing.

It's such a clever amalgamation of the words "Facebook" and "rape" plus it sounds a lot less harsh then the two words seperately, "Facebook rape".  I've only ever heard all these smart English kids using this word, never any North Americans. This is one I definitely plan on bringing back with me to Canada.

Tomorrow I'm flying to Dublin for St. Patrick's day.  I really can't believe that this day has arrived.  Last year on St. Patrick's day, to get through the pain of not being able to go out due to an essay that I had to write, I told myself that I would be able to go to Dublin next year.  A year later, it's actually happening.  I'm going to celebrate St. Patrick's day in his native land PLUS go to Ireland which is exciting by itself.  I don't think it has quite hit me yet what I'm about to experience, probably because there is some school work that needs to be completed which is blocking my view of St. Patrick's day.   

I'm bringing my computer with me so if I get a sober spare moment, I will post some pictures for your viewing pleasure.  If that "spare" moment doesn't arrive, have a great week and a happy St. Patrick's day!

Leeds at Night

I had been meaning to take a picture of these two buildings at night time for a while because they always look so beautiful.  I didn't get around to it until Friday, February 25 but I'm glad I finally did!  Annnd I'm just getting around to posting them now, almost a month later.  Sometimes, I'm just lazy.

Town Hall

Leeds University Campus - The Parkinson Building

I'm Running out of British Words

I don't know if its because I've become accustomed to them or if there really aren't that many extremely different words that the English use.  I think it's more likely to be option A.  Any suggestions?

Epernay: [noun]- a champagne bar in Leeds

On Wednesday February 23rd the Wine Society had a champagne/sparkling wine night at Epernay.  We had 5 samples of champagne (Bollinger, Moet and Chandon, Taittinger, Veuve Clicquot and Sainsbury's Blanc De Noirs) and 5 samples of sparkling wines (Roche Lacour, Prosecco Ca' Rosa, Deutz Cuvee Brut NV, Lindauer Brut NV and M&S Prosecco).  One of the many intelligent things that the Leeds University Union organizes is Give It A Go, or GIAG, events with a lot of the Union's societies which allows people to try out the society with out fully committing to the society and paying the joining fee.  This champagne night was one of those GIAG events so there were about 75 people at the event.  Needless to say, it was a fantastic night.

Epernay before it was filled with 70 champagne drunk students

They had champagne bottle candle holders all around the room, it looked beautiful!  I want to try to make one myself.

 

Pictures gratefully stolen from Andy.  Thank you! 

York: [noun]- a walled city, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.

This past weekend I had a lovely trip to the town of York with Aude, Zoe and Oliver Malone, the extended family of my family friends.  York is a beautiful town with an amazing Cathedral, York Minster.  We went to the Cathedral, did some shopping and had lunch at a beautiful tea room.  The three Malone's mentioned above as well as Dom took me in for the weekend which I greatly appreciate.  We had a very British weekend including fish and chips on Saturday night and a Sunday roast on (you guessed it) Sunday.  Thank you to the Malones, as usual it was wonderful seeing you all!

York Minster

Oliver, Me and Aude outside York Minster

Zoe, Aude and Myself in a pretty park with some pretty ruins

Oliver, Me and Zoe at the tea room

I thought I would take this oportunity to brag a bit about my cooking skills.  I made that spaghetti alla carbonara.  I know what you're thinking "There is NO WAY she made that. That's for sure from a restaurant" but if you pay close attention to the photo you will see that I'm eating out of a frying pan and most restaurants tend to serve food on a plate.  I may have been too lazy to unnecessarily get a plate dirty but that doesn't mean my meal wasn't supa dupa delish.

Fringe: [noun]- bangs

It never fails that when referring to the front bits of hair on someones head I always say bangs and then instantly regret it.  It is a guarantee that I will be corrected by my lovely British friends if I say "bangs" instead of "fringe."

The week of the fourteenth was a very uneventful week because I had a pretty bad cold.  There was one point where I didn't go outside for about 72 hours.  The only interesting thing I could have written that week is a synopsis of the entire first season of Community (if you aren't watching this show, start now).  In other words, sorry for the two week absence!

Now for a video of a girl with no fringe.  Ever since the BRIT awards I've watched this video an unhealthy amount of times.  Enjoy!

Masa's Retrospective

Yoshi, Rita and Gabi, you all did a wonderful job of putting this together.  It was a beautiful retrospective.