04/10/2012

Today I got some tights from New Look. They're the warm, cotton kind, and I love them. 8D I haven't had warm, patterned tights since I was a child haha. 

They might be good for lolita (none of my lolita clothes go with them haha, but I'm sure someone's would).

Close up of pattern.

In other news, university has been good so far. C: In French cinema we're studying horror, so that's cool. On Monday we watched a really old horror film. It wasn't particularly scary (for me, anyway, but other people were freaking out a bit during the screening haha), but entertaining nonetheless. I didn't catch the name, but it was good, so I'll let you know if I find out. 

Also, we have to start organising year abroad (next year) stuff now! I'm really excited about it, but it's kinda scary. If you're studying 3 languages, you have to do one term in two of the countries, and an intensive language course in the 3rd country during the summer holiday at the end of the year. I've decided to go to France first, then Japan, then do the summer course in Italy. Most of the Japanese partner universities are in Tokyo, so I'll probably end up there. 8D In France, we have the option to do a work placement, but I'm probably just gonna go to a university there haha. Paris would be great, but there are limited places, so I probably won't get to go there.

Lately, I've just stopped caring about what's appropriate for the situation and wearing mini horns to class haha:

No one here cares how you dress, though, so it's cool. Unless you're wearing a onesie/kigurumi of some kind. Students seem to love onesies.

Song of the day:

-Finlay

Uni, outfit shot, recommendations

This week has been fun so far! 

Tuesday was the first Rock Society weekly bar social thing of the year. Even though I went a few times last year, I was quite nervous because I'm still socially awkward haha. It actually turned out to be really fun, though. There were a lot of first years there, so loads of people didn't know anyone. Eventually they played Gangnam Style haha, so we just danced to that.

Here is my friend's giant foot (next to mine for comparison):

And here was my outfit for the day:

Today was the first Italian class. I really like the new teacher! He's really funny, and seems to be a good teacher. Last year's teacher was lovely, but wasn't so good haha.

Because there are no classes for anyone on Wednesdays for some reason, the LGBTQ society has coffee afternoons. I was kinda nervous about this one too (especially because I couldn't just drink to make myself more sociable haha), but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Everyone was lovely, and half the people were just as awkward as me haha, so that was nice. Tomorrow they're doing a bar crawl (to gay clubs etc.). I'm really looking forward to it!

On an unrelated note, I wanted to recommend these face masks by Naisture to you:

I got some in America, and I really like them! They make your skin so soft and glowy. C: Furthermore, they only cost like $1 each!

Finally, have you guys seen Kyary's latest video? I didn't like the song much at first, but it's really grown on me!

What do you think of it?

24/09/2012

Today was the first day of class! In the morning I had to go to another timetabling meeting, this time for Italian. I got my first choice of non-language module: translation! I love translating things (I legit just do it for fun sometimes), so I'm really looking forward to it! 

After that I had several hours free, so I went to try and find some tights/warm clothes. As you'll see, I'm terrible at actually buying what I go out for, but yeah, here's what I got:

 Lunchbox from Paperchase, because now I'm not on the meal plan I have to take care of food myself haha

 On sale in New Look. It reminds me of the Onespo tomato print dress. Would have been more useful a couple of months ago when it was actually warm, but I'm sure I can work with it.

 Long tank top from River Island

After having no luck finding tights anywhere else, I wandered into Blue Banana (for those that don't know, it's sort of like Hot Topic, only much cheaper), not really expecting much, but found these for £2 each! The legs are a little short, but it's not a huge problem.

The stars are glittery!

I was actually considering buying these same bat tights online just last night, but didn't because I didn't know the site and it looked a little sketchy haha (and they cost more on there), so I'm super happy to have found these! 

After shopping, I headed back for Japanese class. Like last year, we have two teachers, but one of them has changed now. :< But the new teacher seems nice/funny, so I guess it's not the end of the world. And we have three new people in our class; I was really surprised! There are two French girls doing their year abroad, and one English one, but I'm not quite sure why she's suddenly here haha. 

Finally, you should all go and watch UCHUSENTAI:NOIZ's new PV, because it's goooood:

-Finlay

In Birmingham

I'm all moved into my new house in Birmingham! For the first few days I was the only one here, though, and I didn't even have the internet until yesterday! That was horrible. :c 

Here's my room (but there are posters now):

New friend (help me name it!)

Class hasn't started yet, but I had to be here on Friday for a timetabling meeting, and Wednesday was the only day my dad could drive me up. Apart from that and going to the societies fair (I joined the rock, Japan, goth and LGBTQ societies), which only took about half an hour, I've been super bored haha. 

Taking pictures because I had nothing else to do:

Here's an outfit shot:

-Finlay