Ain't no rhyme or reason

Signed up for classes this morning! I have one whole class that I was able to get on my schedule without problems. Lets hope we graduate by the time I'm 50.

Me and Luke finishing up our last year. Go class of 2045!!!

That picture kind of even looks like Luke! I'm proud I found it.

 Its another beautiful day here in Leeds! I would have loved to have woken up earlier but my alarm didn't go off so we didn't get to go for our morning run. Now I'm holed up in the room finishing up my paper. I know I've been working on it for days, but I'm a slow writer and its ALMOST DONE!

Who needs sunlight when you have Louis Vuitton?

There are a lot of slightly different brand names here and Luke and I have no idea why- 'Bounty' is 'Plenty', 'Ziplock' is 'kwikzip.' Apparently J's not a popular letter around here. TkMaxx is where its at.

T.K Maxx... really? REALLY?

Tonight we're going to be packing for Edinburgh and eating all the food that will go bad in the next three days if we leave it. Yummy celery, pizza sauce, milk and curry creations, here we come! Yum. We'll be back on Monday and have plenty of pictures I hope!

 PS- I just spotted a bud on a tree. Must post a picture of this rarity later!

Its always sunny in Leeds (not quite...)

Woodhouse Moore on the way to Campus

Spring has arrived and the weather is behaving appropriately! After we went to Red Hot yesterday we went for a walk down through the city center and along the canal. Apparently there is student housing down there... How did we miss out on that?? The sun was shining and it was in the mid 50's so it felt awesome to be outside! I almost forgot about the misery that is my paper, it was that amazing.

Luke's 98th plate at Red Hot

Arcade:-) So pretty and soooo expensive

A picture of the canal bridge for Jim, cause he likes these things ;-)

Just flirting with the sculptures. That's what real artists do.

 Red Hot was pretty awesome! The place looked incredible and there was so much variety. The desserts were the best part though! Yummy.

Today it was still sunny my early class wasn't nearly as hard to get up for. I got down to the City Art Gallery around 9 am and my teacher let us out early to enjoy the weather. I used the time to nab some books on my paper subject at the library and read in the sun before Luke's class let out. The walk to and from school is so nice when its almost 60! We were actually warm enough to try the smoothie place we had found a bit ago.

Charcoal for Gallery Class

Shakey Jake's!

We got kale at the store yesterday and Luke was highly skeptical. We decided to give it a try tonight with mushrooms, garlic and red onions. It was actually really really good! I think it might be up there with broccoli...

Tonight consisted mainly of homework. Our German portfolios are due tomorrow morning so we're scrambling to get them presentable. They look pretty good now. Mine's purple :-)

Studying disaster area

Bed time.

Writing Papers, Lost and.... Curry. What else??

We have vowed to do better about posting! My sister does an inspiring job posting on Her Blog ! Following suit we're turning over a new leaf and posting more often. Unfortunately for you, today was a pretty uneventful day, but its been nice to not have had any place we had to be for a few days! I'm still working on my paper which is due next Monday. I'm racing to get it done because I'm a terribly slow writer and we're going to be gone Friday and all weekend (Edinburgh!) Luke's been working on German and keeping up with his soccer scores. He went down to the pub today to watch the second half of the Chelsea vs Man City game and came back all smiles. Apparently Chelsea is doing well or something.

Red Hot World Buffet

Tomorrow for lunch Luke and I are planning on taking a break from homework and going to a restaurant downtown called Red Hot.They are a buffet style place, which we usually don't go for but this one is supposed to have high quality food. They have a "World" theme and have Thai, Indian, Mexican, Chinese, Cajun, Japanese, and Italian.  It sounds pretty amazing. Luke already prepping for the curry.

In other news- We finished LOST. We began watching it about two Christmases ago and we just now mustered up the stamina to finish the last season.... we are... at a loss. Its like finishing a really good book, knowing even if you read it again it won't be the same. Now I guess we'll have to resort to Star Trek again.

That's about all I know for now. I'm going to go to bed and try to start getting up before 11!

What We've Been Doing..... Other Than Not Posting

We haven't had the chance to travel much the past week or so. Easter break is just around the corner and things are starting to get close to their due dates. I've got a 3,000 word paper and Luke and I both have a lot of German homework to get done. We're having more fun with it this time though, thankfully!
We did have time to discovered a love for curry this past week.... and then Sainsbury's just happened to have a super sale on their pre-made curry. 4 main meals and 2 sides for 10 pounds! This means we reek of tikka masala and garlic naan bread. It is delicious stuff.
Tomorrow might be pretty so perhaps we'll try some sort of hiking or something. Next weekend is Edinburgh! We're leaving on Friday night for a 6.5 hour bus ride to the city and we get to stay for 2 nights. I'm really excited because its supposed to be absolutely beautiful there. The castle looks amazing from what I've checked out on Google.

I've been thinking a lot about how great studying abroad actually is. It's thrown me for a loop quite a few times, but it's also made me realize how small the world actually is. I love all of the material I'm able to gather for paintings because of all of the new places I'm seeing. Hopefully this will aid me in completing my senior project ON TIME. It's going to be so fun going home again, but while I'm here I'm really loving it. School is pretty much exactly the same everywhere but walking past a moor everyday to get there is a pretty cool change.