As I said in the other entry, I woke up at 10:30am. LOVELY. I finally slept in one day. I started getting ready to go meet up with Whitney and Faye for our adventure to Welwyn Garden City. Man, did i ever move slow. I finished getting ready around 12ish. But I vacuumed my room, cleaned up some stuff, straightened my desk, and made piles for the wash tomorrow. :D
I left around 12:15 to head to the other campus. It was a beautiful morning so I decided to walk. As i was walking by the bus stop the intercampus shuttle came by. I just glared at it. "Damn You Evil Bus" popped in my head. lmao. While walking, the sun was shining through the clouds and hitting the leaves perfectly. I decided a mini photoshoot! it was so much fun. I was listening to Off By One too. I took photographs for about ten minutes of different leaves and the sun hitting. It was just perfect. The best way to enjoy your day just walking around and taking photographs.
Here are some of the shots:
I have more but I didn't edit them. Yeah, it was just beautiful outside today. lovely, lovely.
Okay, back to the story, lmao. I got to the bus stop around 12:40ish. A minute later the bus comes. While getting our tickets for the bus, the bus driver kinda of gets an attitude. He is a grumpy old man. He was pleasant to any of the the passengers. Something happened to this one girl who was trying to get the bus drivers details about something or needed something but I have no idea what she really wanted. Attitude though from the bus driver. He just gave off this horrible vibe. Traveling to Welwyn Garden City was cool. I didn't know which stop to get off of so I kept looking for the name of the street we were supposed to get off on. It only took about twenty minutes or less to get there...so nice!!! :D
We found the street and got off the bus. Just walked for a bit and found the street we were supposed to go on. Walked down there for the art store and it wasn't scary until we reach the Tewin Court 1-20. Yeah, that place was creepy...Whitney said it felt like a concentration camp which it did. It was just erie. We walked all the way down and then turn left to see if Unit 1 was down that way and it was. It was on the nicer side of this werid court thing.
Okay, this art store gets its own paragraph, seriously, I felt like I was back at home. It was the most amazing place ever. They had EVERYTHING YOU POSSIBLY NEED FOR ART! CANVASES, PAINTS, BRUSHES, FABRIC PAINTS, PAPERS, SCARPBOOKING STUFF, AND ALL THIS OTHER STUFF. It was amazing. I found my stuff that i wanted to use for the photo transfer but it cost me about 41 pounds for three little bottles of the stuff to do the transfer. It is worth it. I think they are going to be awesome. :D I am going to transfer the house photograph and some other ones. I am going back to this store for all my needs later this semester and next semester. So nice. :D
After checking out the art store we decided to explore the town centre. Yes, we had to find a bathroom for Whitney first. We went to waiterose i think it was or something like that and she the toilet there. They say TOILET here instead of restroom or bathroom. lmao. It was an awesome store. Completely clean and nice. People were nice looking there and it was not shady like Hatfield. lol. When we finished there we went through the subway to the town centre but we stopped at the garden first. It was really cute and had the toilets there. I had to go to the bathroom and so i went in. BIG MISTAKE. NASTY ASS TOILETS WITH POO MARKS EVERYWHERE AND IT WAS SMELLY. I DIDN'T TOUCH ANYTHING AND LEFT. Whitney made a phone call and while she was talking, i was taking photographs of everything. The trees, the sun through the branches, and some leaves that the sun was hitting. Then Whitney told me that there were mushrooms! I headed over there and started taking photographs of the mushrooms, (they will be posted when I get them done tomorrow or the next day). Halfway through taking photographs, Faye was going to step on them. =( So I was like please don't step on them and she didn't, I was so happy I got more photographs of them. =) They have the cutest and coolest mushrooms growing at random spots.
Oh yeah, I forgot about the art in the subway...
MAN ATTACK! LMAO
Finishing there, we headed up to the town centre! Of course it was completely amazing. HUGE! Lots of shops. Like always, there was an art and craft market there which i had to go to and see!!! ;D I loved it!!!!! People were selling food, cool crafts. I didn't buy anything..i was trying not too but then I went to jewelry booth and thought of Libbi! i was like dude, i have to get her something here. It was amazing jewelry!! So my new mission was trying to find some cash. I went to the ATM and I couldn't get any cash. I was mad and thought it was a sign not to get anything. Then Faye decided to go into their little mall and guess what was at the entrance, Barclays! My bank here!!! So, I got cash out and then we went inside. We were hungry, Whitney and I. Then we went upstair and I finally got to use the restroom. In the restroom, there was a straighter so you can fix your hair before going out into the mall! LMAO! You had to pay a certain amount. I thought that was great. After our walk around the mall, we spotted a candy booth and we got candy!!! A giant snake gummy, cherry coke gummy, crocodiles, and other ones. It was great. I spent 5 pounds on candy. lol.
Our next stop was McD's. It tasted wonderful. It was great. While go into McD's, we say a photography store! After eating our food, we went to the photography store. I found some cool things in there. They also develop 120mm color film in a HOUR! yes, i said A HOUR! For much you think...5.99!!! FIVE POUNDS AND NINETY NINE PENCE. I almost died when she told me that. Then if I wanted prints too it would be 15 pounds for the developing and prints. I was like OMG.I was kinda of freaking out and i think she saw me too. lol. I am definitely going back there with my film now to get prints!!!! I am super excited.
As we started our walk back towards the bus stop, i was thinking about the jewelry lady and I thought she would have left but she didn't! So i got Libbi a gift there! WOO HOO!!! I hope she likes it. It is freaking awesome. :D OMG. the funny part is coming now. while going down in the subway, there was a cleaner guy outside his cleaning machine and we went in front of him because I thought he wasn't going to go down there. Yeah, he did. lmao. Once we reached the end of the one walkway to go to the next one in the subway, he starts coming down, the girls who were walking up ran the other way. lol. I ran to the next little tunnel and then up the stairs. lmao. oh course, Whitney and Faye were laughing...I was scared he was going to get us. lmao.
We waited for the bus about 20 minutes and then we headed to the galleria to finish our errand day. I had to get hiking shoes and a large backpack to take with me to Leeds in two weeks and Whitney needed pedometer to count her steps. So, i spent more money but I got some really cool hiking boots and a nice backpack. :D We stayed there until 6ish then headed back to our rooms.
They went to Karaoke tonight but I decided to stay home. I worked on my artist statement, and cv. Almost done with the rough drafts on those. I totally forgot I am losing one weekend for my Leeds trip and one Saturday for Canterbury trip! :D More shopping for christmas gifts. Christmas is everywhere here now!!! I want some Christmas songs. so please send some my way! lol. I also finished my presentation for Monday. I got one more slide and some more notes even though it was going to be 5 minutes long. :D
Tomorrow, I am just doing my wash and hopefully booking my trip to Amsterdam!!! ;D It would be awesome. :D Then Monday is my presentation then studio working then night shoot at Asda. i am going to the creepy tunnels. I need to do more research on scary places in the area. :D I am weird.
Well, Good night all. I love you all and miss you all terribly.
Love,
Marianna
Trust me. You don't get more creepy than Hatfield at night! I wouldn't take an expensive looking camera in to any of the subways there either.
ReplyDeleteBut you're right. WGC ROCKS!!