Snowy Belgium

My friend Victoria and I decided to liven up our lives and go to Belgium for the weekend. And since I'm pretty broke we decided to couch surf while we were there. On Saturday we flew into Charleroi-Sud (just outside of Brussels) and our couch surfing host picked us up to take us to a nearby photography museum. 

What Dani has learned from living in residence this week (the boring bits)

Today's been a stay-in-my-room-all-day-and-eat-sweets sort of day. Something about not having a weekend to recharge has made me suddenly feel devoid of energy. But on the flip side, since I was feeling down I decided to go shopping and coupled with the fact that I have no money and no food... I did my first online grocery shop!

The February Blues

Leeds is not cooperating with my mental mind messages to start spring already, so while there are some snow drops around (I'll take photos later) it's been pretty darn cold. So I've decided to liven up my flat by making myself a bird feeder. Yep. I'm cool.

Happy half-price-chocolate-day!!

Yesterday I hosted my first Pathetic Singles Girls Night for Valentines. Not that I think it's pathetic to be single or that Valentines is so depressing without a significant other that you need to eat your sorrows away. Really. It's just that non-couples in the UK don't do much besides go out to bars on V-day. Who wants that? The pictures were taken at the beginning of the night so it looks small but seriously. My room got packed. 

Gong Hey Fat Choy!!

Happy New Year! I had the pleasure of going to Manchester for Chinese New Year today. Chynna Blue (my biology buddy) and I went to celebrate and eat our weight in Chinese. We wandered through the carnival, lots of trinkets and shooting games. Then we gorged on barbecue pork buns, asian juice boxes and snacks. All very yummy but slightly dampened by the rain/sleet. I would like to be more witty but I'm still cold, wet and tired. So here's some photos.

Thankful Mondays

Because Mondays suck and I had to work on a presentation Saturday and Sunday night, here's a few things that I'm grateful for.

Spring Break

I don't know how up to date y'all are on the British university schedule. Or maybe more specifically Leeds Uni. I have a month long spring break. A month. From the middle of March to the middle of April. And I have no clue if I'm supposed to use that entire month to study for my exams that happen a few weeks later or if I really am expected to relax. I'm going with the second option.

Liverpool Sunday

Wanna know what I've been craving? Asian food. They have amazing Indian cuisine here but Japanese, Chinese and even Vietnamese is lacking. It's expensive and usually not very good. So you can imagine how excited I was to hear that Liverpool has the oldest Chinatown in Europe. SUPER DUPER.