Goodbye Autumn
Snapshots from Clumber Park

I don't know why all my posts are in retrospect.

I think Autumn is my favourite season. It makes me love going outdoors; the amazing fall colours never fail to elicit a sigh and a "it's so beautiful" from me. My favourite moments this semester were all last season. Kicking through a pile of crisp, freshly fallen leaves, lying on the soft hay, looking for splotches of red and yellow amisdt the fleeting green. And most of all, walking/biking through the canopy of towering multi-coloured trees by the lakeside in my school. The view and experience is simply breathtaking. "I feel like I'm in a postcard!" :)

Now that it's winter, I dislike going out. Cold, rainy, miserable weather. It's much colder this year; last year we had a warm winter. It snowed quite heavily last Sunday night when we went to watch "Elizabeth: The golden age". Very good show. I like Cate Blanchett lots.

This semester has whizzed by. Will things ever slow down? It's tutorial after tutorial, readings after readings, late nights after late nights and the ever looming thought of the coursework deadlines and exam dates in the back of my mind, tacked in full view onto my noticeboard. I didn't even feel like celebrating my birthday. Why was last year so different? Cos our grades weren't counted. This year counts 50% towards our final law degree.

I have to finish preparing for my EU law tutorial soon.

On the bright side, I'm going to spend Christmas with Grace Tan! Who will be flying to London from Kenya! She's actually studying in New York though. I should be honoured that someone whom I haven't seen in 3 years will be traversing continents to spend Christmas with me. :) I'm looking forward to seeing an old friend (best friend in fact), whom I know very well, am comfortable with and who shares the same outlook and values as I do. This semester has been rather lonely at times. Don't really have any close, like-minded friends with all the Sherwood group back in their respective countries and the everyone else like Jen, Aidan and Hannah all so busy. Even for myself, I don't really have the time to socialise and make new friends. Hence, thank you Lord for Grace! God has also provided in the form of Cat Fairbrother. I signed up for this 1-to-1 bible study program in my church and she's the one I was paired up with. She's 23, married and living in Beeston, 5 minutes away from me. She's really nice and someone I can relate to; sensitive, soft-spoken and not intimidating. Will be meeting her every Wednesday to study Ephesians together.

And a shoutout to Cheh, I just received your package!!! It arrived a day early. :) I love the jewellery set, the pearls are so pretty! Will be wearing it tomorrow. Thank you so much! Feel so loved from home.