I'm sitting at the end of a tree branch hoping that it'll break cos I'm now too scared to let go. Beneath is a trampoline and it will bounce me beyond the acorns that I can't pick, and I will see what is on the other side of the hill. You should've blindfolded me and left me on a clifftop. After sipping the flask of hot chocolate I'd finally make my way down to the watermill where I would rearrange the pebbles in the stream to read 'salt & vinegar'.

Anyways, on the train yesterday I found a map of the British Museum and it has a list of the times of the 'eyeOpener tours': 'free short tours (30-40 minutes each) introducing different areas of the Museum's collection'. These occur daily. I intend to attend at least one each week. Please do let me know if you're interested in coming along with me =] I'm flexible with weekdays

Have you read this article on Bret Easton Ellis? I haven't yet, but I will after I tell you that I enjoy his books very, very much but have yet to read his most famous: American Psycho! Actually, I've only read Rules of Attraction and Less Than Zero so far. Both of these were borrowed from Mr Mitchell who absolutely insisted upon me trying them. (Thank you, sir.) Unfortunately, of all that he's written, the library at Hendon only seems to hold American Psycho, so I'll be giving that a go soon. I was planing on leaving that to last.

We, my sister and I, went to the library yesterday soon after a lunch we ate desperately as soon as we got home from a swim. (It had been years since I last went swimming and I was so out of practice that I couldn't do more than a length without a short rest.) Yusuf was meant to come with us but he's terribly stubborn and just stayed home playing Pokémon Battle Revolutions. Phooey! He didn't even put his swim towel in the laundry.

I'd planned to get out Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code cos I didn't read it when the craze for it was rife, and still hadn't read it yet, but I couldn't find it. If you have a copy I could borrow, please, do let me know. I would be very grateful.

The gums on the left side of my mouth have swollen. ow. are my widom teeth coming through? I've been in discomfort/pain since Saturday but I won't admit that I need to see a dentist. I don't like dentists. I don't understand why anyone would go into dentistry and spend their life poking in people's mouths. It's gross.

(Blogging takes a lot of effort. Especially when you don't want to sound self-centred or whiny. Or my delay in finishing the blog post on my trips to Wildwood, Old Trafford and Liverpool could be down to simple sloth.)

I'd like to share some news with you: I've been accepted by Waseda Uni in Tokyo to study there for a year and I'm very excited! I fly out on September 13th around 9am from Heathrow and arrive at lunchtime the next day. In exactly threee months to this day orientation begins. Three months gives me plenty of time to hunt around for a job to build up funds, improve my Japanese, learn to cook, read the material required by the core modules I expect to have failed and so expect to be requested to resit over the summer..

Hi. I'm in the process of telling you about mine and Steve's trip to Wildwood but the camera and computer aren't co-operating, so I won't publish the post until I can upload more photos to illustrate it. I'll also eventually tell you about my trip home last weekend and Bank Holiday Monday and how I have to go back home again today yet it feels like I just got back here/Canterbury. The hot weather and sharing a single bed with Steve means that I'm awful tired a lot of the time. Hopefully I can convince mummy that I needn't come home every weekend after this since I'll be moving back home in a couple weeks anyway and there's plenty of tidying up to do before then.

Today, Jenn's hosting a picnic for her birthday that was a few weeks back and as a big goodbye-for-the-summer do, so this week I'll be going home late Saturday afternoon instead of the Friday afternoon agreement. I'm going to leave the picnic before anyone else I expect, at around 3, to get home by dinner time. Then, tomorrow, Aakash and I are volunteering to help out at a fair in Camden, though he's not yet told me when we are to meet or where. Then, the day after I will finally rejuvenate my wardrobe with my first ever trip to a Primark. I plan on getting many, many simple (cheap) dresses to decorate from the grand Oxford Street store.