I will start by saying that after this day I have over 350 pictures from me and my friends, and it will be a nightmare chosing between them since the area, the weather, the people and the pictures were/are all fabulous!

It was time for another trip with the school, this time to Warwick Castle about 1,5 hours away from Wolverhampton. I was hoping for some nice views of a castle, which itself seemed great since I love visiting castles and experiencing episodes from back in the day, and the castle really met up to my great expectations and more!

  
    

- Some views on and from the Castle and towers-

One of the lovely things was the Peacock Garden, where dussins of peacocks walked around freely and looked stunning. They all kept making their odd sound, but who focus on their poor singing abilities when they look so gorgeous?

  
-Peacocks and the garden-

I actually got slightly tanned after the day, due to the amount of time spent outdoors and the sun. We saw a eagle/owl/big birds show, we visited heaps of rooms designed as they looked when the castle was in royal use, played 'Throw the rat', visited gaols and haunted halls, picknicked and just plainly enjoyed ourselves. The company of my friends did of course boost the day to the fullest, and there was nothing I didn't love about this trip.

  
  


   
-Me and my ridiculously amazing friends-

However the unexpected top of the cherry on top of the cream on top of the gooey chocolate fudge cake was introduced to me when we arrived. This particular Castle had been used to record part of one of my absolute favourite shows, Merlin. I got so hyped up my friend actually prefered to record me and my reaction to things instead of the actual thing itself. So I was browing around in actual Merlin Props, the Merlin tower and, to my great joy, fellow Merlin fans who like the show as I do (have I told you darlings how much I love you?) and just approves of my spasm and fan-ness.

  
-Merlin-

What would a semester in England be without at least one trip to the capital? Well, since I have visited London before back in 2010 I wasn't enitrely sure that I wanted to, but finally I managed to go there to greet some Swedish friends who was here for a while.

It was a very inexpensive trip, since I didn't need to see the touristy things or buy London Souveniers, so I ended up with two posters (Hunger Games, of course) and a t-shirt with the print of Toni Toni Choppa from One piece on. But it was nice being back in the city, and even nicer to meet my friend again!

  
-Picnic in a park - Toy Store - Piccadilly Circus-

As I sit on Birmingham International Airport in the fine sunshine, flipping through the latest issue of Northern Ireland Parenting with a small latte in a regular cup in absence of other reading material I can't help but feeling very content with myself. I have just travelled here with my dearest sister to wave her goodbye after ruffly a week of giggly and silly times, but now the fun was over for this time. I already miss her! 

Now when she's on her way back to Sweden it is time to roll up the sleeves and dig into the pile of work that I have been postponing and procrastinating for some time, so I'll be able to enjoy the rest of my stay in England properly. It have slowly dawned upon me that Wolverhampton isn't as bad as it used to be. I will honestly miss it quite a lot when I leave in the end of May. 

 

Time to be fabulous again! Which of course means time for another Bar Crawl! This time the theme was "Super Heroes", a theme geeks like me can't resist even if you try to fight me off with a pitchfork! For over three weeks mine and Ashley's costumes have been laying in the dark closets, like lions waiting on their prey, ready to strike. And did they strike or what! 

 

Dressed up as the famous Mario Brothers we attacked Wolverhampton with soap bubbles, mustasches and excitement! With us we had Beatrix from Kill Bill, several X-mens, the Power Puff Girls and Herminone Granger - a better team is hard to find! Apparently Mario & Luigi are as famous here as in Sweden, and I can't remember when we got so much attention as we did that night - which is of course enjoyable but also a tad nervewracking...


- lovely, right? -

Ashley and I had this game during the evening, where we posed together with complete strangers and help up our fingers where we had drawn our Mustasches. According to the pictures I've calculated it to at least 32 different persons, out of which 2 were business men and one security guard. You can mildly say it was a utterly awesome night!

    
  
-Some of the mustasches-
(Och så vill jag passa på att hälsa till Farmor där hemma och hoppas att ni har det bra! Tänker på att er resa till Nederländerna var väldigt läglig med tanke på hur många holländare jag har lärt känna här i England!)