One of those days

Hey folks!

After finally having submitted all my assessed work to the department I can finally breathe again. Which means I'm all up for the fun stuff in life! 

First of all I'm going to show you my look from the Placebo live in Leeds I went to this Monday with one of my flatmates. It was good fun, I'd definitely see them again someday if I get the chance!

 There we go! I went for a really striking eye make-up, but apart from that I kept everything relatively simple and natural. My flatmate told me I had 'vampire eyes', so I guess the look was successful. I just love the craziness that is those super-full fake eyelashes from Eyelure. I need to get another pair sometime soon! If there's anything I adore (besides my babe and fencing, mind you), then it's looking absolutely otherworldly... 

 The photo of this delicious treat is from today's outing with three of my flatmates. We wanted to have a proper girls' day out before each one of us is going home at the end of the week, so we headed to a famous café in town and stuffed our faces with cakes and other sweets.

 Also, the tea was absolutely divine! I guess you can never go wrong with rose petal tea anyway, though. I might go back someday soon and buy some tea leaves so I can re-create this goodness back at home in Germany. 

We spent the day chatting away, shopping and braving the cold weather in fancy attire.  I dare say we were the most beautiful girls out in town, everyone put so much effort into their looks ( I looked like a potato as always, but I woke up too late this morning so I didn't have time to get ready properly).

And the not-so-glamorous yet tasty end of the day: Pizza! We actually wanted to have dinner with everyone of our other flatmates, but unfortunately some of them were out, so it was only us four plus R., one of our guy flatmates. We chattered about random things, as such as history, university stuff, politics and genealogy. Turns out there's quite a few former aristocrats in our flat, including me. Yay! 

Well I guess that's it- see you again soon.   

Random: Fencing problems

This is actually cross-posted from my Tumblr, but I found it quite funny, so I decided to share it with you. These are some of the 'problems' I've come across during my 5 months of fencing foil. Of course, those are not real problems, but only funny tidbits of things that happened to me during training. Enjoy them with a grain of salt and lots of humour: 

- being afraid of breaking your blade

- finally making the perfect plan and then getting fucked over by your opponent

- freaking out even if you know you shouldn't (Why am I running away again? Okay, okay, I got this... OMG holy shit! Nevermind, let's just escape...!) 

- not flinching even if someone comes lunging at you (Why am I so confident in my parries but not in actually hitting them?)

- opponent and you both missing target about ten times until they finally score

- this sentence: "Oh, I didn't realise you were left-handed..." #thankyouverymuchmotherfucker 

- people having trouble shaking your hand after a fight (Jeez, just give me your left hand while I give you my right hand- this is chuffin' easy: NOT THE HAND WITH THE GLOVE! )

- being sure you hit them but the light didn't go off

- involuntarily doing a split and then not being able to walk properly for days (Stairs, I fucking hate you...)

- having bruises all over your body and people wondering how the hell you got them

I guess that's all...