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Last time I wrote it was Christmas '12! So there is too much to say! I finished my finals and we finally got our Conference Rings for 2012
Updating my film watching list- -Million Dollar Baby -Stigmata -My Sisters Keeper -The Hobbit -Les Miserables -Cool Runnings -Skyfall -How to Train a Dragon -Tangled -Batman Begins -Cinema Paridisio -Ted -Identity Thief -Life is Beautiful My Sisters Keeper was amazingggg! "Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable
of when we least expect it".
And was definitely excited to watch The Hobbit, I missed it so much!
One of the funniest videos on Youtube, I have to share it!
Ya gay, ya gay! lol!
And my favourite song from Les Miserables- Do You Hear The People Sing
Back home to the usual christmas: See nanna, brewers fayre, eyebrows, shopping, poppy love haha, hair cut! Watched Cool Runnings on the TV at xmas! And went to see Skyfall with Dad at the Cinema!
Not forgetting Watching French and Saunders!
One of the funniest things ever!
Went to Chimichangas with the girlies for a reunion! We've known each other for over 10 years now!
Then finally back to Tulsa...
Learnt how to play cups!
And it was Bonnie's Birthday...on a Party Bus! Was awesome!
Bonnie showed us this: hahahaha!
Tulsa season was pretty fun, having some ups and downs but our group of girls is always awesome!
Went to watch Muse live in Concert with Isa and Bonnie....soooo amazing!
And we jumped on a plane to San Fransisco for Spring Break and matches!
Having many a problems with the bathroom, mucho wraps!!!
But we got the win 4-3 :))))
Go to watch Imagine Dragons at TU Reynolds Centre...pretty damn awesome
It was Isa's 21st birthday :))))
Hit myself with a med ball and cut my lip...such a genius!
Me and my chica playing some t-ball against Notre Dame! Where she clinched it 4-3 :))))
Then the parentals come to visit!
Another epic video must watch!
How animals eat their food!
Went on a helicopter around Downtown Tulsa with Cassie and Sam :) so much fun!
Won Senior Day match against Memphis and was soooo happy!
But then went away for Conference to Houston, and was so disappointed with 2nd place :((((
And then lost 1st round team NCAAs, was really suckish!
Was banquet time for all the tennis chicas!!
And here is me and little baby chica!! haha!
For the banquet some of the tennis team made a parody...we made a Harry Potter parody!
And this is the end of year video! Tulsa All Sports Video Highlights!
Bonnie graduated :) but :( she moved out! Baby Isa moved in instead :))) Me and Isa went to indivudual NCAAs and I made the R16 in singles and we made R16 in doubles. So sad we didnt make All-Americans but was pretty fun!
We finally went back for summer school, less tennis but insane amounts of work. Me doing 6 hours- Writing for the Professions and Human Anatomy!
Too many papers and exams and too many presentations!
We went to Tulsa Pride Parade 2013 :)
SO much fun!
We got our hair cut :)))
And went home for Summer! :( so sad!
We finished the year with a team ranking of #29
My singles was #22, and Isa and I's doubles was #14
Not a bad year!! :)
Now is summer and soooooo excited to go back to TU!
I am back and its now exactly 2 weeks until I go home for christmas!
Last time I wrote it was Thanksgiving and I had been having a pretty chilled week. But now that has all changed and its time for Finals.
Since Thanksgiving I have been so busy with school work and christmas shopping! But I did squeeze in some time to mess around and do some zombie makeup!
Aka I was really bored!
The week back to classess after thanksgiving, I had a Statistics exam and a Chemistry Exam. I have now received 1 final grade back and I am guessing 2 others. So far I am on 2A's and 1B.
Then it was Maria's Birthday and so I went to celebrate that although I had an exam the next day so I couldnt stay long.
Me and Bonnie put up xmas lights in our apartment and played xmas music to make us feel more festive! I was awesome!
We also looked after Nala for a couple of days! She is so cute and I love to play with her...although the night before an exam is not the best time to play with a cat!
Me, Bonnie and Maddie all went out to see Breaking Dawn Part 2. Bonnie hadnt seen it yet so we decided to make our 2nd trip! And yes it was just as good! The we went out to The Max which is a bar which is pretty chilled and where we had a go at a few arcade games! Some were totally vintage it was awesome!
It was time for the Football conference championship game vs UCF! Tulsa hasnt won Football conference since 2005! I Seriously had never been so excited in my life! I stayed the whole game with Bonnie! Final score was 33-27 to Tulsa!
Most amazing game ever athough very frustrating at times!
Me and Bonnie in the Suites at the game!
TU vs UCF Highlights
My video of the final touchdown!!! I get to be on the field!
That evening, me and Isaura went to watch the Tulsa Symphony at the Tulsa Performing Arts Centre (PAC). It was absolutely incredible
I couldnt find a video of the one in Tulsa but this one is very similar!
It was the first time I had seen the film and it was amazing to see it with live music. My flute professor is the Principle flute player of the Tulsa Symphony and so it was incredible to hear him play.
Me and Isaura then went to the Centre of The Universe right outside the PAC.
It makes echos every time you talk its so wierd!
Right now the tennis team are not practicing officially and exams are taking up most of our time!
I have three more exams this week! I am hoping they are going to go well!
Not long til xmas now! Just 3 weeks and 2 weeks til home :-)
As regionals drew closer, we also hosted the Mens All American and a Junior ITF, which meant the regular tradition of early morning practice! 6ams Oh the joys!
I helped out at the football games for the Marketing team which was pretty cool. I was able to get my own access pass while my job was to hand out free things to people coming through the gates and award prizes! TU Football have been doing really well this year!
The Marketing team play a game where they guess the total score and the closest person wins. Me and Bonny have drawn twice! I think we are just naturally talented at guessing haha!
Regionals had finally arrived and it was time for qualifying! We had three of our freshies qualifying this year; Carol, Renata and Belen. Unfortunately only Carol qualified making it so that we had 6 of our team in the main draw! Ready to dominate!
It was a great start to the week as all 6 of us won our first round matches. Making it to the round of 16 in singles was me and Isaura and we only made 2 pairs of doubles through to Round 16 on day 1.
Bonny, Me, Michelle and Isaura behind the outside courts watching Saana and Maria in their 2nd round matches.
It was a really good week for me and Isaura as we won the Central Regional Doubles Title!
and I was the runner up in the singles!
We were so pumped before our match and we dedicated our win to the song Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls as we were listening to it at breakfast before we went on court!
It couldnt have been a better week! We renamed the day Flag Day which is of course 22nd October 2012!
We waited for the flag for a couple of weeks and it finally arrived!
By winning this title we were entered into Nationals held in Flushing Meadows, New York!
NEW YORK, NEW YORK!
We were so excited for weeks!
But before we were off to New York, we had Halloween to celebrate! This year was pretty awesome!
Me and Bonnie dressed as Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White!
We also decided to celebrate halloween twice! To give our freshman and coaches a little surprise to show what we are all about! We are the best team ever!
Carefully planned...we turned up to practice like this!
Loving it, the coaches took some pics! I think I should have this one on my wall!
After Halloween, we had a new recruit come to Tulsa. It was a girl called Laura from England. It was so nice to hear another British accent just to make sure I hadnt gone completely insane! We went to P.F.Changs and it was absolutely incredible!
It was time for enrollment all over again! Already sorting things out for the Spring semester when we havent even finished this one! It is crazy!
It was time for the rest of the girls to leave for Memphis! So it was just me and Isaura on our own! This meant that we had 4 to 5 days of practice all to ourself and incredibily it went pretty good! This was our bonding time!
We decided to show the coaches how hard we have been working and to also make them laugh! With our joke picture!
It got to the point where we started having catchphrases and quotes! This one we loved!
Our new quotes were "Massive", "Epic", "Domination" etc We were quite the team!
Also we also had the same style lol! Not my fault! We just randomly decided to wear the same outfit!
Nationals were here and we were off at 5.30am!
Determined to win! We went to the banquet the first evening! I'm waiting to find a picture of it but I cant yet.
We got a bye our first round as we decided that they knew we were the best haha!
Our first match up was against USC! We won 8-4! And even then we could have played so much better!
We went to Times Square for dinner that evening! It was so much fun and we went to the most amazing italian!
Unfortunately then next day we lost 8-6 to Virginia! We were so gutted and disappointed as we were robbed from a match that could have been ours! The Virginia team was good though and made it to the finals!
After a great semester of tennis, me and Isaura cant wait to see what our doubles ranking will be!
As Isaura says, she is not leaving until the team is number 1! hahaha! Sweet 16 first hey girls!
While we were in New York, we watched Megamind which was an absolutely hilarious film!
"Oooh, I'm shaking in my custom baby seal leather boots!"- Megamind
I have wanted to see this film for ages but never did! It is a must see!
As we had so much time together I think we went a little wacky.
We also got crazt about Beavis and Butthead, especially the episode "I am the Great Cornholio"
Seriously, you have to put yourself in a funny mindset and this can be absolutely hilarious for no reason at all!
Since New York, there has not been much going on apart from classes and practice. Although wanting a puppy and obsessing over vanilla greek yoghurt have been the most fulfilling parts of my day!
We went to go watch Breaking Dawn Part 2 and I absolutely loved it! As usual!
Although at the end I was going to snap but then realised it was a twist! If they had seriously done that to the characters that would have been awful! I like it when they stick pretty close to the books and they did that apart from that, which actually made it 10x better!
A great ending to a great series!
It is now 4 weeks to go until I go home for christmas! I am now on thankgiving break and it is thanksgiving day today! This week has pretty much consisted of getting back on track with Gossip Girl and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
I have also been extra good and tidied the whole apartment!
Its been an amazing semester so far and now all that is left is finals before christmas! So heres hoping for some good grades and a white christmas!
I leave you with this song which is amazing and should be listened to repeatedly :-)
Wow...how long has it been! It feels like a decade since I last wrote and so many things have happened!
Its now nearing the end of November which means its Thanksgiving break, giving me plenty of time off to write this blog! Unlike last Fall, this fall has gone exceptionally fast! Its been an epic semester!
Starting from the end of summer; when I turned 21, and returning from mine and my best friends birthday holiday in Rhodes, Greece. Then having a great weekend at County Cup.
I left my last blog at 3 weeks before returning to Tulsa for the Fall semester, so you can tell how busy it has been for me the past 4 months.
I finished off the summer with a trip to Clumber park with my Dad. We hadn't spent much time together and so we thought it might be great to go on our bikes and have a day out!
On my return back to the US, I met up with my teammate Michelle, and we luckily sat next to each other on both flights, which was lifesaving and so much fun! Even though we got delayed and missed out connection, the in flight movies saved us! We watched The Lucky One, and A Thousand Words.
and
As per tradition, well for now, I arrive the day before, just in time for classes the next day! But before that, I met our four new tennis freshman; Renata (Slovakia), Saana (Finland), Carol (India/Spain) and Belen (Argentina). It seems like we are always going to have an international team, gotta love it!
From Left: Me, and freshies; Belen, Renata, Carol and Saana.
This semester brought new news!! I now had a new roommate, called Bonnie! Who is awesome and I couldn't wait to get to know her!
So, back to work and classes begin. This semester I started taking 16 hours; Biology, Chemistry and Lab, Economics, Anthropology, Statistics and Flute. Back to class also means back on the court for a great semester of tennis!
Fall semester in tennis is our off-season, but this doesn't mean we have any less than usual. It is time for individual tournaments to improve your ranking etc. This semester we were played in Missouri, Arkansas, Tulsa, New York and Memphis.
As its the fall season, we go back over to the main gym to do weights and running with the fitness coaches instead of the tennis coaches! And this became the new era of Army Style!! Not joking!
If you can imagine the craziest army workouts and whistle blowing/hang clapping then you are thinking right! Although it was fun and something different for a change, it was mega hard considering the summer weather!
But our first break came soon enough and it was already Labor Day weekend (English people please write Labour). One of the worst parts of the Fall semester is that you don't get a Fall break and that Labour day weekend is 1 week after school starts so you don't really need a break! Typical!
After getting though part of the semester, me and Sean decided that we wanted to attempt a marathon! Never having done one or even a half marathon, I was relying on the fact that I used to be able to run cross country. But seeing as I was being pretty optimistic, I decided I would run it as slow as I could! We set up our course that went 10 times round the TU campus.
Amazingly I was able to do a half marathon, and decided that my legs wouldn't take me any more! At least I can say now that I have completed a half marathon!
Definitely should have made myself a medal or something in memory as I may not ever make more than 4 miles again!
At last, it had come! It was September and we all know what happens! Its the month of partying! Well.....! We were all getting ready for Michelle's 21st and Bonny's 22nd birthday which were a week apart and so we were celebrating them on two consecutive weekends!
Michelles Birthday "Lets get Wankered!"
And Bonny's Birthday "Lets get Wankered: Part 2"
We were prepared for them to be messy! Haha!
As planned, we had two MASSIVE parties and celebrated in style!
Our 1st exams were slowly approaching and pretty soon you could see everyone walking to the library at 8pm at night ready for their worst night of studying! Obviously, this is not my style and I get so distracted in the library and so study in my room! So much better :-)
Before we knew it, it was time for our first tournament in Missouri! It was called Aces for the Cure, where you get people to sponsor you for how many aces you hit in all your matches. I think i managed to hit 6, which I was pretty proud of as seen as the wind was about a million miles per hour!
We had also started this new fitness called EVO, which we were now doing even at tournaments! We thought it was crazy!
"Domination station in the right location!"- Sam
It was a good weekend overall for the team as it was nice to get some matches under our belt and see how good we can be this year. I won all 3 singles matches and 3 out of 4 doubles matches. My partner in crime now is Isaura! The best :-)
We went to P.F.Changs and made sure we devoured The Great Wall of China!
I had also got a little bit obsessed with Always by Bon Jovi, which I know is old but I love it. I'm not sure everyone loved it though, so i felt obliged to make sure they started loving it and played it repeatedly until they did..... Unfortunately, that didn't happen!
"I'll be there forever and a day...always!"
It came to me that I had been in Tulsa, for almost two years and I had yet to do anything out of the ordinary or visit places. Isaura and I decided that we desperately wanted to go see a Muse concert as we absolutely love them! They are epic!
Weirdly, the next week came by and BOK announced that Muse would be holding a concert next March and we were like OOOOOMMMMMMGGGGG! Seriously! So literally I had no hesitation in buying that ticket! So March 2013 couldn't come quicker!
I also went to see Pitch Perfect with Bonnie! It was absolutely hilarious and I couldn't stop quoting it for the next two days! Literally my tweets were just full of them! And yes i have been aboard the twittersphere, Svicks91. It is awesome and I think I love it more than facebook!
"I'm gonna finish him like a cheesecake"- Fat Amy
Fat Amy is the best character! Amazing!
Finally we were on a roll and we were headed to our next tournament in Arkansas. Not feeling the best at this tournament, I still did decently well. I won 2 out of 3 singles and 3 out of 3 doubles. Isaura and I were killing it at doubles and we were so excited about playing regionals! The decision was made- we wanted to be top 10!
Our trip was pretty good as we were able to go and watch Taken 2. I hadn't seen Taken yet but I understood it. I was pretty sure I wasn't looking forward to the gruesome parts and there were definitely a few. Worth a watch though, especially if your a Liam Neeson fan!
Seeing as Regionals was approaching it was getting especially important that I don't play as rubbish as I had been! So that meant....Serves! Yes it was that time again!
It had already been such a busy semester and to fit parties in was just too funny! This time we went to Amberleanas party! And you could say this one was the messiest of them all! But it was bonding time for me and Bonnie and so I think it was a pretty successful evening!
I couldnt have been more happy, but the rest of the semester was pretty damn epic!
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