Birthday

This weekend it was my birthday! I had such a great time. Seb came up for the week which was great because this was my first birthday away from home so it felt a bit weird. On Friday I had my party and lots of people came so i was very flattered that they all made such a big effort. My friends baked me cakes and everything which was so kind :)

Then on Saturday Seb took me out for dinner to a really nice restaurant called La Favorita.

On my birthday, i woke up really early and opened all my lovely presents and Seb cooked me a big fry up which was VERY yummy.

Also, on Saturday morning i checked my results for my exams:
I did very well, i'm so pleased with my results, I am averaging a first which is the best mark you can get so i'm very pleased with that. My best mark was in Organisational Behaviour and i got 77%
(To interpret: 40% is a 3rd, 50% is a 2:2, 60% is a 2:1 and 70% is a 1st)


My new modules this term are: Spanish 6, Marketing Mix, Financial Framework, Business Modelling and Personal Effectiveness. So far I'm not exactly enjoying any of them (Whereas last term I loved Organisational Behaviour)

Back at Uni

After my exams, we had refreshers which was where Loughborough gives us all a week off to chill after exams. Our hall put on loads of activities including my personal favourite 'Take Me Out'  Take me out is a game show on ITV which is run by Paddy McGuinuiss, basically there are 30 girls with red lights and a guy comes on and tries to get a date by talking about himself, showing a video and doing a talent. Then if the girls like him they keep their lights on, and if they dont they turn them off. It was a hilarious night, especially because our blockmate Harry was on it. Another boy who lives upstairs with us made his video and Im actually in it so check it out if you are bored

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-vOYeL19aI

In other news yesterday was a great day because I managed to get a job!!! Over the last two months I have been thinking about trying to get a job in Spain over summer in order to help me improve in my Spanish but also to put on my cv so that when it comes to applying for my placement, for the third year, in the first term of Second year I will have an advantage over my peers and should hopefully get a better job. The thing about my third year placement is that if i get a really good one, its likely they would offer you a graduate job, which in the current climate might be the best thing for me. Even if I decide not to go with wherever i do my placement will, having a good company to my CV will definately help me to succeed in other business's. SO i decided to start looking for things to do in summer in spain. However most of the stuff i could find was holiday camp work, which while it would be fun, doesnt really add much to the CV of a business school student. Then, my careers office sent me an adverty type thing for a job with a company called Dream Espana. They are a holiday rental company who are based in Nerja (Costa Del Sol) It sounded perfect because the job would be run mostly in English (Nerja is full of Ex pats) but occasionally i would need to use my Spanish for Spanish clients and also obviously i'd be living there so i would need to use it. Not only did it have typical intern like jobs, but it also had two spe cial projects just for the intern to help them have something extra for their cv.  It sounded great so i sent them my cv and cover letter and to my excitement they replied reasonably soon after saying they were impressed with my cv and wanted to give me a phone interview.

I did the phone interview last friday and the woman on the phone (Sally) sounded so nice. It is a family owned business and Sally and her husband run it. A few days later she emailed me to tell me I got the job so im really chuffed about that!

Also, of course, yesterday was valentines day!

Seb and I couldnt be together on the actual day but we did manage to have a 'skype date' which was fun. We both got Pizza and a nice pudding and i also decided to invest in some apple juice that actually needs to be refridgerated (luxurious times....) so it was all very nice. Its fun when we can do things together even though we arent physically together but he's coming up soon because it is my birthday pretty soon. Im going to be 19 which i cant quite get my head around because 19 is nearly 20 which is when I cant really pretend im not an adult anymore. Im still the baby of the flat though which everyone except Sarah being a lot older.
Alis is 20 this friday, Chris is 21 and our new flatmate Yvonne is 23! Shes lovely, shes German and she moved here from Frankfurt on Sunday. She replaced Chris who has moved to Hong Kong. 

Anyway, have a good day, I have to go read some chapters on Financial Framework... woo....