Tis the Season

It is officially the last week of the term! After last week's post, I worked for three days straight on a huge group project which was due Monday, then Dan and I wrote up our entire project/ methods proposal, then I wrote up the last of my pre-break coursework assignments. So now, as of this morning, I am officially finished with all of the term's academic work!!! I do have a meeting tomorrow with Dan and our supervisor, Jane, to do more dissertation project work and hopefully finish building our experiment in the software program we're using. I would love to have that finished before break. It would be a great sense of accomplishment, a weight off while I'm home, and would make the project easy to pick up and run with as soon as we get back!

While taking a short break from work this past weekend, AD and I wandered down to High Street for lunch and some errands. When we got there, we found the above scene of chaos which turned out to be a Christmas Market/ Festival of sorts. It looked sort of like a cheap carnival with the sparse and cheesy rides, and scattered pathetic tables of jewelry or other things for sale. However, it had one mighty redeeming characteristic:     Reindeer!!!

Naturally, that made all the chaos, crowds, and noise okay. Annoyance is completely canceled out when there are real live reindeer involved.

This morning, following our very last lecture of the semester, Dan managed to arrange a little celebration for all the Consumer Psych masters students. So after all the presentations were finished, we all hung out with mulled wine and mini mince pies chatting and relaxing. It was actually really nice. As much as we comprise a small department and see each other in classes every single day, it seems that people on the course don't know each other as well as we all should. So today we actually all got to know one another a bit more, bonding over our shared joy for the end of assignments, Christmas, and free snacks.

Speaking of Christmas, in case you weren't aware, it is next week. This also means that this time next week, I will be home. In Massachusetts. Wearing sweatpants and not thinking about school. I will also not be thinking about this blog. That's right, folks. The blog will be going on hiatus over the holiday break. Doesn't make much sense to continue a blog about my time in Wales while I'm not in Wales, now does it? Not to worry though, as soon as I'm back here in January the blog will resume.

I will see (some of) you soon, and for those of you whom I will not be seeing while I am home, have a wonderful holiday!

A Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Night!