One week from now I'll have arrived in Japan. In one weeks time I'll be living in Japan.



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Turning Japanese

I got the grant! I'm going to Japan! I can't believe it! :D YAY!

All flights in Northern Europe cancelled due to volcanic ash

I got up at 5 this morning since I was going to go to Sweden today, but when I got to Stansted I found out all flight have been cancelled due to the volcano eruption in Iceland. Though I didn’t find this for many hours. When I got there, more than half of the flight had been cancelled, but ours wasn’t one of them. So we sat there, feeling lucky, eating our overpriced airport breakfast, after already having checked in our baggage and gone through security. Then when the gate number was announced, we started walking, and even then it hadn’t been cancelled. Halfway to the gate it got cancelled, together with all the remaining flights.

We’ve booked new tickets to Sweden for Saturday now, hopefully the ashes will have cleared by then, but it’s hard to tell. It looks like the flights will be cancelled tomorrow too..

According to BBC over 4000 flights in Northern Europe have been/will be cancelled just today. Even if there would be only 100 passengers per flights, we’re talking 400 000 people.

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A walk along the river Colne

Today I went for a nice walk along the local river here in Colchester.
It was a bit chilly, but at least it wasn’t raining. It’s been raining quite heavily lately.


The river Colne

Sign to show the footpath to campus

A pheasant

Typical English houses and a typical English sky

Railway tracks and tags