Family Time

Ahhhh what a lovely week-end! My mum and brother arrived at around 3 on Friday afternoon while I was still in codes so they met with my house mother for a cup of tea and checked into their castle room. Then on my way to my last code (E Systems), I walked into the Great Hall and there was my mum talking to Alun! It was so nice to see her after over a month apart. While I was in class she met and spoke with my History teacher Kate and then after class she met my Maths teacher Nasser. They didn’t have much to say on my progress in the class obviously after only a couple of weeks but it was just if they were available and she could meet with them she wanted to be able to put a face to the names.

Afterwards I took Ben and her around Morgannwg introducing them to far too many people. They said how they found everyone to be just so genuinely nice, I guess I’m used to it in the house but for people to come from the outside it may seem strange how every single person is simply so friendly and welcoming- at least this is what I think they meant. We then went for a lovely dinner at the Italian restaurant in Llantwit and for the a couple hours chilled in their bedroom where I was lucky to have my mum read over my English Essay! Good times.

In the morning I took my mum around the castle grounds. Ben had already gone exploring the day before while she met with my teachers, and that morning he went to try and see the sunrise as he was extremely jet-lagged and awake at 5am… Ah boy. We went to Cardiff for the rest of the day of shopping –bought my winter coat (yay!)- and had a really nice dinner and watched a chick flick movie with mum at night. I also got to skype with my dad for the first time since him leaving on the 21^st, that was really nice too. It was a perfect day with the fam. Sunday she dropped me home at around 1, but not before we had a chance to go to ASDA and get lots of yummy food!

Last night we had the Middle Easter National Evening. The best part was probably the Turkish girls belly dancing but there were also a lot of interesting poems and songs from Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Yemen and Dubai. They finished their evening with all of their flags and the song from John Lennon ‘Imagine’ which I thought was quite interesting from all of the conflicts that go on between the countries. It was really nice to see.