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well hello! things have been a little quiet here and I know I’m guilty of not blogging in an age, so just thought I’d post a little update on the life of soph, for any who are interested!

so, things that have happened to me since my last blog post:

- started back for my final year at warwick
- it was the christmas holidays. snow, champagne, new years fun, etc.
- I completed two TEFL courses (teaching english as a foreign language – the second was a booster course that specialised in teaching english to young learners. I passed with full marks yay =])
- I quit my job at the library
- I moved into a different halls of residence at uni to be with a close friend. this was probably the best thing that happened to me in the university year
- I applied to be a teaching assistant on réunion island and got the job, hurray =]
- it was the easter holidays. chocolate, coursework, revision, more coursework.
- it was exam period. my final year was fairly crappy for lots of reasons and work suffered as a result, so exams did not go so well and I didn’t get the results I had hoped for. but nevermind eh =]
- I graduated, despite the rubbishy exams – hurray. got to wear a silly hat etc.

things that are coming up over the next few weeks/months:

- going on a little caravan holiday in wales with uni friends. this has become an annual thing in the past few years, should be good fun =]
- family holiday to the norfolk broads
- hopefully some kind of summer job, no luck so far though…
- moving to la réunion, EEEEEK

so another reason for me writing this blog was that I’m going to be away for a pretty long time, chilling on my tropical island, and I would love to see everyone before I go. I’m planning a kind of mega-super-duper-hyper-massive london meet-up of both home and uni friends, which is going to happen on a weekend at some point, date undecided as of yet. it would be loooovvvvvely if you could all make it, especially those of you I haven’t seen in over a year!! I’m going to do a facebook event for it eventually which will have more details, but for the moment please could you let me know which of the following days would be best for you =]

Sunday 21st August

Saturday 27th August
Sunday 28th August
Monday 29th August (bank holiday)

Saturday 3rd September
Sunday 4th September

I’m thinking it will be a hyde park based gathering with games and picnic and drinks, and then moving on to a pub or going for a meal if people fancy it (or just sit in the pub all day if it’s raining). so yeh, please let me know if you can do any of those days, and which ones! =]

I think that is all the news/announcements I have! hope everyone is fine and dandy and enjoying life.

much love, s
xxx

Hello everyone. Since I haven’t blogged for a while, I thought I’d let you know what’s going on with me.

Damian and I celebrate our first wedding anniversary this weekend. We are going back to the hotel where we had our reception, for a meal, which I’m looking forward to very much as I was too ill last time to enjoy it! Can’t wait to have a quiet weekend together, exchange presents and enjoy each other’s company.

We have also booked a holiday in June. We’re off to Poland! We will be staying in the same town where Damian grew up with some friends. They live in a log cabin outside of town so I’m looking forward to campfires and barbeques. Damian is very excited to be going back and showing me his home town and I am looking forward to seeing all the places he’s spoken about. There are also lots of people to meet. Damian’s best friend growing up in Poland has also married and he has not met his wife and I haven’t met any of his friends out there.

As with previous years, I entered the public ballot to win tickets for Wimbledon at the end of last year. I recently had a letter back from them and unbelievably, we were offered tickets to see the men’s final!! We’ve booked and paid for them now and I’m so excited! Everyone is very jealous and I’ve had lots of offers from friends and family wanting the second ticket but will be going with Damo. We may have dinner there but we haven’t decided yet (it’s costing us a fair bit already, as you can imagine!) We couldn’t have said no though as it’s probably once in a lifetime and I will hopefully get to see two of my favourite players!!

Other exciting news- Damian has recently got a new job. He was headhunted from his previous job by an ex-colleague and now works for a small, but cosy, company in Chinner where he is the fifth member of staff. Quite a change from being in a huge international company!! He is still working with computers, partly doing support (as he was before) but now he is officially a software developer. He loves it! And he seems to really get on well with the people he works with- they took him out for a long lunch on his first day! 

Damian’s cousin is pregnant with her first child- the first addition to either of our (fairly immediate) families for over 10 years! His grandma made me laugh when we found out. She’s a very devout Polish Catholic and told me that she’d been praying for a baby in the family but for Damian and me instead!! -as he’s the eldest grandchild and married. Unfortunately for her, that’s not likely to happen in the very near future!

That’s about all from me at the moment. I’ve decided- everyone needs to make an effort to blog more!!

Hope you’re all ok anyway.

Robyn 

xx

On Tuesday Laurence proposed. I said yes.