Hello readers! I've had a really relaxed week. One of the lecturers was on medical leave so there was only one lecture and one seminar this week. I've been doing a lot of reading to make myself smart and knowledgeable although I'm already very much so. My first essay has been marked and I got a good grade. My only mistake was a citation mistake but that was only because I didn't know how to cite a source that was a lecture according to the Harvard style of referencing. The evaluations for my seminar presentations so far have also been quite good. It would appear that I'm not as useless at Archaeology as I first thought. We shall see how it goes.

Scottish salmon has been on the menu all week. I bake it in the oven with pesto sauce and it's super delicious.

It's getting very cold now (below zero at night) and it is going to get colder. According to someone who has a farming background, you can tell that it's going to be a cold winter if there are a lot of berries on the holly bushes. The bushes are absolutely covered with berries! The squirrels have also been hoarding nuts like nobody's business. It's going to be a cold, cold winter.

When it gets too cold, I will probably camp in the kitchen beside the oven. For now, camping beside the radiator in my room stops me dying from hypothermia.

I was checking out gloves on thursday. The sports gloves looked nice but they were too bulky. I saw this black leather pair that was tempting but really expensive. Maybe I will buy them as a birthday present for me.

My Cypriot flatmate was cooking a really interesting soup in the kitchen. A porridgey concoction made from wheat, barley and cheese. She gave me some cheese to try and it tasted like mozzarella but saltier and had mint leaves in it. I've never seen a soup like that before.

My Iranian flatmate was telling me about how one of the Electronics lecturers had brought a prototype head-controlled wheelchair for a demonstration in class. Tilt head back to go backwards, lean forward to go forward, look left to turn left etc. And I asked, " What if the person in the wheelchair wanted to look left while turning right?"