Spring is Here!

It's my dream to visit Japan during cherry blossom/ Sakura season, but unfortunately I'm just a poor university student- and it would cost loads to get there!

 

taken from tohokutomo.com

 taken from lifetoreset.wordpress.com

(oh, what I'd give to have a picnic under those trees)

It's alright, though. Manchester has its own charm. In the last few weeks, the pair of trees right outside my uni accommodation have bloomed and the effect is simply gorgeous!

(*ˊૢᵕˋૢ*)🌸

A photo posted by Eveeee (๑´ㅂ`๑)♡*.+゜ (@evangelskies) on May 5, 2015 at 5:03am PDT

You can definitely tell that spring is here~

I may not have made it to Japan to see the cherry blossoms but I think this is pretty too ( ˊ• ૢ·̫•ˋૢ) Makes me happy whenever I walk back to my accommodation

A photo posted by Eveeee (๑´ㅂ`๑)♡*.+゜ (@evangelskies) on Apr 28, 2015 at 5:58am PDT

(*ˊૢᵕˋૢ*)(*ˊૢᵕˋૢ*)(*ˊૢᵕˋૢ*)

A photo posted by Eveeee (๑´ㅂ`๑)♡*.+゜ (@evangelskies) on Apr 28, 2015 at 6:01am PDT

Today, we woke up to find flower petals everywhere- in our kitchen (the windows were open), spilling out into the corridors, and it was so surreal. The moment I stepped out of my room to see petals strewn about the hallway, my day felt instantly magical. I felt like a princess.

How pretty is this oh my gosh am I in Japan

A photo posted by Eveeee (๑´ㅂ`๑)♡*.+゜ (@evangelskies) on May 5, 2015 at 4:46am PDT

As I walked to lectures, the petals were flying in the wind, coming to rest in my hair, drifting past me aimlessly... if this is what Disney princesses conjure up everyday, where do I sign-up as one?

🌸🌼🌻🌱

A photo posted by Eveeee (๑´ㅂ`๑)♡*.+゜ (@evangelskies) on May 5, 2015 at 5:02am PDT

Hope you enjoyed these pictures! Do you have any spring sights as well?

🌸💕

A photo posted by Eveeee (๑´ㅂ`๑)♡*.+゜ (@evangelskies) on May 5, 2015 at 5:30pm PDT

Kitchen Troubles

Ah, student dormitories.

You get the odd quirk in your kitchen that you tend to get a little fond of, never mind how annoying you thought it at first.
In ours, we had a dented oven door that just wouldn't shut. It would creak open relentlessly and let all the heat out, and in the end we gave up trying and propped a chair against it.

It was annoying at first, definitely, and we complained about the 'shitty oven' whenever we used it.

It became a conversation starter for us too, when we were just standing about aimlessly waiting for things to cook.

I admit to using it a few times because I am a boring person and a complaint always gets the conversation going, then we could proceed to grumble about the state of the rooms, the dilapidated old building (I hear it will be knocked down soon), and conclude, in the end, that ours was better than the other buildings because of the en-suite facilities.

 We wrote in to the accommodation team, appealing for them to come in and get it fixed but somehow they never got about to doing it, and we gave up emailing them.

The chair became a handy place too, and I enjoyed sitting down there with a book and I could keep a very close eye on the pot instead of walking to and fro from the table to the stove/hob.

One morning, I was woken up by the accommodation staff for their routine health and safety inspection check (which took no more than 4 seconds, I swear I'm not exaggerating- they just marched into my room and took a look at my shower and probably gave the room a quick once-over during their march-in and out, because they thanked me and left immediately after)

And apparently they got the oven door fixed as well because my housemates were sitting about the table at lunch talking about it, and we each took turns to open and shut it, marvelling at how it was working again.

We kept the chair there for a few days, though, forgetting it was completely pointless until it was moved away during a late-night drinking session because there wasn't enough chairs.

Just today, one of my housemates commented that it felt a little weird having the oven door fixed. 

"I miss kicking the door shut and propping the chair against it, haha."

"Mmmm, same! I keep looking for the chair, and a couple of days back I dragged it over and propped it against the door because I forgot the oven's fixed now."

Well, at least the dent is still there.

Wonder if they can fix that too?