☺November☺

It's getting dark and getting cold real quick and you go into your 4pm tutorials when the sun is still relatively out and then come out an hour later and it's pitch black :'( 

But at the same time, leaves of beautiful shades of red, orange, brown and yellow are starting to drop, forming crunchy carpets of leaves which I find absolute pleasure walking on :') 

The first week of November has passed and I have successfully submitted my policy brief! All that's left is the POE project on sycamore leaves due at the end of the month and after that it's all prep for exams, and before you know it it'll be 2017?! before I get carried away talking about how quick time is passing as I always do, here's some of my fav pics of November so far

Ordered a duvet and a gorgeous duvet cover on Amazon which I am in love with! My bed is so voluminous and comfy now and most importantly - actually keeps me warm so I don't wake up in the middle of the night because it's freezing

Glorious Acai bowl (fun fact: I go to sleep being so excited to wake up just so I can eat breakfast because it's my favourite meal of the day that I take the most pride and effort in making)

George Square campus

Kings campus

Took this on the shuttle bus back from Kings :)

New fav place for amazing vegan food!

Had a Chili bowl and Topo had a veggie dog with rosemary fries - deeelish !!

Pretty sunsets that I take notice of and appreciate more as the sun is starting to set much earlier!

Chocolate buckwheat protein pancakes! They were rather dense and actually slightly bland on their own, but paired with bananas, warmed mixed berries, coconut shreds, goji berries drizzled with maple syrup - they became super duper yummy!

Lovely walk past Arthur's seat to Duddingston Loch :')

How beautiful is the loch!!

Mini Nessies hehe

Taken from Dr.Neil's garden which was an absolute gem :')

Was pretty grumpy at this point because it was late (3pm), I was hungry and I was cold but lunch at Paradise Palms picked me right up - had a sweet potato and peanut soup with Veggie tempuras and Topo had the jackfruit sub with rosemary fries (again, bcos they are soo good)!!

It's 9pm on a Tuesday night and I'm gonna take a shower and get ready for pre's cos tonight we're having an election party at prow! So excited for it and just to head out really, but also for the election results. I actually did some research to further my knowledge on the whole election situation and just wanna say: 'may the best female win' !!

Imagine what the world would be like if we all just said what was on our minds

Rest of October

1. Went to the National Gallery to visit the Vangoh, Monet Daubigny Inspiring Impressionism exhibition and it was a-m-a-z-i-n-g 

Sat on a bench and drank pumpkin spice lattes to this view :') 

2. Lunch at 10-to-10! Super good and affordable Indian food here

3. Bfast!! Fav combination at the moment is dates with peanut butter :)

4. Went to Leith and the view here was so pretttyyy 

5. Acai Bowl for bfast! Frozen bananas, berries and mangoes as the base with Acai powder and it was the creamiest Acai bowl I've ever made !!

6. Had a sushi party in De Rui's flat to Celebrate Beverly's birthday! 

7. Met up with Lizzy!! She's studying in Aberdeen and came to visit Edinburgh for a couple of days :) It felt so weird but cool at the same time because I never would have thought that I would be seeing a St.Nicks classmate in Edinburgh! It was such a great catch up over yummy ramen and hopefully we will see each other more in the future :')

8. Principles of Ecology group!! We're doing our project on the variation of tar spot size on different sized Sycamore leaves - may sound fancy but trust me its not. But I'm glad to be in this group who makes me dread doing the report a little less 

9. It feels like winter has dawned upon us overnight, which means transitioning to warmer breakfasts now! Had a delicious bowl of berry-oatmeal for breakfast ft. mr pumpkin carved out by Lucie! 

I've got a policy brief coming up due on Wednesday for my International Development, Aid and Humanitarianism module! It's taking such a long time to get done not just content wise but the fact that we have to design the thing ourselves such that it looks fancy and like an actual policy brief, but I must say I am enjoying the process because it's something I've never done before and I'm so into my topic on Improving Menstrual Hygiene in Informal Settlements in Rwanda!! I think this is my favourite module this semester because the content is so interesting and also the tutorials are debate styled. Some of the debate topics we had so far were ' This house believes that there is no such thing as natural disasters ' and ' Celebrities do more harm than good when it comes to humanitarian aid ' :) So I'm glad that for once I am actually enjoying my tutorials and going to lectures - just maybe not so keen on the readings but that's all part of the uni experience right? 

Anyway, gotta go back to my policy brief now! It's coming to the end of October already - time is passing by so quickly! But I'm taking it as a positive because I am enjoying second year so much :') My cousins are also coming up to London in 2 weeks so I'll be going down to meet them and I'm so incredibly excited!! 

Hoping that November is going to be a good month too despite the cold, byeeeeeee xxxx