Final Weekend

I can't believe that this was my final weekend. It's gone so quickly, but then feels like I've been here forever at the same time. I'm going to be sad to leave, but really excited to come home too.
The theme of the semester has been 'Go Big or Go Home' so this weekend we didn't stop!
After my first goodbye over coffee with some of the girls from church, I spent a couple of hours in the library doing my second to last (wohoo) essay.

When I say I'm at the library, this is what's really happening...

On Friday, the English girls went downtown for the annual Christmas parade. It was also First Friday, I think I've wrote about this before, all of the shops and galleries stay open late and give you free wine and cookies whilst shopping. It's always really good and probably the busiest downtown Knoxville gets each month.

Befriending Knox policemen

When we came back Michaela randomly turned up at mine with face mask stuff, so put them on whilst playing Christmas music (thanks mum for the cheesey CD!), Joanna joined in which was really nice, she loved it and hadn't heard of any of the Christmas classics, the only one she knew was Jingle Bells! 


Facemasks

On Saturday, me and Georgia did a spot of gift shopping on the strip, nobody get excited, it's mostly orange merchandise; big orange country and all. Then went for lunch at Jason's Deli seen as neither of us have any good food in trying to get rid of it all before the end of the semester. Then we joined a few of the other internationals and went to a party off campus. David and Alan who's party it was have had sooo many parties for the internationals and they always give us free booze, they're too good to us! It was a really fun one though because it was Christmas fancy dress. I went in a Christmas tree t-shirt and stuck a gingerbread man to it. Needless to say, I looked special.


Alan, David, Jade & Gingerbread

Americans from my class at last week's Pirate Party

After a busy weekend, I had an essay to finish, so I got back from handing that in and Lauren was holding tea party for her rugby friends in our halls. Then, Shannon and Michaela made dinner and we had our secret santa swap. I got a placemat with all of the Presidents on and a 'Tennessee girl' window sticker, I think I was the winner!


The Knoxville Tea Party

I've only got one small essay left and classes are all finished now, so I'm just enjoying my last few days here before heading back to Eng-er-land in FIVE days!