Midterms - noun, annoying American exams, primarily annoying because they mean something.

Wow, definitely the busiest 2 weeks of UWC so far... getting back from Mexico started off pretty chill... but then we had preparations for END. END stands for "European National Day", it's actually a week where everyone from Europe gets to show parts of their culture, so each day we have different activities surrounding parts of European culture, on friday we'll be having global issues, this is where there's a particular issue (in this case immigration) and we have each person on a table from a different country to discuss with people about immigration in their country. Then on saturday we'll have a dinner with European food, a show with about 30 skits and finally a party. It was funny at first, everyone argued a fair amount... with some showing more passion for getting their voice in than others. Surprisingly I just sat at the back laughing at the more and more ridiculous prepositions, i'm pretty sure I heard "well if she's European what the bloody hell am I?" Well it's got less and less fun as the date approaches, i've had rehearsals every day this week... basically it's pretty damn stressful for everyone.

To add to that i've had midterms all week, England you're so lucky you don't have these... In England we have tests every so often that are more pointless than the time "How to speak french" was translated into french. In America they actually mean something, this means lots of tea, pizza and breakdowns. I'm through it though! After having no free time the midterms are over! END's still going on, in fact, as I type this i'm watching people paint the backdrop and show the central narrative; it strikes me how amazing people here are, like there's one adult here and that's because he has to be. Everything has been done by young people, we even managed to vote on good leaders, suck on that Mr Cameron.

Last week we went on a retreat with the whole year, we went to a big warehouse turned community centre. They had signs everywhere "No drugs, no alcohol, no violence, no kidding", imagine how boring it was, we weren't allowed to make jokes! It was actually better than I expected, we had a fair amount of free time so it was good to catch up with everyone properly, I also managed to spend the whole trip with no shoes on. It was also really cool to visit all the shops around Santa Fe, especially when we got to go out to eat.

So that's my last 2 weeks, not the most exciting but certainly the most stressful!

Before I go, one more piece of exciting news... next week... MY DAD'S COMING TO VISIT ME!! More on that later.