Gym-Tastic
Hello Readers, I hope you all had as good an Easter break as I did. While I do not celebrate Easter as such it is nonetheless a good excuse to share a nice meal with friends. Which is why me and some of my friends that stayed in Aberdeen over the Easter break got together for a nice roast chicken dinner (courtesy of my fellow blogger Nooreen) and a few hours of witty conversation about this and that. During the break I also made good use of the fact that both of my housemates were away and finally organised a long-overdue raclette for some of my fellow PhD students. The evening was a great success with a perfect mix of food, wine, and great company and there will definitely be a repeat at some stage in the near(ish) future. To top it all off I visited two of my best friends in the whole world in Edinburgh last weekend and as you might have guessed this visit involved yet more wine and good food.
All of this feasting means that I will have to hit the gym again more often in the coming weeks as I need to get in shape for the summer. As mentioned in previous blogs I totally love going to the gym, though there are days when it is a real chore to drag myself out of bed and over there. I recently picked up a little leaflet that has me even more excited about going to the gym: the university will be getting a brand new gym this summer and it looks fantastic! It will have an Olympic sized swimming pool, several indoor and outdoor track courses, its main games hall is the size of nine badminton courts, and its gym will have a hundred cardio-vascular and muscle-pumping machines. In other words it will be a gym bunny’s paradise J Best of all, students at the university will only pay about £90 a year for full membership despite the facilities being used for the 2012 Olympic Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games (as training grounds, not venues mind you). The new facilities are just two minutes off campus so there is no excuse not to make use of them J
That is all the news from me this week. I going out for dinner with my sister and cousin, but thanks to the new gym I will not have to feel bad about it J
Until the next time, be well in all things.
David