As you know, I went on a geography fieldtrip this week. I decided beforehand to enjoy it, because originally, I’d been feeling sort of ‘meh’ about it, you all know what I mean. Anyway, Flamborough was REALLY beautiful. Look up ‘flamborough’ on Flickr, and that will give you some idea. I loved that place, I wanted to go on holiday there. You should go there. The pictures really do not capture it. The white rock was beautiful, such a clean, pure white.

The same could not be said, of course, of Hornsea and Mappleton. Hornsea’s one of those seaside resorts that no-one goes to any more, and just feels like a ghost town. Of course, it’s not in season, but all the shops would have been naff in season too. However, there were some huge, impressive waves there, because, apparently, the UK may be about to suffer a 1953-style north sea flood, or at least some impressively high tides. This is all bad news for the residents of places like mappleton, who experience things like this:

Photo on Flickr

The above picture is of Barmston, not Mappleton, although Mappleton is similar. The thing that’s really gutting the good villagers of Mappleton, however, is that the government have protected the road which leads to their village, but not the village itself. This is, of course, because the houses aren’t worth very much but the road is too expensive to relocate. I’ll leave you to debate this among yourselves.

I’ve really been having trouble getting work done in College, this has been for a number of reasons:

• I’ve been having real difficulty getting to sleep. I want time off, but that wouldn’t help anything.
• I have a serious problem with laziness, or sloth, for those who like to call me a big fat primate who hangs upside down from trees, and achieves very little. This has been going on for years, pretty much since I could use a computer, and the two go hand in hand. I wish I could pluck out the offending eye that is the computer, but I do, genuinely, need it for study. I could, and should, cut down a lot, but I’m not mentally strong enough. That’s no excuse. It’s only an observation from the past. However, now I think about it, this blog should be frozen, or something.
• I’m disorganised. I’m used to having four or five pieces of serious homework a month, and having that quantity a week really throws me. I like getting one subject done with at a time, but now I’m at the stage where if I did that, I could only do one subject a day. This is far from optimal. I need to do at least an hour of Russian a day, but I haven’t done that long in the last week, mainly through a combination of this and the above factor.

I’d really appreciate prayer about these things, because I do find them difficult. I did about 9 sides of maths work on Saturday. That might sound good, and I was pleased, but maths wasn’t the only thing needing to be done. I was too shattered in the end to do any Russian. If I want to be a missionary in Russia, that’s pretty much the most important thing I’m studying, and not doing any for all of a week is terrible.