Posts Tagged ‘university halls’

St Mark’s

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 | Life

Elina had recently jumped ship on her accommodation again and this time moved to St Mark’s, which is located just behind the Eldon. In celebration, she invited me over for dinner. I was very much looking forward to trying herring casserole, but this was mainly due to the fact that at the time I was mixing herrings up with storks for some reason (herring, herring gull, stork maybe?) though when I found out it was just pork instead, I was equally contented.

The flat was charming, which I’m sure you’re all aware is a nice way of saying that it’s a shit hole. The tiny kitchen table suited the two of us very nicely but would have been a push to get four people round, as is traditional with any student kitchen, the gas stove spark didn’t work and to top it off the showers don’t seem to produce any hot water. Ah, student days.

After dinner we settled down in Elina’s room and watched Star Wreck, which is a Finnish film parodying Star Trek. It waas well worth a watch and the questionable production values only added to it’s charm. Much like the actual Star Trek it gives it’s audience something to aspire to (just in this case it was being Emperor, rather than that whole Utopian future nonsense 😉 ).

Elettra’s millionaire mansion

Thursday, March 24th, 2011 | Friends

On the Tuesday night of Reason Week we dropped by Elettra’s place to drop off some equipment. She is living in Charles Morris which was recently renovated and is the poshest student hall I have ever seen – automatic doors and gates, automatic lights in her en-suite room, the masquerade ball and a 24 hour concierge desk!