I know i said i would keep this blog up to date and make and entry for evertday but it has become more and more difficult especially with uni starting. So Ill give an update now; Uni has started well im looking forward to learning there and improving my skills; i have taken a drawing class as i mentioned before focusing on portraiture and body which i would like to get good at, i have also taken an engraving class which is so cool we start of with lino cuts, yeah i know i do them a lot but i enjoyb them and have never really had any lessons but wil go on to learn wood cutting and etching repectively. Thursday was a poignant day I guess after a day of lino cutting which was great i decided to shave my hair off. With much help from Jo and and Emily it finally was done after literally hours of cutting and shaving with a bic razor, perhaps not the best instrument. It hurt at times but i had to grin and bear it as i didnt want Jo or Emily to stop half way through. Anyway it is done, and i happy with it, i have being thinking about for such a long time that its nice to finally have done it, and it is the perfect time, it still gives me time to grow it back before returning to England in case i change my mind. In a way its quite a nice analogy of sheding my English skin and embracing Portugal, it is so much more practical and i need not worry about how my hair looks anymore. We will see how long i keep it up. Also on Thursdat there was an international dinner party at our house which was fun, i didnt stay up that late as i had uni the next day but i enjoyed the time I spent. Saw some familiar faces, the Scandanavian boys I have met several time previously as well as some new faces including Londoner called Lizzy and Sarah a girl from Holland all in all it was fun but i felt guilty as there was a baby staying over as well so i hope that it got to sleep before the party kicked off.

Today has been one of my favourite days so far we went back to Cascais which although was fun I realy didnt have the urge to return but we thought we would rent some bikes and ride along the coast. As it happens we were too late to rent bikes but decided we would walk instead but first we would pop into Jumbo a massive hypermarket to pick up some picnic bits and pieces. We then set off on our trek, going the opposite direction from the time before and I instantly liked it more, it was so panoramic. I really loved it, I think it even beat the Algarve, certainly the weather did it was such a nice day. We made various stops, the first me and Jo sat on this cliff which literally overhung the ocean it was so good having our legs dangle over the edge, it was both exhilerating, humbling in the sense I felt so insignificant and yet calming and thereupeutic. We stoped at this park to have our picnic to get out of the sun for a while, it was the best, i love picnics anyway but this was such a good experience, the park was empty besides to boys playing on bikes and we just sat in this little clearing and had lunch. Afterwards we kept heading for this beach which took literally hours although we did stop and start to take in the views. Literally as i was ready to turn around we found the beach, Guincha, it was nice enough but perhaps the walk was an anticlimax, i prefered the journey. I saw some surfing which was kind of cool but was good just to say we made it there, we found out that it was an 8 km walk so it was quite impressive. We decided to get the bus back as we were tired and did not know how long it would take us to get back, i enjoyed the ride back too taking in the scenery as it was a road that literally followed the coast. We then popped into Jumbo once again to pick up some bits and pieces, we found some English sausages which are impossible to find in Lisbon so we will have bangers and mash some time soon, i could not decide what i needed and i had 4 euros so in the end i just picked up some strawberry juice.