Saturday10th March 07

Well, today, I pretty much spent the day sleeping off my cold. But I did venture into town to buy a jumper (I only took one and the weather hasn't been great the last few days.) This turned out to be a slightly more eventful trip than expected. There was a group of us, around 12 or so, so we decided to split up and meet back in an hour. I was pretty pleased cos I was in a less than tolerant mood (as I usually am when I don't feel great) and so wasn't particularly in the mood for people. Just as I was about to enter a department store I heard someone shout my name, to my horror, here were four massively overprotective guys who had apparently decided I shouldn't go anywhere alone and so had taken it upon themselves to be my bodyguards. They seemed so excited I didn't have the heart to turn them down. Oh how I wish I had. Long story short, it may have been one of the single most embarrassing days of my life. I thought they would linger on the outskirts as I perused the shops to find one that had European sizes (ie anything bigger than a size 10) but no. First shop we come to they barge in front of me picking up some horrendous suggestions of outfits. I decided to be tactful and so (stupidly) motioned that they were to small. At this they ran up to nearby sales assistants asking for another size. When she asked which size they pointed at me, once the sales assistants got over the initial shock they went on to say that no they didn't. This was repeated in numerous shops until I gave up and said that I didn't like anything in the hopes of getting to leave. At this, they dragged me away to two more floors (by this point, they had encouraged 4 more girls to come and help) eventually finishing when I found a half okay zip up sweater thing. It was pink. At least they loved it. My entourage however, did not disband until we got back to campus, where I, exhaustedly, headed back to bed.