It wasn't a very eventful week, which is why there is a lack of update. I've mostly just been going to class and doing a lot of reading for it.
On Thursday, though, Carolyn's parents came to visit her and took me out for dinner at the hotel they were staying at. They were really sweet! It was nice and the food was yummy. I had fish and chips for the first time.
I stayed up to finish reading Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and to talk to Janet. I don't think I fell asleep until at least 4:30am. I had to get up at 8:30am to get ready for my class at 10am. And I had lectures and seminars all day.
I really do not like how some things are run here. During my Gender and Women's Studies' seminar (discussion), we were told to bring in something that showed class and gender, be it an advertisement, newspaper article, or a book or movie. I chose The Help. We were going around sharing and commenting. I really enjoyed this discussion, but when it got around to the girl sitting next to me, she cut me off and skipped my turn. Now, I understand that she is running the class, but students should have some say in what they would like to discuss. I think it was rude that she cut me off and skipped my turn when I put the time, thought, and effort in the assignment. And besides that, we simply moved on, ignored the activity altogether and started to just talk about what she wanted. It felt like she didn't care about our opinions, she just wanted us to know hers. Why would she have us do this task if she didn't want us to have an in depth discussion about it?
Anyway, I was pretty upset over the whole ordeal. And frankly, a little disappointed. I don't feel like I learned anything. It was honestly just a waste of time.
I finally managed to download the 18th episode of City Hunter. I plan on making a cheese toastie and eating it in bed with some tea while watching City Hunter. Yay! It's the weekend.
Cheers! :)
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Feeling This
Sunday (Oct. 16)
After coming back to the flat, I watched some Friends with Carolyn (surprise, surprise). We stayed up quite late...I think we had too much energy after spending time working in the library. We were up until 2am making food. And I guess that night was the night to talk to everyone because I think I skyped with nearly my entire friends circle plus family.
Monday (Oct. 17)
Despite staying up late the night before, I managed to get up early! I got up at around 7:30am. I got back from one lecture at around noon, and just hung out in my flatmate, Shaun's, room watching Extreme Couponing and Hoarders. I miss TV...
Carolyn, Cíara, and I had a movie night watching Friends and Tangled. It's too bad we didn't get to finish, though, because it took forever to buffer. Internet here is really annoying, but I guess it's better than not having it at all.
We also made late night food and had girl talk again.
Tuesday (Oct. 18)
I got back from classes Tuesday feeling pretty good. I had my creative writing class, and I think it went really well. People that read my piece told me they really liked it. Although, I suppose I can't really imagine someone coming into class and telling another person they didn't like their piece of writing.
We went through an exercise where we took the clichéd, "It was a dark and stormy night." My tutor told us to write two more lines to create a lead, or hook, to grab the reader. Mine was something like this:
It was a dark and stormy night. I looked at my sister, and I knew she understood the damage that had just been done. As I rose from the body, I dropped the gun and turned into the kitchen to watch the blood from my hands.
I must have done a pretty good job because she said that my lead could probably end with just the first sentence. Maybe, I'm a better writer than I thought I was. :)
This guy in my class invited me back to his flat to have some tea. It was very English. We also spent some time in Waterstone talking about books. He lent me his copy of Jane Eyre because I have yet to read it. Ah! I have so much to read.
Carolyn, Zhen, and I also booked tickets to go see some real football! We're going to see the Arsenal vs. Wigan game on December 3rd.
Cíara took me and Carolyn out with some of her friends to a club called Revolutions. It was a reaaally good night. We played a drinking game with cards called Vendetta. Basically, you put down a card and choose someone to drink for the number of seconds corresponding with the card. If someone else around the table has the same number card, they can save that chosen person and pick someone else to drink. I ended up drinking my entire bottle of wine again. Hee.
Wednesday (Oct. 19)
I had no class today! Whoohoo!
I stayed in recovering from the night before...I actually wasn't that bad. Maybe a little dehydrated.
I should probably have done some work today, but I'm such a naughty procrastinatorrrr. I just don't want to. Especially on a day off. This is my problem. I only end up doing work on days where I have to be productive by going to class or working. Still, I've been a bit out of my mind here. I think I'm still getting used to being here, because I've been stupid and forgetful lately. Tomorrow is a new day! I need to wake up from this sleep!
I'm gonna do work today, and watch Pirates of the Caribbean with Carolyn. And can I just say that I miss Korea even more than I miss home? I was going through some of my pictures with her, and I could feel my heart aching like I was missing a long, lost lover.
This entry will updated with some photos from the night before later.
Cheers! :)
After coming back to the flat, I watched some Friends with Carolyn (surprise, surprise). We stayed up quite late...I think we had too much energy after spending time working in the library. We were up until 2am making food. And I guess that night was the night to talk to everyone because I think I skyped with nearly my entire friends circle plus family.
Monday (Oct. 17)
Despite staying up late the night before, I managed to get up early! I got up at around 7:30am. I got back from one lecture at around noon, and just hung out in my flatmate, Shaun's, room watching Extreme Couponing and Hoarders. I miss TV...
Carolyn, Cíara, and I had a movie night watching Friends and Tangled. It's too bad we didn't get to finish, though, because it took forever to buffer. Internet here is really annoying, but I guess it's better than not having it at all.
We also made late night food and had girl talk again.
Tuesday (Oct. 18)
I got back from classes Tuesday feeling pretty good. I had my creative writing class, and I think it went really well. People that read my piece told me they really liked it. Although, I suppose I can't really imagine someone coming into class and telling another person they didn't like their piece of writing.
We went through an exercise where we took the clichéd, "It was a dark and stormy night." My tutor told us to write two more lines to create a lead, or hook, to grab the reader. Mine was something like this:
It was a dark and stormy night. I looked at my sister, and I knew she understood the damage that had just been done. As I rose from the body, I dropped the gun and turned into the kitchen to watch the blood from my hands.
I must have done a pretty good job because she said that my lead could probably end with just the first sentence. Maybe, I'm a better writer than I thought I was. :)
This guy in my class invited me back to his flat to have some tea. It was very English. We also spent some time in Waterstone talking about books. He lent me his copy of Jane Eyre because I have yet to read it. Ah! I have so much to read.
Carolyn, Zhen, and I also booked tickets to go see some real football! We're going to see the Arsenal vs. Wigan game on December 3rd.
Cíara took me and Carolyn out with some of her friends to a club called Revolutions. It was a reaaally good night. We played a drinking game with cards called Vendetta. Basically, you put down a card and choose someone to drink for the number of seconds corresponding with the card. If someone else around the table has the same number card, they can save that chosen person and pick someone else to drink. I ended up drinking my entire bottle of wine again. Hee.
Wednesday (Oct. 19)
I had no class today! Whoohoo!
I stayed in recovering from the night before...I actually wasn't that bad. Maybe a little dehydrated.
I should probably have done some work today, but I'm such a naughty procrastinatorrrr. I just don't want to. Especially on a day off. This is my problem. I only end up doing work on days where I have to be productive by going to class or working. Still, I've been a bit out of my mind here. I think I'm still getting used to being here, because I've been stupid and forgetful lately. Tomorrow is a new day! I need to wake up from this sleep!
I'm gonna do work today, and watch Pirates of the Caribbean with Carolyn. And can I just say that I miss Korea even more than I miss home? I was going through some of my pictures with her, and I could feel my heart aching like I was missing a long, lost lover.
This entry will updated with some photos from the night before later.
Cheers! :)
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Le Week-end
Friday (Oct. 14)
I had classes alllll day. I remember just being really frustrated at getting lectured all day. It was pretty depressing.
After sitting in class all day, I had far too much energy in my body. I just wanted to playyyy. So I went and learned some guitar from Shaun. It took me a looong time and I think it was a fail, because I probably couldn't play it again if anyone asked.
I had to work on my creative writing piece too. I still hadn't a clue what I was going to write about. It ended up being about me, drawing inspiration from the movie The Proposal. Yeah, don't ask. It's pretty terrible.
Carolyn had to watch a movie for her class (Indiana Jones!), so I basically sat in her room all evening working on my creative writing/watching Indiana Jones. We had some girl talk in between. :)
Somewhere in there we played some Corridor Jousting. Take a look below!
I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but I played Shaun's Formula 1 game for quite some time...longer than I expected. But I got better! I kept at it, and Cíara was telling me she was impressed with my patience. I went from 2:05 to 2:00 to 1:55 to 1:43...I was so proud of myself!
More girl talk...
Then sitting around, chatting in Greg's room, playing more Formula 1 in Shaun's, playing guitar and singing...then, everyone went to bed while Carolyn and I stayed up to do laundry. At 4am. It was brilliant and stupid, all at once. While we waited for our laundry, we watched the Formula 1 race in South Korea. :)
Saturday (Oct. 15)
Because I ended up falling asleep at around 6:30am, just before the sun came up, I slept in and woke up at 1pm. I did some work (finishing up my story and writing up my Global Identity response). I later got some food with Carolyn at the Chinese restaurant we went to on our first day here. I had the sweet and sour chicken with fried rice. Mm...
Then we played board games. Cluedo and Trivial Pursuit. I suck at games.
Girl talk!
Sunday (Oct. 16)
I woke up early to wash up and get ready for the day, but it was so cold, I crawled right back into bed. I ended up falling asleep. (Surprise surprise)
I met up with Carolyn and Cíara at the library to get some reading/studying done. We made quite a bit of progress. I'm pretty satisfied. :)
I don't know what I'm going to do now. Guess I'll just curl up with a book. Something will likely happen, and I'll have to update again.
It's a bit rainy here today. I hope yours was sunnier. <3
Cheers! :)
I had classes alllll day. I remember just being really frustrated at getting lectured all day. It was pretty depressing.
After sitting in class all day, I had far too much energy in my body. I just wanted to playyyy. So I went and learned some guitar from Shaun. It took me a looong time and I think it was a fail, because I probably couldn't play it again if anyone asked.
I had to work on my creative writing piece too. I still hadn't a clue what I was going to write about. It ended up being about me, drawing inspiration from the movie The Proposal. Yeah, don't ask. It's pretty terrible.
Carolyn had to watch a movie for her class (Indiana Jones!), so I basically sat in her room all evening working on my creative writing/watching Indiana Jones. We had some girl talk in between. :)
Somewhere in there we played some Corridor Jousting. Take a look below!
I don't remember exactly what happened after that, but I played Shaun's Formula 1 game for quite some time...longer than I expected. But I got better! I kept at it, and Cíara was telling me she was impressed with my patience. I went from 2:05 to 2:00 to 1:55 to 1:43...I was so proud of myself!
More girl talk...
Then sitting around, chatting in Greg's room, playing more Formula 1 in Shaun's, playing guitar and singing...then, everyone went to bed while Carolyn and I stayed up to do laundry. At 4am. It was brilliant and stupid, all at once. While we waited for our laundry, we watched the Formula 1 race in South Korea. :)
Saturday (Oct. 15)
Because I ended up falling asleep at around 6:30am, just before the sun came up, I slept in and woke up at 1pm. I did some work (finishing up my story and writing up my Global Identity response). I later got some food with Carolyn at the Chinese restaurant we went to on our first day here. I had the sweet and sour chicken with fried rice. Mm...
Then we played board games. Cluedo and Trivial Pursuit. I suck at games.
Girl talk!
Sunday (Oct. 16)
I woke up early to wash up and get ready for the day, but it was so cold, I crawled right back into bed. I ended up falling asleep. (Surprise surprise)
I met up with Carolyn and Cíara at the library to get some reading/studying done. We made quite a bit of progress. I'm pretty satisfied. :)
I don't know what I'm going to do now. Guess I'll just curl up with a book. Something will likely happen, and I'll have to update again.
It's a bit rainy here today. I hope yours was sunnier. <3
Cheers! :)
Monday, October 10, 2011
First Day
The last night before class was spent in the flat playing a video game in Shaun's room, playing card games (Go Fish and War, for the curious), and watching my favorite TV show, Friends. Carolyn showed me this website and we watched it on my computer in my room, starting from the beginning.
I had my first class today at 11am. I was so excited, I didn't sleep much the night before...but now that I have time in between this class and the next, I decided to work on some reading, blog...and maybe nap. :)
My first class today was Gender and Women's Studies 101. I left the flat at maybe around 10:45am and got there early. This campus is super small! Back at home, I would typically leave the apartment at least a half hour before class started. I love that everything is so close. It makes life easy. Thinking about it today, I'm already getting sad about leaving. Because now that classes have started, I feel like I finally have a life! Ha. I am definitely starting to fall in love...
It is a little rainy here today, but not bad. I just wore my white, waterproof jacket and my Converse. Actually, the classroom I was in was really hot! So it was kind of nice that it was cool out.
After my first class, I met up with Carolyn to run some errands and grab lunch. We ate at Sultan's on campus. I had a Tomato and Mozzarella panini with chips and a drink. It was sooo good, but I couldn't finish. I felt bad -- I hate leaving food.
Then we went to Waterstone, a bookstore here in the UK, and Proust's, Swann's Way, was screaming my name. I bought it. Excellent purchase. I can't wait to curl up in bed and start reading it.
My next class is a film showing for my Literature and Film class. I can't remember what we're watching, but I found out last night (when I was being an insomniac) that I actually do have quite a bit of reading to do before I go. It begins at 5pm and I've still got about 3 hours to do it. Better start now if I want to get started on Proust!
Cheers! :)
I had my first class today at 11am. I was so excited, I didn't sleep much the night before...but now that I have time in between this class and the next, I decided to work on some reading, blog...and maybe nap. :)
My first class today was Gender and Women's Studies 101. I left the flat at maybe around 10:45am and got there early. This campus is super small! Back at home, I would typically leave the apartment at least a half hour before class started. I love that everything is so close. It makes life easy. Thinking about it today, I'm already getting sad about leaving. Because now that classes have started, I feel like I finally have a life! Ha. I am definitely starting to fall in love...
It is a little rainy here today, but not bad. I just wore my white, waterproof jacket and my Converse. Actually, the classroom I was in was really hot! So it was kind of nice that it was cool out.
After my first class, I met up with Carolyn to run some errands and grab lunch. We ate at Sultan's on campus. I had a Tomato and Mozzarella panini with chips and a drink. It was sooo good, but I couldn't finish. I felt bad -- I hate leaving food.
Then we went to Waterstone, a bookstore here in the UK, and Proust's, Swann's Way, was screaming my name. I bought it. Excellent purchase. I can't wait to curl up in bed and start reading it.
My next class is a film showing for my Literature and Film class. I can't remember what we're watching, but I found out last night (when I was being an insomniac) that I actually do have quite a bit of reading to do before I go. It begins at 5pm and I've still got about 3 hours to do it. Better start now if I want to get started on Proust!
Cheers! :)
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| You can't see it here, but the lecture theatre my first class was in is on the left! |
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