So yes, I'm going to Ghent. I found out the day before yesterday. I got it through the French department interview but I still went to the English department interview just in case. It went well I think... I've already decided that while I'm living there I'll meet up with my cousin Liam in Amsterdam for a week-end or something. I missed going to ( Read more... )

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'VE DONE IT!!! I'VE JUST DONE IT!!! I've requested the Erasmus grant... I'm freaking scared, but quite happy with myself and that... I've put, for good or bad, the universities in this order ( Read more... )

Recently the English teacher who sends us job related e-mails sent a reminder that now is the time to apply for the Programa de Mobilitat if we want to go away to California for a year. This has made me reconsider my plans for next year, and pretty much the next three years. You see, I've long since been planning on going off to France in an ( Read more... )

Today I went to see "Hamlet" in the theatre with my family. It was brilliant, the director is Calixto Bieito and he always adapts Shakespeare in a very shocking way. Last year he put up "Macbeth" and the Scottish monarchs were rather like a mafia kind of group, and Ross when he kills I-don't-remember he suffocates her with the cable of an iron. As ( Read more... )

Well, I still haven't met my real Gramática or Grammar teacher. On Mondays and Wednesdays I have English Literature of the 20th Century, English Grammar and then Spanish Grammar. On Monday the 22nd I missed the first class and then joined the wrong groups of the subjects I had, and Wednesday 24th was Bank Holiday. This week both the Grammar and ( Read more... )

Today I was so confused in university!!! I arrived 10 minutes before the beginning of the lessons thinking I'd have time to see which were my classrooms and everything. BUT, I had forgotten the paper that said which were my groups and all that. So I ended up missing the first lesson and whilst looking at the board where the classrooms we had to go ( Read more... )

On Monday the telly went "puff". So it doesn't work at all. It just went off as I changed the channel just after watching "A Beautiful Mind", lucky it wasn't in the middle of the film ( Read more... )