The Reality Hits Home
so i finally got a key. which made me smile, as now ive a place i can call home. I thought about moving elsewhere, somewhere cheaper, but living with the family has improved my language and they are very helpful as they know a lot about the uni because of my house ´sisters´. Vivianne (26 who lives at home with me) does a postgrad there and Adriana (28 and has a 11 year old daughter who both live round the corner) graduate a year ago from the uni.
However, ive just realised ive a bit of a tricky financial situation at the moment. I can live on R$170 for bare minimum (rent, food and bus money) which is 53 pounds / $106 a week. But only for 10 weeks. After that ive no idea what i am going to do, use my savings, or get my parents to help, but i have the whole week stressing about it, as i am here another 20 weeks and i actually want to travel around and see stuff! But i dont want to starve...
i go onto campus only two days a week and i stay there all day - which is helping with the low bus fares. I am going to put up posters to teach English and German on those days too, to get extra cash, and spend Tuesdays at home, doing my washing, studying, buying food at the supermarket, etc. Then spend my savings going away for long weekends. This is all, of course, as long as my Technical Vocal class is on a mon or wed. (the board says 4-6pm mon and i hope it stays at that time but you never know here, they are so disorganised)
In other news i completed my module form for final year Portuguese and was disgusted at my ´optional´ module choices. Portuguese language was compulsary and I had to choose two other modules from the ´optional´ module list! In the Autumn semester there was 3 and Spring semester 2 modules to choose from (excluding dissertation options, which i cant do anyway, cos i want to do it in German and they dont allow us to do 2!) So i didnt actually choose in Spring and for Autumn, i knew one was a dead cert, but i could not choose between the 2 crappy leftover ones. There is a professor who is really boring and he teaches one of the Spring ones that i am doing, and i wasnt going to take his Autumn one as well, but the other one was a follow on module from one i did quite badly in last year, so i didnt choose it. Well, as long as i can stay awake in the boring man module i should pass, it looks interesting (as his modules always do), but he just makes even the most interesting of things dull. He has the same mannerisums as Tony Blair! GOD HELP ME!
However, ive just realised ive a bit of a tricky financial situation at the moment. I can live on R$170 for bare minimum (rent, food and bus money) which is 53 pounds / $106 a week. But only for 10 weeks. After that ive no idea what i am going to do, use my savings, or get my parents to help, but i have the whole week stressing about it, as i am here another 20 weeks and i actually want to travel around and see stuff! But i dont want to starve...
i go onto campus only two days a week and i stay there all day - which is helping with the low bus fares. I am going to put up posters to teach English and German on those days too, to get extra cash, and spend Tuesdays at home, doing my washing, studying, buying food at the supermarket, etc. Then spend my savings going away for long weekends. This is all, of course, as long as my Technical Vocal class is on a mon or wed. (the board says 4-6pm mon and i hope it stays at that time but you never know here, they are so disorganised)
In other news i completed my module form for final year Portuguese and was disgusted at my ´optional´ module choices. Portuguese language was compulsary and I had to choose two other modules from the ´optional´ module list! In the Autumn semester there was 3 and Spring semester 2 modules to choose from (excluding dissertation options, which i cant do anyway, cos i want to do it in German and they dont allow us to do 2!) So i didnt actually choose in Spring and for Autumn, i knew one was a dead cert, but i could not choose between the 2 crappy leftover ones. There is a professor who is really boring and he teaches one of the Spring ones that i am doing, and i wasnt going to take his Autumn one as well, but the other one was a follow on module from one i did quite badly in last year, so i didnt choose it. Well, as long as i can stay awake in the boring man module i should pass, it looks interesting (as his modules always do), but he just makes even the most interesting of things dull. He has the same mannerisums as Tony Blair! GOD HELP ME!