one kidney left...
so last night we were booking tickets for airlines and hostels and buses and such for our many excursions around europe. now i love to travel, so of course i'm like "oh, i want to go EVERYWHERE" so i start booking flights, and next thing i know i've spent 500$ or so just on airfares. curse you england for making everything so bloody expensive.
oh well. i know i'm complaining now, but i'd complain more if i went back without going anywhere exciting at all. although i'm rather peeved that we don't have any sort of fall break to travel europe like spring semseter studets do (they get a whole freaking month off) so we have to plan weekend trips to like venice. yeah, not enough time.
classes have started and besides the few bad apples (one really: my tutor for caribbean writing has the thickest indian accent ever and loves to mumble, so i never understand him. but he repeats everything about seven times before moving on in his lecture, so i get many chances to decipher his speech) i love english classes as opposed to american classes. first, in england they don't give out piddling homework assignments like worksheets and page long "reflections" to make sure you're doing to readings. they could care less if you do the readings they assigned. of course, if you don't read you're going to fail, but that's your own decision. two, the tutors (at least mine) don't have superiority complexes that "i'm the teacher and you're the student" that i've come across in several american profs. they're very chill and low-key. three, the whole environment is a lot less stifled than in america. at messiah, i would go to class and the prof would have an "agenda" to cover that day and if we didn't we'd ahve to "catch up" later because of some curriculum mandated for the course. in england, the profs don't mind if you go off on some tangent about your beliefs or just want to ramble about someting completely different (in prose class we talked for like half an hour about how nobody likes the room we're in). it's awesome.
another awesome thing about england on a completely different note: everyone listens to prodigy. everyone. along those same lines, everyone listens to exciting stuff. like, i would open up my shared music at messiah and everyone has basically the same thing. here, it's all different and all exciting. there's this one guy's playlist that is nothign but pure industrial. crazy. crazy awesome.
oh well. i know i'm complaining now, but i'd complain more if i went back without going anywhere exciting at all. although i'm rather peeved that we don't have any sort of fall break to travel europe like spring semseter studets do (they get a whole freaking month off) so we have to plan weekend trips to like venice. yeah, not enough time.
classes have started and besides the few bad apples (one really: my tutor for caribbean writing has the thickest indian accent ever and loves to mumble, so i never understand him. but he repeats everything about seven times before moving on in his lecture, so i get many chances to decipher his speech) i love english classes as opposed to american classes. first, in england they don't give out piddling homework assignments like worksheets and page long "reflections" to make sure you're doing to readings. they could care less if you do the readings they assigned. of course, if you don't read you're going to fail, but that's your own decision. two, the tutors (at least mine) don't have superiority complexes that "i'm the teacher and you're the student" that i've come across in several american profs. they're very chill and low-key. three, the whole environment is a lot less stifled than in america. at messiah, i would go to class and the prof would have an "agenda" to cover that day and if we didn't we'd ahve to "catch up" later because of some curriculum mandated for the course. in england, the profs don't mind if you go off on some tangent about your beliefs or just want to ramble about someting completely different (in prose class we talked for like half an hour about how nobody likes the room we're in). it's awesome.
another awesome thing about england on a completely different note: everyone listens to prodigy. everyone. along those same lines, everyone listens to exciting stuff. like, i would open up my shared music at messiah and everyone has basically the same thing. here, it's all different and all exciting. there's this one guy's playlist that is nothign but pure industrial. crazy. crazy awesome.