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Well, its Christmas, and therefore the time to do the random things you never get round to until Christmas.
Like writing in your journal, for example.
I've been at the University of Aberdeen for an entire semester now, and there's just two weeks before I have to think about getting an unreliable virgin train home to scaffy old Leeds, and I can honestly say that I'm bored rigid. I live at Hillhead, a sortof massive student village all centred around a small bar called "The Watering Hole" in which we get muchos drunk every second night and more. However, its all starting to get a bit old. I have no money for alcohol. I haven't had any money for alcohol in weeks, which is worrying as its gotten to the point where a glass of cheap red leaves me practically falling over in the flat corridor.
Anyway...Off the subject of my alcohol level...I've been studying English, History and Italian this term. (I just picked out a random language thinking it would be simple) and so far I've managed with the english and history but am getting warning e-mails from the language department threatening me over the fact that I've been to none of my assessed lessons for two weeks and haven't handed my coursework in. Whoops. It all boils down to the fact that if I was confronted by my Italian teacher in a burning building, I would happily watch while good ol' Liberata turned all black and crispy. The woman is EVIL. I don't always think she knows what she's saying when she's insulting you in front of the entire class and making you feel tiny, but thats no excuse. It was getting to the point where I was too scared to speak Italian in front of other people, so what was the point? I just have to explain all of this much more pleasantly to my advisor.
I'm majoring in English though, so I aren't too worried. English, or "Essentials of Literature" as it has been this semester, has been very boring. In Scotland you can finish your Highers, the equivalent of 'a' levels in one year, and go to uni at 17, so first year here is sortof preperation, as Highers are pretty much 'AS' standard, and first year A2 standard. Therefore, this has been a bit..Boring. Not very challenging maybe. However it has led me to realise that I hate Brecht, Shakespeare's sonnets and Greek tragedy...But love Ibsen's Norwegian domestic drama. History is probably my favourite subject. We've been studying "Vikings, Gaels and Normans" and they don't even know that much about it themselves. I love Dr. Pederson's lectures, he just talks about his native Denmark and how much he loves it for an entire hour, and how civilisation practically started there..Zzz. Oh, and some sexual innuendo, just for good measure.
The people here aren't as friendly as in Leeds, unless they 're foreign, and then they're usually fun. I have French, German, Japenese, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Indonesian, South African, Pakistani, Icelandic, Irish and American friends. Its kindof odd sometimes on the language front.
I live in a flat with six other girls and a couple of guys who've sortof moved in. Some of them scare me.
That made me tired. I should update more regularly.
Like writing in your journal, for example.
I've been at the University of Aberdeen for an entire semester now, and there's just two weeks before I have to think about getting an unreliable virgin train home to scaffy old Leeds, and I can honestly say that I'm bored rigid. I live at Hillhead, a sortof massive student village all centred around a small bar called "The Watering Hole" in which we get muchos drunk every second night and more. However, its all starting to get a bit old. I have no money for alcohol. I haven't had any money for alcohol in weeks, which is worrying as its gotten to the point where a glass of cheap red leaves me practically falling over in the flat corridor.
Anyway...Off the subject of my alcohol level...I've been studying English, History and Italian this term. (I just picked out a random language thinking it would be simple) and so far I've managed with the english and history but am getting warning e-mails from the language department threatening me over the fact that I've been to none of my assessed lessons for two weeks and haven't handed my coursework in. Whoops. It all boils down to the fact that if I was confronted by my Italian teacher in a burning building, I would happily watch while good ol' Liberata turned all black and crispy. The woman is EVIL. I don't always think she knows what she's saying when she's insulting you in front of the entire class and making you feel tiny, but thats no excuse. It was getting to the point where I was too scared to speak Italian in front of other people, so what was the point? I just have to explain all of this much more pleasantly to my advisor.
I'm majoring in English though, so I aren't too worried. English, or "Essentials of Literature" as it has been this semester, has been very boring. In Scotland you can finish your Highers, the equivalent of 'a' levels in one year, and go to uni at 17, so first year here is sortof preperation, as Highers are pretty much 'AS' standard, and first year A2 standard. Therefore, this has been a bit..Boring. Not very challenging maybe. However it has led me to realise that I hate Brecht, Shakespeare's sonnets and Greek tragedy...But love Ibsen's Norwegian domestic drama. History is probably my favourite subject. We've been studying "Vikings, Gaels and Normans" and they don't even know that much about it themselves. I love Dr. Pederson's lectures, he just talks about his native Denmark and how much he loves it for an entire hour, and how civilisation practically started there..Zzz. Oh, and some sexual innuendo, just for good measure.
The people here aren't as friendly as in Leeds, unless they 're foreign, and then they're usually fun. I have French, German, Japenese, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Indonesian, South African, Pakistani, Icelandic, Irish and American friends. Its kindof odd sometimes on the language front.
I live in a flat with six other girls and a couple of guys who've sortof moved in. Some of them scare me.
That made me tired. I should update more regularly.