Its all go

Tuesday 2nd October:

I don't have much time so I'll try and type this as quickly as I can. I have to go and do aerobics, finish some German Language hw and start reading about phonetics and phonology for Linguistics. I may be back tomorrow as its my day off, but I have some hw for German Culture to do online.

Sunday was boring. Basically I spent half of the afternoon wandering around the campus with my Translation friend Becki trying to find someone who might be able to help us with our timetables. As it was a Sunday everyone gave us funny looks and of course no one was around. Stayed in in the evening cos I needed to economise and save money. (Only buy the essential food, otherwise make do with what you've got. In my case, 2 bowls of cereal per day.)

Yesterday was really hectic. Got up at half 7 as I had to sort my timetable out at 9 in case I missed any lectures. Finally found Mingjing Jia who does the timetables and she said that they'd changed the system this year. Even though my modules are core, they failed to update. Then she told me I'd have to hand write it all out whilst I waited for it to go online. Bahhhhh. That was a lot of fun.

My first lecture was a 2 hour lecture at 11: Introduction to Basic Translation. The tutor noticed me straight away cos I was wearing a German t-shirt which said "Heirate mich." (Marry me, a song by Rammstein.) That lecture was quite interesting. I got homework to translate a few sentences. I've done it.

Then at 2 I had German Language Skills. That was great fun and I really enjoyed doing the worksheets and getting back into the swing of it. The tutor was also loely, and she's picked up the vibe that I'm a languages enthusiast. I don't know whether that's good or bad cos she offered me extra work.

At 4 I had Intro to German Culture but Susie the tutor never turned up so we left. I now have hw to catch up on but I'll do that tomorrow.

The worst lecture of the day was Academic Study Skills. at 6-7pm. Its a course which teaches you how to study and which helps you, but you have to do coursework and an exam in it. So if you think you're going to uni to do a course you enjoy, and that you can get out of boring stuff, you can't I'm sorry to say. We all hate it.

Sleep was tough last night as pretty much all of my flatmates were drunk and I heard banging. I think they had a football in there.

This morning I had Intro to Linguistics. Really, really gruelling lecture. Funny tutor, but he did make me a bit confused, as it wasn't much to do with langs. He compared langs to the eye and went on about that for a while, and then said something about the side effects of viagra. I have to read a huge chapter in a book about phonetics and phonology to do a dissertation style essay soon. I'm starting the book tonight, but I have no clue as to how to do a dissertation essay. He said most of us would fail.

Got my timetable finally, and discovered that some classes I'd been to were on other days (I should've gone to German Language today instead of yesterday) and that I have an Intermediate German test for 2 hours on Thursday. ARGH. Hopefully it'll be fun, as I did one today in German Language and I loved it. As a result, Elizabeth, my tutor, has promoted me to german grammar motivator for the class. Nice.

M'off now. Need to go and do those things I mentioned above.