Visit from home

My wifey Mikaela is visiting me this weekend which is why there are no new blog posts. Will do better next week!


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What a day!

Just sat down after a long first day of normal life again! I had my first lecture today, then went to London to look for a book (with no luck), then came home, went for a run, had a shower, made lasagna, ate and read the 'Declaration of Independence' in preparation for tomorrows class. Phew!

Today's lecture was 'Early modern history'. It seems really interesting, but it also seems pretty hard. It is not easy to read 16th century poetry in English when you're not a native speaker! The teacher had us watch a clip with a speech from a Shakespeare play and we also got the text. We got to listen to it once and then she asked us to talk about the meaning and answer questions in groups.
Four out of six people in my group were Erasmus students and we all agreed we need more time to read the text to be able to answer the questions. I did get most of the language but it's just not easy to take it in when you have to look for hidden meanings etc. We spoke to the teacher and she said that normally we will read the texts at home first so it shouldn't be a problem, she also said we'll have more time to discuss in the future.
I felt a bit better after that, I did get a little worried there. I'm the type of person that needs time to think about texts even in Swedish so when it's 16th century poetry I definitely need more time. I have one week to change my courses but I'm thinking I won't change this one, hopefully it'll get easier!

So this is the reason I've read the Declaration of independence and tried to prepare a little for tomorrow's American literature class. Looking forward to that one, it was my number one choice!


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Rain

My plan was to go running today since its my last day off and the rest of the week will be busier, not doing it in this weather tho!



I was thinking I won't need a gym card as I can go running outside during the autumn, didn't really think about the rain tho.


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My new thing

-Crumpets



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Berko pub crawl

Yesterday we visited six of the local pubs. Two of them were really nice, two were real dumps and the last two were ok.



Favourite pub: The Three Horseshoes



The second best one: The White Horse

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Lol!!

We've watched all the episodes of the office now.



David Brent in the office



Andy in the office

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Blog design

I think the blog is a little hard to read at the moment, especially using an iPhone. I'll see if I can change the design over the weekend. I still haven't got a laptop but hopefully Andy will bring his work one home for the weekend.

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