Then I ended the night with a drunken Skype call with Frida, lol!
The brain haemmorrhage (peach schnapps, baileys and grenadine) was weird!
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Saturday, November 3, 2012
Halloween drinks
Yesterday we went to King's Arms here in Berkhamsted and had a few drinks. Well...loads of drinks actually. I had white wine, beer, a daiquiri, a weird basil drink and a brain haemorrhage....
Then I ended the night with a drunken Skype call with Frida, lol!
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Then I ended the night with a drunken Skype call with Frida, lol!
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Friday, November 2, 2012
Good morning everyone!!
It is Friday and a work from home day for both me and Andy. Which means we have to try reeaaaally hard to actually do some work! But we've both got deadlines soon so it should be ok.
I've got an essay due next Thursday and I have some other assignments that I need to do before next week too. So better get started!
We'll be spending the weekend at home. Think we're going out for some drinks tonight. Monday is Guy Fawke's night/Bonfire night but the celebrations in Berkhamsted are tomorrow evening so we might go see the fireworks. Other than that we've planned to do a long walk in the woods and then some studying for me. We'll see what we actually have time for, somehow we always seem to plan way more than what we can actually manage to do.
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I've got an essay due next Thursday and I have some other assignments that I need to do before next week too. So better get started!
We'll be spending the weekend at home. Think we're going out for some drinks tonight. Monday is Guy Fawke's night/Bonfire night but the celebrations in Berkhamsted are tomorrow evening so we might go see the fireworks. Other than that we've planned to do a long walk in the woods and then some studying for me. We'll see what we actually have time for, somehow we always seem to plan way more than what we can actually manage to do.
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
My first first!
I got my Early American Literature paper back today and the mark said 70. I'm not very familiar with the grading system here but anything over 70% is a first, which is the highest grade! Yayyyy!
I copied this from some forum for those of you who are interested in how it works:
A first equates to the student having an average of over 70%
An upper second (2:1) is between 60% and 69%
A lower second (2:2) is between 50% and 59%
A third is between 40% and 49%
So I would've thought comparing it to the Bologna system (which we have in Sweden) would mean:
First=A
2.1=B
2.2=C
Third=D
Pass=E
But after talking to some english students during the break today I realized it doesn't really work like that. They said that basically anything under a 2.1 was not considered good. I think in Sweden being a C student is still pretty good so maybe I can't compare the grades as I have done.
Will have to investigate some more....
But right now I've still got 150 pages of A Picture of Dorian Gray left to read until tomorrow...
I copied this from some forum for those of you who are interested in how it works:
A first equates to the student having an average of over 70%
An upper second (2:1) is between 60% and 69%
A lower second (2:2) is between 50% and 59%
A third is between 40% and 49%
So I would've thought comparing it to the Bologna system (which we have in Sweden) would mean:
First=A
2.1=B
2.2=C
Third=D
Pass=E
But after talking to some english students during the break today I realized it doesn't really work like that. They said that basically anything under a 2.1 was not considered good. I think in Sweden being a C student is still pretty good so maybe I can't compare the grades as I have done.
Will have to investigate some more....
But right now I've still got 150 pages of A Picture of Dorian Gray left to read until tomorrow...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Last week
Ok, so last week passed in a blur. I had so much to do and so little time.
I have a serious problem when it comes to busy periods in my life: I cannot handle stress! At.all. I had so much to do last week that I pretty much had to write most of my short essay on the day of the deadline and I just can't function when it's like that. I just panic and think about how impossible it is and turn into a complete and utter psycho.
I had planned that I would get up early on Friday and just stay at home and do the writing but then Andy informed me that the plumber was coming on Friday to install a new boiler. Ok...we both thought it would be a quick job so I stayed at home. Ummm it really wasn't a quick job. They came in here and pretty much took over the whole apartment.
I then decided to go to the library, which turned out to be closed. So at 10 am I had no choice but to head out and take the train to uni. Now it takes me 1 & 1/2 hours to get there so I was not happy about this. I may have acted a little bit irrational and cried my eyes out when I realized how little time I had. Anyway, I started working around noon and could in fact leave uni at 5 and submit my paper...
The lesson here? CALM DOWN! It can be done.
After that stressful week of hell I did manage to have a lovely weekend. We went up north to Andy's parents and spent the weekend there. On Saturday we went for a walk in this huge park and then went out for indian food in the evening. On Sunday morning we had a full English breakfast. Now, I used to be a vegetarian so this is not really a favourite of mine. But I must say I'm getting used to it, I can even manage to squeeze down a sausage and a tiny piece of bacon these days *proud*!
I have a serious problem when it comes to busy periods in my life: I cannot handle stress! At.all. I had so much to do last week that I pretty much had to write most of my short essay on the day of the deadline and I just can't function when it's like that. I just panic and think about how impossible it is and turn into a complete and utter psycho.
I had planned that I would get up early on Friday and just stay at home and do the writing but then Andy informed me that the plumber was coming on Friday to install a new boiler. Ok...we both thought it would be a quick job so I stayed at home. Ummm it really wasn't a quick job. They came in here and pretty much took over the whole apartment.
I then decided to go to the library, which turned out to be closed. So at 10 am I had no choice but to head out and take the train to uni. Now it takes me 1 & 1/2 hours to get there so I was not happy about this. I may have acted a little bit irrational and cried my eyes out when I realized how little time I had. Anyway, I started working around noon and could in fact leave uni at 5 and submit my paper...
The lesson here? CALM DOWN! It can be done.
After that stressful week of hell I did manage to have a lovely weekend. We went up north to Andy's parents and spent the weekend there. On Saturday we went for a walk in this huge park and then went out for indian food in the evening. On Sunday morning we had a full English breakfast. Now, I used to be a vegetarian so this is not really a favourite of mine. But I must say I'm getting used to it, I can even manage to squeeze down a sausage and a tiny piece of bacon these days *proud*!
In the car
Almost looks like summer!
Marbury park
Budworth mere
Autumn
Andy with his parents
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Studying
Yes I know, boring photo! But, unfortunately this has to be my life for a while. I've realized I haven't been spending enough time doing uni work. At first I thought: reading novels? Piece of cake! But...reading novels takes time and there are no shortcuts.
So I will try to work 5 days a week and full days! And also some weekends will be necessary since I'm a little behind.
I've done good today! I was at uni at 9 and had a class 10-13. I'm leaving soon but with the commute I won't be home until 8.30. At least I can get some reading done on the train! :)
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So I will try to work 5 days a week and full days! And also some weekends will be necessary since I'm a little behind.
I've done good today! I was at uni at 9 and had a class 10-13. I'm leaving soon but with the commute I won't be home until 8.30. At least I can get some reading done on the train! :)
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