So after a week of doing nothing in particular, things over here are about to get real. I've got my first real class this evening: Working in the UK and the EU. It's "intended to provide interns in the United Kingdom with an intellectual context and framework from which to understand their semester's experiences as employees in the British and, increasingly, European workplace." (That's word for word from the syllabus.) Even though it seems to explain itself right there on the page, I still have no idea what it's about. So I guess we'll have to see.
Also, my Arcadia email has been on the fritz for a while now, and it's only just gotten fixed today. This really really sucks, because I've been getting emails for the past few days detailing what homework and assignments will be due on my first day of class for my two writing classes. And now I'm behind. Boo. :(
I'm going to have to get down to business in order to catch up. Guess it's that time again. TIME TO MAKE A SCHEDULE!! At UW-Madison, I'm part of a scholarship program called the 'Chancellor's Scholars' and one thing we have to do every semester is make a schedule and send it in to our advisors so they can see what we're up to and that we're being active in our learning environments. In all honestly, most people just make it up and don't really follow it, but I find that just having a schedule will help me keep my life on track, even if I don't like them. Schedules, I find, are more "guidelines" or "suggestions" rather than rules. But I've talked about this in a previous post, which you can look up in the side bar, should you desire. In any case, I've really got to get cracking on homework and stuff. Until next time!
Cheers!
As a treat, here are a list of more odd and interesting things I've learned in London so far.
1) Watching soccer -excuse me- football games at pubs is really fun. Almost as fun as being in the stadium!
2) I live about a fifteen minute walk away from Chelsea stadium. Gotta get me some tickets for a game soon!
3) Drunk people repeat themselves a lot.
4) The London Underground isn't as confusing as most people think. Although you shouldn't let your guard down. There are a lot of renovation projects going on at all times, so when you least expect it, your stop will be closed and you'll be forced to take a different route home.
5) Everyone here is pretty fashion-forward. It makes me feel like I don't have enough clothes.
6) NO PUBLIC RESTROOMS! WTF? The other day I paid 50 pence to use a bathroom in the London Underground. Definitely a first for me.
7) Also, they don't say "bathroom" over here. Instead, they say "toilet."
8) Haven't heard anyone use "bloody hell" as a swear yet. I have heard someone say "wanker" though. It was an old guy in the pub at the football game.
9) There are no convenience stores similar to Walmart or Walgreens or Target over here. NO ONE SELLS THINGS LIKE WATER BOTTLES OR LAUNDRY BASKETS! For those types of things you have to go to a place called "Argos." It's a really odd place. What you do is page through a cataloge and each item has a corresponding number. You punch the number into a little keypad, which will tell you if that store has the item you want in stock. You jot down all the numbers of all the items you want, give it to a cashier, pay for them, and the cashier will go off somewhere (pretty sure they've got like, an extra dimension hidden somewhere in the back where they store all their products) and bring your items back. And then off you go! All this without ever wandering down an aisle or reaching to the back to get the most pristine "whatever." It was kind of odd, but also sort of cool.
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