Ok so last Thursday went out for tapas at el coto with Scott and Emmie - yum! I actually managed to forget I was in England - real, typical Spanish food, Spanish waiters, Spanish music :-) I didnt realise you could recreate Spain so well in Newcastle!!!
Friday night went down to Bath on the train - forgot my railcard so in total the return journey cost me 180 quid! :-( Was cousin Emma's wedding on Saturday - v nice - v international! England, New Zealand, Canada, US, Italy, Scotland and Ireland all represented. Nice Ceilidh in the evening, Sunday I stayed at A Anne and U Ian's before getting back to Newcastle at 3pm yesterday and going to bed for 3 hours instead of French interpreting. Last night Mary came round and cooked for us! I'm cooking on Friday night.
Tonight have another MLS committee meeting, followed by tandem night, then am planning on chilling for the rest of the week, catching up on uni work!
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
I hate final year!
Will post some photos once have finished this entry! Am SO fed up of being a student! Have so much work to do. Saying that, I still seem to be achieving a fairly decent social life one way or another!
Last tuesday night was the joint modlangsoc/erasmus soc 3 legged pubcrawl, from Mens Bar via the Goose and City Vaults to Blue Bambu. Last wednesday, went with John, Scott and Emmie to see the Counterfeiters at Tyneside. Last thursday was Scott and Emmie's leaving drinks, so went to Costa coffee and the Flatbread cafe for food before Bar Bacchus, and Friday was Rhys et al's 80s houseparty, before catching my 1 am saturday megabus down to London.
Arrived at 7am, entertained myself on the tube for quite a while heading out to Wimbledon and back and going the long way round the Circle line to Bond Street to keep warm, sit down and kill time/nap before meeting Angie at eleven for brunch in John lewis on Oxford Street. Then met Marie-Pierre and her friend in Trafalgar square, and we went to Yates' in Leicester Square for a proper lunch. Then headed out to Helen's at Maida Vale to dump my case and have a shower before heading to her friend's house for birthday drinks. We then went out to Zoo Bar (Leicester Square). Sunday, had a nice lie-ine and pancakes for brunch, then went to the Imperial War Museum (with Hels) before meeting her Italian friend from exchange in Canada for dinner somewhere near Leicester Square.
Caught my bus at 11.15pm, almost slept through my stop early on Monday morn, got backhome at 6.30 amd went to bed for 5 hours. Then headed out to northumberland park for Scott and Emmie's lessons before French liaison interpeting. Monday night stayed in and Anna cooked chilli con carne, yesterday had an 'audition' for a poss Salsa show in London next March with The Latin Connection/Salsa UK and went to TT for the 2nd time this term! Tonight was planning on going on the LBS film social but got cancelled and was meant to be at WHQ for Itchy Feet but so not going cos am ill. Tomorrow night, having Scott and Emmie's lesson in the pub over drinks (which I am paying for!) and Friday night, I head down to Bath for a cousin's wedding....
Last tuesday night was the joint modlangsoc/erasmus soc 3 legged pubcrawl, from Mens Bar via the Goose and City Vaults to Blue Bambu. Last wednesday, went with John, Scott and Emmie to see the Counterfeiters at Tyneside. Last thursday was Scott and Emmie's leaving drinks, so went to Costa coffee and the Flatbread cafe for food before Bar Bacchus, and Friday was Rhys et al's 80s houseparty, before catching my 1 am saturday megabus down to London.
Arrived at 7am, entertained myself on the tube for quite a while heading out to Wimbledon and back and going the long way round the Circle line to Bond Street to keep warm, sit down and kill time/nap before meeting Angie at eleven for brunch in John lewis on Oxford Street. Then met Marie-Pierre and her friend in Trafalgar square, and we went to Yates' in Leicester Square for a proper lunch. Then headed out to Helen's at Maida Vale to dump my case and have a shower before heading to her friend's house for birthday drinks. We then went out to Zoo Bar (Leicester Square). Sunday, had a nice lie-ine and pancakes for brunch, then went to the Imperial War Museum (with Hels) before meeting her Italian friend from exchange in Canada for dinner somewhere near Leicester Square.
Caught my bus at 11.15pm, almost slept through my stop early on Monday morn, got backhome at 6.30 amd went to bed for 5 hours. Then headed out to northumberland park for Scott and Emmie's lessons before French liaison interpeting. Monday night stayed in and Anna cooked chilli con carne, yesterday had an 'audition' for a poss Salsa show in London next March with The Latin Connection/Salsa UK and went to TT for the 2nd time this term! Tonight was planning on going on the LBS film social but got cancelled and was meant to be at WHQ for Itchy Feet but so not going cos am ill. Tomorrow night, having Scott and Emmie's lesson in the pub over drinks (which I am paying for!) and Friday night, I head down to Bath for a cousin's wedding....
Monday, November 12, 2007
Busy week
OMG Ive been in uni since 9.15 this morn (didnt have any lectures till 4) and Ive only just got in! Clock on this thing is wrong - its actually just after half 9. And I cant relax for the eve cos I have approx 4 hours worth of work to do. Rest of week is going to be the same I think before heading down to London again on fri on the OVERNIGHT bus and coming back again on sun on the OVERNIGHT bus!
Tomorrow night have to sort out how am going to combine my 4-5 lecture, hour and a half teaching out at Northumberland park (so add on an extra hour and a half in total for travel time), cooking, eating and showering and getting ready before the modern languages pub crawl at 9. Hmmmmm
Better get on with said work!
Tomorrow night have to sort out how am going to combine my 4-5 lecture, hour and a half teaching out at Northumberland park (so add on an extra hour and a half in total for travel time), cooking, eating and showering and getting ready before the modern languages pub crawl at 9. Hmmmmm
Better get on with said work!
Sunday, November 11, 2007
OMG! Presentation is already 20 slides and Im not even half way through the Goddamn text!!!! Taken me hours so far, how much longer will it take?!? I CANT WAIT for the xmas hols! Reading week wasnt much of a wind-down, with Emmie and Scott's lessons every evening, my SEL3010 lecture and seminar, SEL3010 *reading*, rapport de synthese and FRE4009 presentation!!!
Works seems manageable again!
So more or less fininshed rapport de synthese. Is over the word limit and v badly organised but content and language-wise, I think it's OK!
Just about to finish my French SLA presentation. Last night was fun, went sequence dancing with Simon at GDC. Was meant to be going into town afterwards for someone's birthday drinks at Secco's and Clear Bar but went to bed instead! Friday night after Black Swan had meant to be going to the jazz cafe or maybe Mango's.....just soooo tired atm!
Tonight am going to see Pink Martini - at the Sage - ON MY OWN - cos no one's heard of them! At some point this week I want to see the Counterfeiters at Tyneside - looks good, kinda like The Life of Others. So also on Friday I met up with Diane and Laure (French) AND John (Laure's tandem partner) for some francais-speaking. John is only 2nd year (only 19, bless him!) but he speaks really good French already!
Here is a story Emmie and I made up in Fridays lesson when practising the imperfect and preterite tenses. (We said one sentence each at a time!)
Five days ago, I was walking throught the park when I saw a cat. The cat was very strange because it was pink. It jumped over the gate and ran to a house at the other end of the park. I followed it and rang the doorbell. A one-legged pirate answered the door. I asked him why his cat was pink. He said it had eaten a poisonous pink flower. I asked him if I could have a pink flower, as I had a dog. He said that there had only been the one flower so it wasnt possible to turn my dog pink. The pirate asked me if i wanted to go for a coffee, so off we went round the corner to a nearby cafe. In the cafe there was a man standing in the middle, singing a song. He was singing very badly so all the windows broke. We decided we couldnt bear to stay there any longer, se we ran - slowly, of course, because of the one-legged pirate - back to the park. I looked up at the sky, and saw there was a slice of cheese flying through it. I also noticed there was a cow and a spoon following the slice of cheese and they jumped over the moon. The cow had been very naughty, though, so it fell out the sky to its death. Then the cat, the pirate and I decided it was time for a BBQ!!!
The end. See, languages are fun!
Just about to finish my French SLA presentation. Last night was fun, went sequence dancing with Simon at GDC. Was meant to be going into town afterwards for someone's birthday drinks at Secco's and Clear Bar but went to bed instead! Friday night after Black Swan had meant to be going to the jazz cafe or maybe Mango's.....just soooo tired atm!
Tonight am going to see Pink Martini - at the Sage - ON MY OWN - cos no one's heard of them! At some point this week I want to see the Counterfeiters at Tyneside - looks good, kinda like The Life of Others. So also on Friday I met up with Diane and Laure (French) AND John (Laure's tandem partner) for some francais-speaking. John is only 2nd year (only 19, bless him!) but he speaks really good French already!
Here is a story Emmie and I made up in Fridays lesson when practising the imperfect and preterite tenses. (We said one sentence each at a time!)
Five days ago, I was walking throught the park when I saw a cat. The cat was very strange because it was pink. It jumped over the gate and ran to a house at the other end of the park. I followed it and rang the doorbell. A one-legged pirate answered the door. I asked him why his cat was pink. He said it had eaten a poisonous pink flower. I asked him if I could have a pink flower, as I had a dog. He said that there had only been the one flower so it wasnt possible to turn my dog pink. The pirate asked me if i wanted to go for a coffee, so off we went round the corner to a nearby cafe. In the cafe there was a man standing in the middle, singing a song. He was singing very badly so all the windows broke. We decided we couldnt bear to stay there any longer, se we ran - slowly, of course, because of the one-legged pirate - back to the park. I looked up at the sky, and saw there was a slice of cheese flying through it. I also noticed there was a cow and a spoon following the slice of cheese and they jumped over the moon. The cow had been very naughty, though, so it fell out the sky to its death. Then the cat, the pirate and I decided it was time for a BBQ!!!
The end. See, languages are fun!
Saturday, November 10, 2007
How does a dirty pile of plates grow so quickly?!?
Gave up doing work yesterday as wasnt really achieving anything worthwhile - got stuck on my French report after 119 words....
So I really AM a lucky girl! On Thursday, Scott and Emmie gave me £30 to cover my metro costs for the remining 2 and a bit weeks theyre having lessons for, as I said in an earlier post I think. Their landlady came round to show people the house that evening so we tootled off to the pub for our lessons instead where they of course bought me a drink. Then they took me out to dinner at Zonzos afterwards...and paid!!! I had a Marguerita as my aperitif (not sure how you spell that), duck pancakes in cherry compote for starter and linguine with mussels for main, as well as the rosemary flatbread we shared before the starters came. AND they dropped me home afterwards, and last night they rounded up to £130 in cash when paying me for my 5 days of lessons for that week! Man, they REALLY want to learn Spanish!
Hmmmm so last night I went to the Black Swan (my first night out of the week) and voila that is my week!
So I really AM a lucky girl! On Thursday, Scott and Emmie gave me £30 to cover my metro costs for the remining 2 and a bit weeks theyre having lessons for, as I said in an earlier post I think. Their landlady came round to show people the house that evening so we tootled off to the pub for our lessons instead where they of course bought me a drink. Then they took me out to dinner at Zonzos afterwards...and paid!!! I had a Marguerita as my aperitif (not sure how you spell that), duck pancakes in cherry compote for starter and linguine with mussels for main, as well as the rosemary flatbread we shared before the starters came. AND they dropped me home afterwards, and last night they rounded up to £130 in cash when paying me for my 5 days of lessons for that week! Man, they REALLY want to learn Spanish!
Hmmmm so last night I went to the Black Swan (my first night out of the week) and voila that is my week!
Friday, November 9, 2007
Stressed
I am STRESSED and its barely half way through semester 1.
Boo hoo, have a rapport de synthese to finish today (and realising have actually forgotten how to write a report in French) tomorrow need to do my presentation for FRE4009, sunday will be spent reading reading reading reading stupid texts on socioeconomic factors surrounding something dull for linguistics.
At some point before xmas need to get some applications underway for graduate training schemes. Ruling out T&I at Bath for the time being, too expensive and want to earn some money. KPMG, jjFOX, GCHQ, Hotel Management, Human Resources...all sortsof schemes could apply for. Dont know where to start, and they all take time and I do not have time to write that many cover letters at the moment. Concentrating too much on this whole stupid careers thing, when really should maybe ignore it for a while and study! Ruled out travellers worldwide, international management, GDL....so basically is a choice between a job of any kind working for a travel company, T&I or a training scheme. Why cant I be one of those people who knows she def wants to be a teacher and so only need look at PGCEs? I want to have something def sorted by the end of the year, as I dont wanna be one of those people who moves back home and bums around for months, doing a bit of temping and then finally gets a job 6 months after graduation.
Have no time. The one thing I really LIKE doing and keeps me sane is dancing but I don't have time for that atm, what with Scott & Emmie's lessons every eve for the next 2 weeks, modlangsoc socials and uni work.
Have to do more interpreting practice for French & Spanish, need to get my second rapport de synthese and prep for the simulations in before Christmas, have annoyingly long texts to translate for Spanish each week. After Christmas I have 2 interpreting exams, a horrible World Englishes exam which I am never going to have enough time to revise for becuase the tutor insists on giving us insane amounts of *essential* reading, and an essay for French SLA (do not get me started on that!)
I have never had this much trouble balancing 6 modules! Have I chosen really horrible ones or what? Thankfully the 2 modules I have all the reading for will be over in January! Bring on Modern French Literature (oh God that's gonna be even more reading!) and History & Syntax of Spanish!
*stress* *stress* *stress* and living with 4 artists who have all the time in the world to stay up late chatting and generally doing nothing productive, and making me feel extra swotty and left out doesnt help.
Boo hoo, have a rapport de synthese to finish today (and realising have actually forgotten how to write a report in French) tomorrow need to do my presentation for FRE4009, sunday will be spent reading reading reading reading stupid texts on socioeconomic factors surrounding something dull for linguistics.
At some point before xmas need to get some applications underway for graduate training schemes. Ruling out T&I at Bath for the time being, too expensive and want to earn some money. KPMG, jjFOX, GCHQ, Hotel Management, Human Resources...all sortsof schemes could apply for. Dont know where to start, and they all take time and I do not have time to write that many cover letters at the moment. Concentrating too much on this whole stupid careers thing, when really should maybe ignore it for a while and study! Ruled out travellers worldwide, international management, GDL....so basically is a choice between a job of any kind working for a travel company, T&I or a training scheme. Why cant I be one of those people who knows she def wants to be a teacher and so only need look at PGCEs? I want to have something def sorted by the end of the year, as I dont wanna be one of those people who moves back home and bums around for months, doing a bit of temping and then finally gets a job 6 months after graduation.
Have no time. The one thing I really LIKE doing and keeps me sane is dancing but I don't have time for that atm, what with Scott & Emmie's lessons every eve for the next 2 weeks, modlangsoc socials and uni work.
Have to do more interpreting practice for French & Spanish, need to get my second rapport de synthese and prep for the simulations in before Christmas, have annoyingly long texts to translate for Spanish each week. After Christmas I have 2 interpreting exams, a horrible World Englishes exam which I am never going to have enough time to revise for becuase the tutor insists on giving us insane amounts of *essential* reading, and an essay for French SLA (do not get me started on that!)
I have never had this much trouble balancing 6 modules! Have I chosen really horrible ones or what? Thankfully the 2 modules I have all the reading for will be over in January! Bring on Modern French Literature (oh God that's gonna be even more reading!) and History & Syntax of Spanish!
*stress* *stress* *stress* and living with 4 artists who have all the time in the world to stay up late chatting and generally doing nothing productive, and making me feel extra swotty and left out doesnt help.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Putting off preparing second presentation
Hmmmm.....Universal Grammar in the Second Language Acquisition of French
22 page text this time by Roger Hawkins of the University of Essex from the Journal of French Language Studies. A girl in my seminar group who is also doing her pres the same week as mine (next week) on the Dewaele texr is coming round later cos she doesnt know how to use Powerpoint. Shock horror! Such an essential transferrable skill these days!
Have had a v unproductive few days. Had 3 lessons with Scott and Emmie, 4th tonight. Going to their leaving drinks next thurs. Didnt make it to TT on tues night as faffed all day and so didnt do much reading. Tonight was gonna go to L&B but realised just how big the pile of pages is that I have to read for next week along side doing my rapport de synthese and my presentation. Grrrrrr. So so far, I've been in every night this week! Although Monday night at least I had a yummy chicken jalfrezi for company. Tomorrow night I WILL be at the Black Swan. Now I WILL do some reading for my presentation! Just finally finished the washing up
22 page text this time by Roger Hawkins of the University of Essex from the Journal of French Language Studies. A girl in my seminar group who is also doing her pres the same week as mine (next week) on the Dewaele texr is coming round later cos she doesnt know how to use Powerpoint. Shock horror! Such an essential transferrable skill these days!
Have had a v unproductive few days. Had 3 lessons with Scott and Emmie, 4th tonight. Going to their leaving drinks next thurs. Didnt make it to TT on tues night as faffed all day and so didnt do much reading. Tonight was gonna go to L&B but realised just how big the pile of pages is that I have to read for next week along side doing my rapport de synthese and my presentation. Grrrrrr. So so far, I've been in every night this week! Although Monday night at least I had a yummy chicken jalfrezi for company. Tomorrow night I WILL be at the Black Swan. Now I WILL do some reading for my presentation! Just finally finished the washing up
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Is it Tuesday today?
Errr yes.
Well yest I attempted to plan for my first Spanish lessons with this couple. Turns out I didnt really need to anyway,as we just played it by ear. The husband (Scott) knows nothing, so I taught him basic greetings, and a few numbers (he has half hour lessons)and the wife (Emmie) has hour lesson. She actually lived in Spain for 18 months about 3 years ago - and she did it for GCSE, so she s pretty good - just a little rusty and in need of a bit of a brush-up.
So basically we just did general convo for an hour! Went over the colours cos she couldnt remember all of them, talked about her job, her family, where she'd grown up (lots of places - and she s still only just turned 25) what she d done in Spain, what she s GOING to do in Spain, how she was as a teenager....all sorts of random things! Today taught Scott some more numbers, revised yesterday's stuff and taught him the months of the year. Ironically, planning for them is FAR easier than planning English lessons in GC last year! The level of their Spanish is one I can easily manage to bullshit my way through without having to spend hours planning.
They move out on 26th November, I started yesterday and will give them lessons 5 days a week until 23rd November (3 weeks in total) making it £337.50 I'm earning in total for an hour and a half each day at £15 hour. Plus, Emmie is going to give me £30 to buy a month's metro pass to cover my travel cost out to theirs at Northumberland Park each day AND yesterday they offered me a beer and another one if I wanted, today I got a beer and a cosmopolitan!!!!! How lucky am I?!?
Yesterday there was a talk from KPMG at uni called 'Business fo linguists'. Their 3 year european grad training sounds good so think Ill go for that. Today there was a talk from the College of Law about the GDL, have decided am NOT going for that. Ruled one thing out at last! Also have decided that the travellers worlwide thing is too expensive not to be getting anything financial back in return so so far, KPMG is the most promising!
Went to the careers service today to get my CV checked, so I now have a professional, approved, employable CV!
Will get some photos fo London here in the next entry!
Well yest I attempted to plan for my first Spanish lessons with this couple. Turns out I didnt really need to anyway,as we just played it by ear. The husband (Scott) knows nothing, so I taught him basic greetings, and a few numbers (he has half hour lessons)and the wife (Emmie) has hour lesson. She actually lived in Spain for 18 months about 3 years ago - and she did it for GCSE, so she s pretty good - just a little rusty and in need of a bit of a brush-up.
So basically we just did general convo for an hour! Went over the colours cos she couldnt remember all of them, talked about her job, her family, where she'd grown up (lots of places - and she s still only just turned 25) what she d done in Spain, what she s GOING to do in Spain, how she was as a teenager....all sorts of random things! Today taught Scott some more numbers, revised yesterday's stuff and taught him the months of the year. Ironically, planning for them is FAR easier than planning English lessons in GC last year! The level of their Spanish is one I can easily manage to bullshit my way through without having to spend hours planning.
They move out on 26th November, I started yesterday and will give them lessons 5 days a week until 23rd November (3 weeks in total) making it £337.50 I'm earning in total for an hour and a half each day at £15 hour. Plus, Emmie is going to give me £30 to buy a month's metro pass to cover my travel cost out to theirs at Northumberland Park each day AND yesterday they offered me a beer and another one if I wanted, today I got a beer and a cosmopolitan!!!!! How lucky am I?!?
Yesterday there was a talk from KPMG at uni called 'Business fo linguists'. Their 3 year european grad training sounds good so think Ill go for that. Today there was a talk from the College of Law about the GDL, have decided am NOT going for that. Ruled one thing out at last! Also have decided that the travellers worlwide thing is too expensive not to be getting anything financial back in return so so far, KPMG is the most promising!
Went to the careers service today to get my CV checked, so I now have a professional, approved, employable CV!
Will get some photos fo London here in the next entry!
Monday, November 5, 2007
London
Got back from London just before 6 this morn, slept till about quarter to one!
So arrived at Victoria Coach Station at 7.20am on Sat morn. One way or another Kate and I didnt manage to get to the hostel till about half 9ish - instructions from tube station were rubbish and it was further than we thought so caught the 381 bus. Dropped off our stuff and tubed over to Olympia for 11. Went to the '12 question to unlock a foreign culture' 'Wine and language learning' and 'Spanish fiestas' talks (missed out on the yummy 'talian feast' one) Had a panino for lunch in a nearby cafe. Visited most of the stalls - language schools, translating companies, educational booksellers, TEFL institutions etc and around half 4 ish we caught our 4 tubes back to the hostel. Went to Chinatown for tea and then were supposed to be meeting Rhys Darryl Ruth and poss someone else for drinks round oxford circus. We went to The Argyll Arms and since the others hadnt turned up by midnight when we got kicked out, we were so tired and in need of a comfy bed and a decent no of hours sleep that we just went back to the hostel.
Up at half 8 yesterday morn to catch the end of breakfast (Kate left on the 9am bus so I was on my own). Headed to Olympia for the 10.45 talk on travel, working and abroad and using your langugaes from some guy from the lonely planet. Rhys et al apparently left on a bus around 4 but I didnt see them at all yesterday anyway. Entertained myself revisiting a few stalls and left there about one to find some lunch (jacket potato with chicken curry in a cafe just round the corner - yum!) Reasonably priced as well, I thought - for Kensington!
Headed back to hostel for a quick internet session before reading through the ridiculous amount of papers Id acquired over the last 24 hours and chucking away the pointless ones, while sat in the cafe/bar bit of the Hostel. Then decided to brave the sun avo tubes so briefly visited Westminster, Sloane Square, Hyde Park Corner (where got a dodgy cheesburger from a stand) Covent Garden (where got an 'award winning' cornish pasty for my early tea!) Walked from there to Piccadilly circus to catch the tube via a brief stop at London Bridge back to the hostel. En route around half 6 ish I got a text from Tony inviting me out dancing for an hour before my megabus. Given had been trying all weekend to get hold of him to no avail I was peeved to be receiving news on my way back to the hostel fo the day! Decided I could not face more tubes back into the centre to go for food with him as his later voicemail suggested before finding some scary London Salsa club. Didnt want to lug my case around any more than I had to, and Id already eaten anyway! So settled for a beer in the hostel bar while reading Simon's manuscript - hilarious!!!! Around quarter to ten I left hostel to navigate my way to the bus station, assuring Tony via Facebook as I had no credit that I would go dancing in 2 weeks time (Sun 18th) when I will also be in London!
So, yeah, this time I didnt manage to see Tony, Angie, Rui or Hels - so have to see them all in 2 weeks plus Mrie-Pierre!
So arrived at Victoria Coach Station at 7.20am on Sat morn. One way or another Kate and I didnt manage to get to the hostel till about half 9ish - instructions from tube station were rubbish and it was further than we thought so caught the 381 bus. Dropped off our stuff and tubed over to Olympia for 11. Went to the '12 question to unlock a foreign culture' 'Wine and language learning' and 'Spanish fiestas' talks (missed out on the yummy 'talian feast' one) Had a panino for lunch in a nearby cafe. Visited most of the stalls - language schools, translating companies, educational booksellers, TEFL institutions etc and around half 4 ish we caught our 4 tubes back to the hostel. Went to Chinatown for tea and then were supposed to be meeting Rhys Darryl Ruth and poss someone else for drinks round oxford circus. We went to The Argyll Arms and since the others hadnt turned up by midnight when we got kicked out, we were so tired and in need of a comfy bed and a decent no of hours sleep that we just went back to the hostel.
Up at half 8 yesterday morn to catch the end of breakfast (Kate left on the 9am bus so I was on my own). Headed to Olympia for the 10.45 talk on travel, working and abroad and using your langugaes from some guy from the lonely planet. Rhys et al apparently left on a bus around 4 but I didnt see them at all yesterday anyway. Entertained myself revisiting a few stalls and left there about one to find some lunch (jacket potato with chicken curry in a cafe just round the corner - yum!) Reasonably priced as well, I thought - for Kensington!
Headed back to hostel for a quick internet session before reading through the ridiculous amount of papers Id acquired over the last 24 hours and chucking away the pointless ones, while sat in the cafe/bar bit of the Hostel. Then decided to brave the sun avo tubes so briefly visited Westminster, Sloane Square, Hyde Park Corner (where got a dodgy cheesburger from a stand) Covent Garden (where got an 'award winning' cornish pasty for my early tea!) Walked from there to Piccadilly circus to catch the tube via a brief stop at London Bridge back to the hostel. En route around half 6 ish I got a text from Tony inviting me out dancing for an hour before my megabus. Given had been trying all weekend to get hold of him to no avail I was peeved to be receiving news on my way back to the hostel fo the day! Decided I could not face more tubes back into the centre to go for food with him as his later voicemail suggested before finding some scary London Salsa club. Didnt want to lug my case around any more than I had to, and Id already eaten anyway! So settled for a beer in the hostel bar while reading Simon's manuscript - hilarious!!!! Around quarter to ten I left hostel to navigate my way to the bus station, assuring Tony via Facebook as I had no credit that I would go dancing in 2 weeks time (Sun 18th) when I will also be in London!
So, yeah, this time I didnt manage to see Tony, Angie, Rui or Hels - so have to see them all in 2 weeks plus Mrie-Pierre!
Friday, November 2, 2007
Where the hell is my left slipper?!?
My left slipper went walkies on tuesday morning and has not, as yet, been found. Our house is not THAT big...
Hmmmm In a few hours am off to London for the language show on the 1.15am megabus, arriving at Victoria Coach station at 7.30am. Staying at one of London's one YHA with the ONE member interested tomo night, while Pres and Social sec (the only other committee members of 13) stay with friends as far as I can gather. Hmph. They are already there, went down on megabus this avo (I had spanish interpreting till 5)
Anyways, Monday night I went to WHQ for the Oxjam make poverty history night, tuesday night I did not go to L&B salsa class, Tiger Tiger or Modlangsoc tandem quiz night. I stayed in and pretended to do work - planning of my next 2 weeks' intensive private spanish classes to a married couple who move out to Spain at the end of November; and a bit of spanish translation for the Tudor House museum brochure.
Wednesday night was the Modlangsoc Halloween party at Venue, starting in the Hancock and last night I met up briefly with my tutees for the next 2 weeks for a meet-and-greet over starbucks coffee before going to intermediate L&B class and not really dancing.
Leave London on the 23.15 megabus on sun night, arriving back in Newc at 5.30 Monday morning (is reading week next week thank God!) Hopefully will get to meet up with Hels, Rui, Tony and Ange before then in between careers fairs, conferencees, seminars, and hostelling.
Not really much else to say!
Hmmmm In a few hours am off to London for the language show on the 1.15am megabus, arriving at Victoria Coach station at 7.30am. Staying at one of London's one YHA with the ONE member interested tomo night, while Pres and Social sec (the only other committee members of 13) stay with friends as far as I can gather. Hmph. They are already there, went down on megabus this avo (I had spanish interpreting till 5)
Anyways, Monday night I went to WHQ for the Oxjam make poverty history night, tuesday night I did not go to L&B salsa class, Tiger Tiger or Modlangsoc tandem quiz night. I stayed in and pretended to do work - planning of my next 2 weeks' intensive private spanish classes to a married couple who move out to Spain at the end of November; and a bit of spanish translation for the Tudor House museum brochure.
Wednesday night was the Modlangsoc Halloween party at Venue, starting in the Hancock and last night I met up briefly with my tutees for the next 2 weeks for a meet-and-greet over starbucks coffee before going to intermediate L&B class and not really dancing.
Leave London on the 23.15 megabus on sun night, arriving back in Newc at 5.30 Monday morning (is reading week next week thank God!) Hopefully will get to meet up with Hels, Rui, Tony and Ange before then in between careers fairs, conferencees, seminars, and hostelling.
Not really much else to say!
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