Thanks to an unexisting internet connection, I can't regularly post a blog entry. So, take a seat and enjoy...
Back to Friday evening... We eventually didn't go to the party, because we were too tired. Staying at home and doing nothing much of interest turned out to be a good choice! Our weekend was also kind of relaxed: walking a round in Old Riga, getting a fine for not having paid whilst using public transport anyways, going to a party, watching a movie, doing the laundy, accompanying Saskia to church, watching a 'ter land, ter zee en in de lucht-wannabe' near the Radisson SAS hotel organised by Red Bull and of course taking a nice hot bath and sleeping!
Big day on Monday: first day of school. Latvians seem to have a nice tradition on the first day of school, because all students of elementary and secondary school bring flowers for their teacher. Anyhow, we had our first lecture: Political Economy. The teacher is a Latvian who emigrated to Brasil and came back eventually. His English is quite funny Could you please make silent? but it is understandable and he seems like an interesting guy. Reverse side of the medal: 9 small essays of 500 words each and 1 final essay of 3500 words. Of course there is also a midterm and a final exam... Luckily, the subject is spread over 3 modules.
We arrived in hell, without a doubt! Our theory of gaining more credits than necessary, turns out to be a complete disaster! We would now be excited by gaining only 25,5 credits :)
Tuesday: Political and Economic Anthropology. Nice teacher, but speaks too slow in English. Subject is very interesting, but of course he also expects several essays of 3 pages and a final exam. This subject is luckily also spread over 3 modules.
Wednesday: Foreign Political Analysis. Interesting subject and teacher. Reverse side: 4 essays of 6-8 pages, 1 final essay of 3500 words and 1 final exam. This all in ONE month only! We also had our first Latvian lesson... teacher is great but the language is very difficult!
This is worse than hell! Writing several essays per week and reading a lot of different texts for each subject: AAAAAAH! People saying erasmus is partying and relaxing: come and see us at Riga Stradins University! We would be glad to have some free time left over... (and no, we are not exaggerating!)
Thursday: We didn't have a lecture, so we spent our time reading... Our first essay is due on Monday, so we'd better hurry up a little.
Today we had another 3 hours of Latvian. We have already learnt quite a bit... Sveiki! Mani sauc Ellen. Kāds ir tavs vārds? Man iet ļoti labi. Get it? Now I will try to make a start on my essay for Foreign Policy Analysis...
This is it for now. If you want to cheer me up: leave a message or give me call (zuz, you made my day yesterday by calling!) I'll need it :D
Can't wait until January... holidays! Oh, we'll finally have internet on Monday! First see, then believe! Our stove is also broken... we can't cook anything for the moment... Nice erasmus... it keeps getting better...
Back to Friday evening... We eventually didn't go to the party, because we were too tired. Staying at home and doing nothing much of interest turned out to be a good choice! Our weekend was also kind of relaxed: walking a round in Old Riga, getting a fine for not having paid whilst using public transport anyways, going to a party, watching a movie, doing the laundy, accompanying Saskia to church, watching a 'ter land, ter zee en in de lucht-wannabe' near the Radisson SAS hotel organised by Red Bull and of course taking a nice hot bath and sleeping!
Big day on Monday: first day of school. Latvians seem to have a nice tradition on the first day of school, because all students of elementary and secondary school bring flowers for their teacher. Anyhow, we had our first lecture: Political Economy. The teacher is a Latvian who emigrated to Brasil and came back eventually. His English is quite funny Could you please make silent? but it is understandable and he seems like an interesting guy. Reverse side of the medal: 9 small essays of 500 words each and 1 final essay of 3500 words. Of course there is also a midterm and a final exam... Luckily, the subject is spread over 3 modules.
We arrived in hell, without a doubt! Our theory of gaining more credits than necessary, turns out to be a complete disaster! We would now be excited by gaining only 25,5 credits :)
Tuesday: Political and Economic Anthropology. Nice teacher, but speaks too slow in English. Subject is very interesting, but of course he also expects several essays of 3 pages and a final exam. This subject is luckily also spread over 3 modules.
Wednesday: Foreign Political Analysis. Interesting subject and teacher. Reverse side: 4 essays of 6-8 pages, 1 final essay of 3500 words and 1 final exam. This all in ONE month only! We also had our first Latvian lesson... teacher is great but the language is very difficult!
This is worse than hell! Writing several essays per week and reading a lot of different texts for each subject: AAAAAAH! People saying erasmus is partying and relaxing: come and see us at Riga Stradins University! We would be glad to have some free time left over... (and no, we are not exaggerating!)
Thursday: We didn't have a lecture, so we spent our time reading... Our first essay is due on Monday, so we'd better hurry up a little.
Today we had another 3 hours of Latvian. We have already learnt quite a bit... Sveiki! Mani sauc Ellen. Kāds ir tavs vārds? Man iet ļoti labi. Get it? Now I will try to make a start on my essay for Foreign Policy Analysis...
This is it for now. If you want to cheer me up: leave a message or give me call (zuz, you made my day yesterday by calling!) I'll need it :D
Can't wait until January... holidays! Oh, we'll finally have internet on Monday! First see, then believe! Our stove is also broken... we can't cook anything for the moment... Nice erasmus... it keeps getting better...
4 opmerkingen:
Amai, jullie gaan jullie werk hebben zo te zien. Desnoods laat je maar een paar papers aan de kant liggen. Als je er uiteindelijk maar door bent, en daar twijfel ik eigenlijk niet aan.
Werk goed.
Je sjatz XXX
Hey Ellen !
Dat wordt werken, hamaai !!! Maar als de profs meevallen en de vakken interessant zijn, dan lukt het jullie beslist om de hoognodige puntjes bijeen te sprokkelen. Ik geloof erin.
Nu nog geluk met de aansluiting van internet en de kookplaat ....
Blijven hopen ... of ... je connecties inschakelen, wat uiteindelijk misschien toch meer resultaat zou kunnen opleveren.
Een student zonder internet ... huh ... da moet zoiets zijn als een cafe zonder bier *:-p*
Hier viel echt niks te beleven de voorbije week. Tenzij ... het tuintje in Aarschot, je herkent het niet terug. Helemaal netjes en opgeruimd.
Misschien staat er nog iets leuks op jullie programma dit WE ...
Geniet van de vrije tijd !
Hey Ellen,
Hopelijk zie je het daar nog allemaal zitten? Het lijkt nu heel veel, al die essays, maar misschien blijkt het uiteindelijk toch iets beter mee te vallen? Ik hoop het alvast! Om je op de hoogte te houden van het nieuws hier: we zijn net terug van weekend. Het was wel leuk, veel gerepeteerd, eerste avond tot half twee opgebleven maar de tweede avond ben ik tegen kwart na elf toch maar naar bedje getrokken. Ik sliep namelijk op de kamer met Diede, Andy en Billy. Zoals je kan verwachten kan dat wel eens voor snurkie snurk zorgen. vandaar dus mijn nieuwe tactiek: ga slapen voor de anderen :-D.
Morgen begin ik aan het tweede deel van mijn stage en ik kijk er wel naar uit. Voor de rest heb ik een hele dikke beet van een spin ofzo op mijn been. Het is echt een gigantische rode plek geworden die helemaal hard en warm is. Auw :-). Heb zalf van Sigrid gekregen dus hopelijk gaat het snel beter met mijn beneken.
Stiekem maak ik me wel een beetje zorgen om u (alé de hoeveelheid werk). Als er iets is of ik kan iets doen voor u ofzo, laat maar weten hé. Essays schrijven zal niet lukken, maar een babbel kan misschien wel eens handig zijn.
Ik ga je nu laten, moet nog naar kot geraken want van daaruit ga ik naar de pp.
Dikke smak (en knuffel!)
x
Ik kan eindelijk reageren! Stomme klote computers hier op school... Blokkeren bijna alles!
Het klinkt echt als teveel... mijn god! Ik ben erug blij dat ik bijna geen papers hoef te schrijven! Heel veel succes enne... keep in mind... wel genieten hé! Ook al heb je zoveel papers... probeer er het beste van te maken!
X Gabje!
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