Friday, December 16, 2005
Pictures!
Yes, it's that time you have all been so eagerly waiting for: I have pictures! Some of them, anyway. Still need to get the other half off Emily's computer.
Dublin photos
Harry Potter
Houseparty at Norfolk
Enjoy!
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Dublin photos
Harry Potter
Houseparty at Norfolk
Enjoy!
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Thursday, December 15, 2005
Ickiness...
Well, just got out of my last-ever university class. That's kinda sad, really. I'm going to miss university. Give me a couple of months at my first job, and I'm sure I'd be willing to give my every penny to go back to college.
You know, I really like England. It's a lovely country. Beautiful scenery. Wonderful, charming, generous people. But the school system here is complete WHACKED. I don't have exams until the last week of January. This is inconvenient for several reasons. After all, who wants to study over Christmas? And why do they make us wait a month, until we've surely forgotten everything we learned?
But apparently it gets even worse. Today I learned that the library and computer facilities are closing for TWO WEEKS over the holidays. So not only do I have to study for exams, but they're removing my only means of studying for them. Plus they're cutting me off from the internet for two weeks, and I was counting on having net access. After all, everyone else will be home for the holidays, everything will be closed--what else am I supposed to do for two weeks but read and surf the internet?
So tomorrow I need to bring to school a list of every book I could possibly need for exams, and hope I manage to find all of them, because if I forget one there's no possibility of coming back to the library until the 3rd of January. And Saturday may be the last time any of you will hear from me until January the 5th. Maybe the Freelands will let me check my e-mail next week, but beyond that I'm cut off completely.
Grrr.
Wonder if I could trade babysitting for Internet access with one of the families at my church. Actually, by the time the library opens up again, I might be willing to babysit for FREE, just to have something to do.
Speaking of holidays, you guys are out for the winter, aren't you? Erin, Barbara, Brett, how did exams go? Are you back home?
The BBC website has some interesting photos of Leicester in its 'Leicester Landscapes' gallery here. Most of them seem to have been taken outside the city proper, as really the industrial areas aren't nearly this pretty. But there are several photos of the university campus.
I've downloaded a couple hundred pictures onto Emily's computer, and I should be able to get them online in a couple of days. So expect photos from Dublin, Norfolk, and Thanksgiving pretty soon.
Love you guys!
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You know, I really like England. It's a lovely country. Beautiful scenery. Wonderful, charming, generous people. But the school system here is complete WHACKED. I don't have exams until the last week of January. This is inconvenient for several reasons. After all, who wants to study over Christmas? And why do they make us wait a month, until we've surely forgotten everything we learned?
But apparently it gets even worse. Today I learned that the library and computer facilities are closing for TWO WEEKS over the holidays. So not only do I have to study for exams, but they're removing my only means of studying for them. Plus they're cutting me off from the internet for two weeks, and I was counting on having net access. After all, everyone else will be home for the holidays, everything will be closed--what else am I supposed to do for two weeks but read and surf the internet?
So tomorrow I need to bring to school a list of every book I could possibly need for exams, and hope I manage to find all of them, because if I forget one there's no possibility of coming back to the library until the 3rd of January. And Saturday may be the last time any of you will hear from me until January the 5th. Maybe the Freelands will let me check my e-mail next week, but beyond that I'm cut off completely.
Grrr.
Wonder if I could trade babysitting for Internet access with one of the families at my church. Actually, by the time the library opens up again, I might be willing to babysit for FREE, just to have something to do.
Speaking of holidays, you guys are out for the winter, aren't you? Erin, Barbara, Brett, how did exams go? Are you back home?
The BBC website has some interesting photos of Leicester in its 'Leicester Landscapes' gallery here. Most of them seem to have been taken outside the city proper, as really the industrial areas aren't nearly this pretty. But there are several photos of the university campus.
I've downloaded a couple hundred pictures onto Emily's computer, and I should be able to get them online in a couple of days. So expect photos from Dublin, Norfolk, and Thanksgiving pretty soon.
Love you guys!
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Monday, December 12, 2005
Woohoo!
I finished my essays! Go me!
Friday night I went out with some friends after Christian Union to see the new Narnia movie. My opinion: two thumbs way up! Go see it!
Yesterday evening my church had a carol service down at the Cradock, the local pub. Yes, only in Britain do you have Christmas services at a pub. It was a lot of fun; they served mince pies and mulled wine. Most of the songs were familiar to me, although they sing 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear' to a completely different melody.
Tonight I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do, since I've FINISHED MY ESSAYS and don't have anything to study. It's the last week of classes (boy, the semester's gone fast...) and I only have two more lectures before I'm free for the holidays (lectures that most everyone's going to skip anyway). Maybe I'll watch a movie with some friends down the block...
Speaking of skipping lectures, apparently we Americans are incredibly uptight about that kind of thing. Several students I know didn't even arrive in Leicester until the second or third week of classes, and no one blinked an eye. I was rather amazed.
You may notice (or not) that I've updated my blogroll to the right. I figured that since I hadn't visited most of those sites in over a year, and a good deal of them didn't exist anymore, I'd probably better get rid of them. I've added some new ones, though, if anyone's interested.
Love you guys!
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Friday night I went out with some friends after Christian Union to see the new Narnia movie. My opinion: two thumbs way up! Go see it!
Yesterday evening my church had a carol service down at the Cradock, the local pub. Yes, only in Britain do you have Christmas services at a pub. It was a lot of fun; they served mince pies and mulled wine. Most of the songs were familiar to me, although they sing 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear' to a completely different melody.
Tonight I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do, since I've FINISHED MY ESSAYS and don't have anything to study. It's the last week of classes (boy, the semester's gone fast...) and I only have two more lectures before I'm free for the holidays (lectures that most everyone's going to skip anyway). Maybe I'll watch a movie with some friends down the block...
Speaking of skipping lectures, apparently we Americans are incredibly uptight about that kind of thing. Several students I know didn't even arrive in Leicester until the second or third week of classes, and no one blinked an eye. I was rather amazed.
You may notice (or not) that I've updated my blogroll to the right. I figured that since I hadn't visited most of those sites in over a year, and a good deal of them didn't exist anymore, I'd probably better get rid of them. I've added some new ones, though, if anyone's interested.
Love you guys!
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