My Week
My clothes seem to be slowly falling into shreds. I've been busy sewing four time now already, and my "Séjour en France" travel kit won't be able to provide me with blacks and yellows much longer. On the positive side: these small activities necessary in life make a great sceape for essay-writing (as do hebdomadals and other diaries).
I think I've finally got the hang of the cleaning system here: everyone pays for it, but only the ones complaining get it (your room and kitchen cleaned, I mean). I've made four official complaints now, and today for the first time a man turned up and cleaned my room - just mine. The others hadn't complained enough. But he advised them to do so, and then on friday he would be able to attend on them as well.
Routine is great. You need it in order to break it. So, this is the little routine I made for myself:(although I don't stick to it. At least not usually):
(An explanatory note: seminars are like classes at UC, or werkgroepen; lectures don't exist at UC: it's sitting down and shutting up and not asking any questions; also called hoorcolleges. Nice on a lazy thursday morning, but otherwise undesirable.)
I think I've finally got the hang of the cleaning system here: everyone pays for it, but only the ones complaining get it (your room and kitchen cleaned, I mean). I've made four official complaints now, and today for the first time a man turned up and cleaned my room - just mine. The others hadn't complained enough. But he advised them to do so, and then on friday he would be able to attend on them as well.
Routine is great. You need it in order to break it. So, this is the little routine I made for myself:(although I don't stick to it. At least not usually):
(An explanatory note: seminars are like classes at UC, or werkgroepen; lectures don't exist at UC: it's sitting down and shutting up and not asking any questions; also called hoorcolleges. Nice on a lazy thursday morning, but otherwise undesirable.)
- Monday: do all my Middle Ages homework = read articles and prepare summary and questions for "digital learning environment" and presentation/discussion in seminar. Attend seminar.
- Tuesday: do all homework for History of Sexuality = idem and discuss in our own three-person study group to be able to present our views together. No classes.
- Wednesday: do all homework for Music Sociology = reading long and difficult but sometimes extremely interesting articles. No need to write anything down. Attend Middle Ages lecture and Music Sociology combined lecture/seminar. Practice singing (only necessary once a week, for it's only ten percent of the choir doing this anyway).
- Thursday: get up really early for a History of Sexuality lecture. Work in the museum. Choir rehearsal.
- Friday-Sunday: read two study books (for each course we got a lengthy booklist, each comprising approximately one hundred books. We can pick the ones we like, as long as together they prepare us for the exams...).
- About three times a week: buy food!
- About three times a week: go out!
- Once a week (most of the time on saturdays): make some excursion, for we didn't come all the way here for nothing, did we? For example with OODS (the Out Of Doors Society, of which I am A Member - we'll talk about that later), visiting M in london, seeing burning barrels in Ottery, walking to Exmouth, eating treacle pudding in some remote pub, etc.
- And of course there's cooking, dishes, laundry, cleaning, sewing... oh, and sleeping?
- Every 1,5 week: write one essay. This is really where the trouble starts. As you can see, my week is full doing the usual stuff already, so I may get a bit stressed once in a while. Like today.
posted by Anna P.H. Geurts | 5:43 pm
