Today, I didn’t have any classes until 16:30. Around 13:00, I went to the scuba shop and bought myself a scuba mask and snorkel. Finding one that fits right is surprisingly difficult. I still had too much time to spare so I went to Ryman Stationary to buy a pencil. The pencils in the UK are really expensive. I ended up buying a mechanical pencil that cost like £4.50 (cheapest I could find). Then I went back to campus and bought myself lunch and went to the library where I hung out for like 3 hours until I went to class. On the way home, I stopped at Aldi and bought food.
Category: School
Day 26: Wednesday
Today I had my games technology class. The class is getting really pointless. For the lecture hour we learn about game theory and for the tutorial hour we do nothing. The teacher automatically expects us to figure out the UDK on hour own which is getting really frustrating. He doesn’t even know anything about it himself. I don’t know how in going to pass this class.
Day 25: Tuesday
Today was a typical Tuesday with normal Tuesday classes.
Day 24: School
Today, I went to my Monday classes. Between classes, I went to the library to do my space law reading that I put off all week. After class, I went back to my flat and watched Netflix until I went to bed.
Day 23: Studying
Today I decided that I needed to do my homework. This week, I had six pages of Spanish and German due. I went to the library and studied for several hours. I had to walk since the bus system doens’t run on Sundays. In fact very little was open on the way to the library. I managed to finish Spanish before I quit. I left the main part of the library and bought myself a mocha then, I sat down on the couches and updated my blog. When I got up to get a napkin, I dropped my watch. After I updated my blog, I walked back to Clanny. Half way back I looked down at my watch to check the time only to remember I had dropped it earlier. I called the library as soon as I realized my mistake and asked them if it was still there. They checked and they put it in the lost and found for me. After this, I made a ham sandwich for dinner then watched some Netflix for a while.
Day 20: Reading
Today I got up and left for the City campus. When I arrived I walked another ten minutes until I arrived at Sunderland scuba centre. Last time O visited, they didn’t have the materials that I needed in stock. This time they did so I picked them up and went back to campus where I it lunch at Gregg’s. After lunch around 12:45, I read until my German class which was at 16:30. I almost finished the book (22 pages from the end) during this period.
German is hard, they have really word pronunciations for everything. I don’t really like the class so far but, it is one of the few things that in taking here that will supply toward my degree back home.
After German, I walked back to Clanny stopping at Aldi for food so that I would not have to eat another bowl of spaghetti. After eating some lunch meat sandwiches, I finished reading my book. I hope when I see the movie it’s as good as the book.
Day 19: Exhaustion
I was really tired when I woke up this morning. I went to my classes then planned on going to bed when I got back to the flat. After eating yet another bowl of spaghetti, I went up to my room and started reading the Martian. The reason that I watch Netflix instead of reading is as follows. I stayed up until 2am when I was way to exhausted to read another page. The good news though is I don’t have any classes on Thursday until 16:30. Which I don’t like because, I thought that I had planned my schedule so that I would not have classes on Thursday or Friday, oh well.
Day 18: Student Raid
Today I started of at the St.Peter’s campus for my film analysis seminar. After this class, I caught the bus to the City campus.
At the City campus, I ate lunch and then went to my Spanish class. In Spanish we learned basic greetings and names. It was kind of boring though as it’s a review from when I was in high school.
After class, I rode the bus back to my flat where I had spaghetti for dinner.
Tonight was the student raid at the bridges which is basically students only and a ton of discounts. I went to buy a textbook. Lame, I know. I didn’t end up buying the textbook since it would be much cheaper on Amazon. I did end up buying the Martian and the Maze runner books. Also, at this book store I get 10% back since I’m a student.
Getting a bus back to clanny was even worse than usual. I flagged the bus drive but, he kept on going. After 45 minutes, I finally got onto a bus and made it back to the flat where I watched Netflix until bed.
Day 17: Physics lesson
I know what you’re thinking, why is he getting a physics lesson? He’s not taking any physics classes. I’ll get to it.
So today started off with my film analysis lecture then, I had my film screening an hour later. I had an hour afterwords so, I went to the library cafe and bought something for lunch.
My next class was space law. We had to come up with our topic section. I chose terraforming because, I understand the science of it from my geosciences project but I don’t know about the corresponding legal stipulations. After we told the teachers what we were going to be studying, we were put into groups to define space. This is where the physics lesson came in. The others in their last year of law school suggested that it be the point that Earth’s gravity doesn’t effect objects anymore. If you understand basic physics you’ll be laughing about now. So, the professor got up and wrote the basic gravitational equation on the board. He then explained it and everyone understood. I believe that this is why a lot of laws about science don’t make sense. If your a law student, I would highly recommend learning at least the basics of a variety of fields.
I was tired after class so, I went back to the flat and ate spaghetti.
Day 12: Fresher’s Faire
Today was the Fresher’s Faire which is what we call the back to school picnic at FHSU. The entire CitySpace was full of tables for every kind of club and sorry that you can think of. They have everything from scuba to American football to businesses like pizza hut and taxis. I personally was interested in the scuba and snowsports clubs. After I made it through the faire, I caught a bus to the St.Peter’s campus for my classes.
At the St.Peter’s campus, my first class was my games technology lecture. Basically games technology is about developing games using unreal engine 4. After the lecture, we went to the games room which is a computer lab designed for gaming and game development. There was a 20GB file that had to be installed to do anything so, the class was short. After this, I went to the law section of the library to do the space law reading for the week. Then I had my final class for the week, my film studies workshop. Afterwards, I went back to the library to do film studied reading. Next, I caught the bus back to Clanny and watched Netflix until 02:00 on Thursday when I finally went to bed.