Hello everyone!
How are you all? I hope no one has been snowed in already (Apparently, last week that did happen in a village in Devon. Luckily not ours!)
Durham is getting cold. And in true student fashion, you do see the most incredible sights entering the college bar. Last night, we witnessed a guy walking in in a bikini and cling film. Crazy or what. We have had a warning from our Senior Tutor about not wearing warm enough clothes outside, and about getting enough sleep. In true Russian fashion I have been crossing my scarf properly, so as not to leave a cold bit at the front, and wearing enough clothes to make any babushka proud. And, so far, I have been getting (just about!) enough sleep...
Work has started to get serious. Already, it is almost impossible to do the amount of preparation for each class, before you even start thinking about "independent learning" things. Motivation at this point is obviously key. Tim's wii is obviously not.
I had my first bassoon lesson the other day - it was good fun. Apparently, I have picked up a French accent in my playing. My teacher put that right straight away! I have just officially been granted permission to keep my car in Durham this year as well, which will reduce the journey from a 2 hour slog with about 40 mins walking to a nice comfortable 35 minute drive. Nice.
We have had two formal dinners so far - the first was a slight disaster as far as we were concerned. Not only did they run out of food (in particular the College chocolate cake which is gorgeous, and that we have managed to just miss another 4 times :( ) but also they didn't have enough seats for everyone, they didn't tell us what time it started, and they didn't tell us the dress code. We successfully guessed the start time, but we were sent back to smarten up a little (it was a Sunday formal, for which the dress code in 1st year was very casual - we used to go in our slippers!). But it was all fun in the end. And we were all sorted for the second one.
The new freshers are a bit of a rough bunch. They push into the dinner queue and steal food. And they seem to love queueing. Sometimes, the queue for a meal will start about half an hour before the meal. This has a knock-on affect for us, as it means that we spend a lot of time in the queue as well, otherwise, (and this has happened!) College runs out of food. We decided to liven things up a little in the first week, and get the queue to join hands and sing Auld Lang Syne. Unfortunately we chickened out. But it would have been hilarious.
Talking of food, it is nearly tea time, so I had better go.
Have a nice week!
Lots of love
Sarah
xxx
How are you all? I hope no one has been snowed in already (Apparently, last week that did happen in a village in Devon. Luckily not ours!)
Durham is getting cold. And in true student fashion, you do see the most incredible sights entering the college bar. Last night, we witnessed a guy walking in in a bikini and cling film. Crazy or what. We have had a warning from our Senior Tutor about not wearing warm enough clothes outside, and about getting enough sleep. In true Russian fashion I have been crossing my scarf properly, so as not to leave a cold bit at the front, and wearing enough clothes to make any babushka proud. And, so far, I have been getting (just about!) enough sleep...
Work has started to get serious. Already, it is almost impossible to do the amount of preparation for each class, before you even start thinking about "independent learning" things. Motivation at this point is obviously key. Tim's wii is obviously not.
I had my first bassoon lesson the other day - it was good fun. Apparently, I have picked up a French accent in my playing. My teacher put that right straight away! I have just officially been granted permission to keep my car in Durham this year as well, which will reduce the journey from a 2 hour slog with about 40 mins walking to a nice comfortable 35 minute drive. Nice.
We have had two formal dinners so far - the first was a slight disaster as far as we were concerned. Not only did they run out of food (in particular the College chocolate cake which is gorgeous, and that we have managed to just miss another 4 times :( ) but also they didn't have enough seats for everyone, they didn't tell us what time it started, and they didn't tell us the dress code. We successfully guessed the start time, but we were sent back to smarten up a little (it was a Sunday formal, for which the dress code in 1st year was very casual - we used to go in our slippers!). But it was all fun in the end. And we were all sorted for the second one.
The new freshers are a bit of a rough bunch. They push into the dinner queue and steal food. And they seem to love queueing. Sometimes, the queue for a meal will start about half an hour before the meal. This has a knock-on affect for us, as it means that we spend a lot of time in the queue as well, otherwise, (and this has happened!) College runs out of food. We decided to liven things up a little in the first week, and get the queue to join hands and sing Auld Lang Syne. Unfortunately we chickened out. But it would have been hilarious.
Talking of food, it is nearly tea time, so I had better go.
Have a nice week!
Lots of love
Sarah
xxx
1 comment:
Glad to see that you're settling back into British life OK. I'll probably be up in the North East again during my support raising (which starts now) and it would be really great to drop in on you and all the other Sarahs whilst I'm there.
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