Monthly music

To be honest this time I am struggling to find 5 music videos :( Bc I really haven't had time to discover anything new and exciting. But come to think of it... There are some songs that have caught my ear ;)

Taylor Swift - Shake it Off

Meghan Trainor - All about that Bass

Enrique Iglesias  - Bailando

The first three songs are lighthearted party songs :) Atleast my foot wants to tap along and hip is starting to move involuntarily when I listen to them :)

But the fourth one is different :)

Hozier - Take me to Church

Estonian selection: 

the one I tried to put up last time :D

Elina Born - Mystery

Hmmm.. I can't find it again :( So I'll just put the link up for you to click on it yourself if you want :)

Sidenote: This was easier than I thought :) I envisaged having to put up more Bastille covers :D ;) - I do still listen to them and found out that they've done a second album as well - but I find it to be too trance or dance or club style for my liking... 

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz....

Back to work

If for some reason you might think that uni is all I have to deal with (pfft the hell is she whining about? It doesn't look like too much work at all...)(It has gotten better actually - I can now chill for a bit without freaking out in my head about the work I have to do) then I'm here to tell you I got my old job back :) And some customers even remember me!!!!! AAAwwwyeaaaah. :)

At first I got a 12 hour contract  (wait wait wait... I haven't actually signed anything... :D ) and was a bit sad, but then when all the uni work came in I was glad to only have to go to work two nights a week :)

It's weird being back - I don't know where any of the stock is (all the planograms have changed), paypoint is now done through the till. AND no one actually gave me any training :D so whenever someone comes in with a little problem that I haven't dealt with yet (this year) I have to call someone to show what button to press (it's always sooo easy and I feel ashamed) :D

Ps! This weekend I'm working Friday, Saturday AND Sunday night, and having to lock up. No ones actually shown me how to do that (I know pretty much everything but there's always a but). So I'll be freaking out like a madman running around hoping everything got swithed off or on and all the signs are in the shop etc etc etc. Wish me luck! :)

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...

Whiny

All I seem to do is whine whine whine for the past two weeks... Like I told my tutor: the first two weeks of this year have been busier than the first two years. And I'm tired now... :D A friend of mine is thinking of moving to Edinburgh and asked me to go with her, but she's moving in a month or so... I said I was thinking of quitting the uni anyway so why the hell not! :D

So what have I done: finally decided on my dissertation topic - although it needs proper phrasing and aims need to be written out, it should've been done this week but one good point about my diss supervisor is that he isn't that fussy about things like that (or he secretly hates my idea and just doesn't want to tell me that). He's the kind of slow, whatever will be will be type of guy so I'm a bit torn if I want him to be my supervisor or not :D The first meeting went ok, told him about my ideas, he said it sounds interesting but we shall see how you get on about doing it in practice. He gave me some ideas about research methods and some further literature to read. So not too bad :) We'll meet again in three weeks when I must have done my literature review already!!!! When I listen to some other students with slightly stricter supervisor (they've met 3 times already) I'm glad I chose the yeah... well... okay... kind of supervisor : slow and steady wins the race :)

I've found tons of articles for my lit review though so yay :) + Mr. Special is always sending me further links and god knows what else about it too.... Could someone now please read through all of them and give me a brief summary? Please?!? I just read the title, sometimes even the abstract and  make a note of it for later reading................

17th century travel literature module is a pain in the ##### as well, for every lecture we have a text to read, last time we had about a 12 page text to read between the four of us (group work) now for this week we have a whole freaking book to read on our own to pick out the parts where you can see that the writer is a huguenot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Did I mention that the book is freaking scanned in and originally published in the 17th century - not some modern book????? In french???? In 17th century French!!!! Otherwise the lecture is interesting but I am dreading my presentation and then later my essay - gave him my topic and he asked me to start reading about it now!!! How???? Where?????? How does he even find these kinds of texts??????? I don't even know where to start!!!!!

In French oral classes we always have freaking 5 different articles to read. I didn't say a word in last class bc I have nothing to say on the subject - well I do I could've said that Estonia just passed the civil union law, but I was just too tired to even try to understand anything that was happening in the class... Yay my mark is going to be excellent for that class -.-

Do you see why the offer to move to Edinburgh seems so tempting?

A proper Uni??

It looks like thanks to the bad rankings in the last couple of years Aber is trying to become a better uni. Which means a lot of work for me... At least it sounds interesting ;) My timetable is fuller than ever... and I have lots of journals to read, conduct research in English and in French plus do all the little French homeworks... sounds fun... and exhausting.

Anyway this semester my timetable looks like this:

Monday

• Oral class at 10, for which we have loads of articles to read... like freaking 7 at a time and they're not small news nippets oh no, full on articles... And in the first class I opened my mouth totally voluntarily :) Talked about the strikes in Corsica. The second class I finally spoke as well, the teacher was already like oh gosh yes thank god I didn't have to ask you :P We get a mark each lesson and obvs if you don't say anything you get a zero...
• French travel literature at 12, the hardest of the two optional modules. The one with a 2000 word essay. the on with 2 10-minute presentations about some book (17-19.th century). The one which for every class you have to critically analyse a text and then we discuss it in class. The one where I haven't yet said a word in... Participation is being assessed... crap...
• Translation at 4, which seems really really hard this year but luckily there were a couple of others in my group who didn't know how to translate the text either, so I'm not the only stupido :)

Tuesday

• Listening at 10 every other week :) Pretty much the same as previous years.
• Sustainable Tourism at 4 for 2 hours in the other campus. I expect to be fit after this year ;) 

Wednesday

• Freedom!!!! a couple of field visits with the tourism lecture are on Wednesday.

Thursday

• 9AM other campus, dissertation module, please kill me now! Turns out this year we get to choose our own supervisors depending on the subject we do our diss on. And they made a video introducing themselves :D The first deadline by which you have to practically know everything is in a week already and by now some of the supervisors have filled their student quota... What do I do?????????
• Grammar at 3, in the first class she already gave us conjugations to do... fail... hard... and she explained the enormous amount of homework as well... yippiiii

Friday

• Tourism seminar at 9 in which we each have to 

1. Review a journal article
2. Critically discuss another article
3. Judge the reviews and discussions of two other students

What have I gotten myself into?

Ttyl ;)

Jazzz...

Induction week

Back in Aber!!!!

I must say I wasn't too impressed having to come back here... the first couple of days I was even depressed :D but after the first induction meetings were held I realized that Aber might be on the verge of becoming a proper uni :)

I was so against coming back because I heard horror stories how about a hundred students last year got the same supervisor for their dissertations and my overall dislikeness to how we don't really have interesting subjects or even a choice on what to do. Having been to 5 different lectures a day in Corsica, I wasn't keen on going to 5 different lectures period...

My timetable looks a bit more full this year though :) Which is good :) The bad thing this year is that we can't choose language groups!!!!!! Why why why? That means I have huge caps between lectures at some days :S I'll tell you all about it in the next post dedicated to my timetable :D

What else is new and good here? Well we seem to have a compulsory employability program forced upon us. At first I was vary in going to the meetings and problem solving workshop. Bleh me, I like to sit in the corner, do nothing and be invisible and still succeed in life! But I went and even got inspired :) The point of this is to help us all get jobs after uni :) Why fight it? Better to do all the assessment centre activities first in a non-judgmental atmosphere :) And have let some professional have a look through my cv and covering letter and give me tips on it :) And what other activities they come up with.

The week turned out to be even better after the departmental welcoming where they admitted having problems last year and said that this year ALL the academic staff will be supervisors and we get to choose our own, depending on the subject we do it on :) What could be better than that? Plus every time we have a meeting with them they have to fill in a form on how we are doing and what to do next etc.

And looks like the new tourism people are much much much nicer than our old grumpy group who didn't really want anything to do with us foreigners :) Plus there are so much more of them too :)

I am even looking forward to this year :) And now on to writing my PDP - my progression in French about my last year...

Ttyl ;)
Jazzz...