Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Back in Europe
So we've left Honolulu and are back in our respective home countries. One or the other of us will endeavour to write about our last few days soon (which were PHENOMENAL) but for now here is a link to our first, second and third Facebook photo albums. You should be able to access it without a Facebook account but let me know if you can't! Happy New Year everyone.
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Finals Week
It's Sunday afternoon and we have roast pork in the oven, and a typically corny Christmas movie on the TV (I predict that the male and female protagonists will go from being strangers to falling in love!); the washing up is all done, I tidied up earlier, and Tom is preparing homemade apple sauce while I write this, steal bits of apple, and type up notes for my Gender take-home exam.
Just a few more things for each of us to do, and on Friday evening we're free!
Next Saturday we're hoping to go to the Byoudo-in temple, which we went to ages ago after the temple actually closed. On Sunday we're travelling around the island to see some sights with John (also known as Probably-Tim, one of Tom's friends); Monday is climbing Diamond Head (to ensure that Christmas isn't just jet-lagged and freezing and most likely hungover but also achey), and Tuesday will be spent packing and tidying and generally freaking out.
Oh, that reminds me - dear John and Nancy, Tom keeps telling me that he's going to email you to let you know that he now drinks red wine, and then forgetting to actually follow through! So, consider yourself warned that he will be depleting your stock of alcohol this winter =)
One of my essays was extremely vindictive this week but I have already done copious moaning about it, and it's almost all over now (just have to get the grade back) so I'm not going to bother going into it again. It was horrible. That is all.
Tom is 'revising' (read: basting the pork, turning the potatoes, peeling apples, dancing to Christmas music - basically anything that is actually 'not revising') for his State & Local Government exam tomorrow and his World Politics exam on Tuesday. I have been nominated for a Best Paper competition thingy which has a $500 top prize (yay). We are looking forward to coming home - I in particular am dangerously fed up of the teachers and educational system, what kind of country doesn't ask you to do analytical essays until after you've got a degree?! - but dreading the cold. Christmas present shopping soon, which I am looking forward to.
I love Christmas! I'm so excited!
Just a few more things for each of us to do, and on Friday evening we're free!
Next Saturday we're hoping to go to the Byoudo-in temple, which we went to ages ago after the temple actually closed. On Sunday we're travelling around the island to see some sights with John (also known as Probably-Tim, one of Tom's friends); Monday is climbing Diamond Head (to ensure that Christmas isn't just jet-lagged and freezing and most likely hungover but also achey), and Tuesday will be spent packing and tidying and generally freaking out.
Oh, that reminds me - dear John and Nancy, Tom keeps telling me that he's going to email you to let you know that he now drinks red wine, and then forgetting to actually follow through! So, consider yourself warned that he will be depleting your stock of alcohol this winter =)
One of my essays was extremely vindictive this week but I have already done copious moaning about it, and it's almost all over now (just have to get the grade back) so I'm not going to bother going into it again. It was horrible. That is all.
Tom is 'revising' (read: basting the pork, turning the potatoes, peeling apples, dancing to Christmas music - basically anything that is actually 'not revising') for his State & Local Government exam tomorrow and his World Politics exam on Tuesday. I have been nominated for a Best Paper competition thingy which has a $500 top prize (yay). We are looking forward to coming home - I in particular am dangerously fed up of the teachers and educational system, what kind of country doesn't ask you to do analytical essays until after you've got a degree?! - but dreading the cold. Christmas present shopping soon, which I am looking forward to.
I love Christmas! I'm so excited!
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
December
Happy December!
Yes, so it's over a week into December, and this is my first entry of the month, but we've been really, really busy. In fact, doing this right now is stopping me from writing part of the 20-odd pages I've got to do for Friday. Friday! It's very nice to have a break though.
We've both been doing well in class - Tom did a presentation on Monday, and said that his essay was clearly much better than anyone else's. I did one this morning and it was scary. I'm halfway through a paper of the Iranian media, and a very tiny way into a take-home exam on Islam + revolutions. One big presentation, one little presentation, and two five-ish-page exams due next week. Tom has three exams next week, one paper due tomorrow, and I believe that's about it.
Two weeks today is when we fly back. It will be such a relief to have finished everything. The weather is turning on us, although when I put it into words it just sounds pathetic - we both woke up freezing cold the night before last when it got to about 20 degrees! It's going to be such a shock when we come back, I can't even fathom colder than that night at the moment.
Yes, so it's over a week into December, and this is my first entry of the month, but we've been really, really busy. In fact, doing this right now is stopping me from writing part of the 20-odd pages I've got to do for Friday. Friday! It's very nice to have a break though.
We've both been doing well in class - Tom did a presentation on Monday, and said that his essay was clearly much better than anyone else's. I did one this morning and it was scary. I'm halfway through a paper of the Iranian media, and a very tiny way into a take-home exam on Islam + revolutions. One big presentation, one little presentation, and two five-ish-page exams due next week. Tom has three exams next week, one paper due tomorrow, and I believe that's about it.
Two weeks today is when we fly back. It will be such a relief to have finished everything. The weather is turning on us, although when I put it into words it just sounds pathetic - we both woke up freezing cold the night before last when it got to about 20 degrees! It's going to be such a shock when we come back, I can't even fathom colder than that night at the moment.
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