Today I had my first ever - and quite probably last - literature exam which didn't include an essay. Felt like that was such an anomaly - it almost seems paradoxical - that it deserved a mention here. It was also the only lit exam where I've ever been required to compose a Spenserian stanza on a given subject, fulfilling all meter, rhyme and feet requirements. For those of you who aren't lit majors, don't worry, if you don't have a clue what a...

I've been told I'm a slacker for not updating. Again. So, in order to defy that label, here's an update. I don't really have a whole lot to update about though. Exams begin - and end - this coming week. Unlike at Canterbury, we don't get time off to study for them. Finals begin the week after classes end. But, they'll be done by Friday, and by this time in a week, I'll be on another continent. Don't really know how to feel about it. Sad to leave? Excit...

Today I met up with an Italian guy for a language exchange; he's here studying English so wanted to talk with some native speakers; he's also fluent in French, so I figured it'd be a good chance for me to practice that at the same time. So we conversed, alternating between English and French - usually swapping back to English when the vocab or grammar got too difficult for me in French, cos his English was way better! - and then we got talking about S...

One more week of classes (that means two days for me, no Mon/Wed/Fri classes - yuss!), one week of finals... and then I'll be gone. Can hardly believe how fast it has gone!Gonna miss this place, the people, and the internationality (if that is a word!) of it. Any given week you get multiple cultural experiences, especially living in International House. Like last week, for example, teaching an American girl to speak with a Kiwi accent for her ...

One more week of classes (that means two days for me, no Mon/Wed/Fri classes - yuss!), one week of finals... and then I'll be gone. Can hardly believe how fast it has gone! Gonna miss this place, the people, and the internationality (if that is a word!) of it. In any given week, you get so many international cultural experiences, especially living in International House. Like last week, for example, teaching an American girl to speak with a Kiwi accent for ...