They make you appreciate how much you have forgotten over the course of the year, not how much you have learnt. Ah well. Was an interesting and packed lesson. After having a half an hour this lunch time was impressed that I had retained quite a lot (thank goodness). Got 61/80 in the listening test :) making educated guesses/trusting instinct ( Read more... )

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Extended bank hol weekend was not bad, though due to the (only) club night being on the Sunday, the Monday therefore felt like a Sunday…

Fairy was not impressed with Ghibli's version of Howls' Moving Castle (felt the same, especially as the personalities of the major characters had been softened and were not as spikey and the inserted (ie not in ( Read more... )

Well, made it to Wagamamas, but not the cinema as film times shift forward Mon-Thu - didn't feel like waiting til 8:10pm, especially as we'll be seeing HitchikersGttG Saturday anway… Wagamamas was nice, but nothing special. As it was 2for1 maincouse meal, we picked out the two most expensive (also due to the fact that these were seafood based ~ ( Read more... )

Amazing what an additional 1.5 hours sleep can do for you. Feel moderately mentally alert for once. Still took 3 coffeemochas to get me going this morning though... head is still boiling and hands frozen, but then again, I always have had poor circulation ( Read more... )

The listening test yesterday has made me realise that I definitely need to revise for the oral exam. Didn't help that during rest of the lesson some exercises used some of the vocab which I didn't know during the test *doh*. Think have passed *fingers crossed*, but not as well as I have done in the past and might be rather embarrassed over the ( Read more... )

There is a poster on the corridor wall which aimed at students with an Albert Einstein quote, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving" which I particulary empathise with as I feel that I have, over the last couple of years, slowed down so much I could be wobbling from the proverbial bike… I definitely need a good ( Read more... )

Well, nearly the weekend - what more can I say ^_ ( Read more... )

...the icecream man has come around (always parks outside building entrance during the summer months) just had a (rather tasteless) MrWhippy with chocolate sauce. Think my taste buds are off again ( Read more... )

I am sooo tired. The office has a quiet lull feeling with serious atmosphere - no one is bright and cheerful making this morning drag rather ( Read more... )