Second week of a new term

So my next week of term has come and gone, and it was good again. I think my favorite class is Narrative, Character, Voice in Prose Writing. My teacher is really cool, and we did a writing exercise. We had to read them out loud, and I got positive reviews. We had to write about 10 lines describing something in a child's voice. I made up something about Jay telling me there was sharks in the lake at the cottage, and stuff like that. We had like five minutes to do this, and my mind was pretty blank. My teacher liked it though, so all is good.

Fiction and Social Change is good too, though in the seminar we practiced on the spot essay writing, thinking of thesis statements and figuring out what kind of a question we were dealing with. I guess here, they grade you on the type of question you choose, and not just on what you actually write. Like you will get a better grade if you choose a harder question. I don't know if they do that in the States, I usually just pick the question that I actually know about. Oh well.

My accomplishment for the week though: I read a 339 page novel in 3 and a half hours. The novel was really good, I was really into it. It's called The God Of Little Things, and it takes place in India, and it was really good. That was for my Narrative class. We barely talked about the novel though, so I could have gotten away with not reading it, but I'm glad I did.

In Global English, we got into groups and we have to make up a survey about global english and what people think about it. Yeah my group has two other people in it, one from Hungry, one from Greece and me. There are other members of our class, but they were not there. It is certainly going to be an interesting survey. We have to give it out to people, so yeah I'm sending it to everyone I know in the States basically. At first it was just for Kingston, but between the three of us we knew like 8 people, so our teacher decided it would be better for it to be open to everyone.

Last night was awesome. I went to Seething Wells, with Jenna. Jenna actually came over here to watch the new Lost, and it took ohhh 13 hours to download. So we got pizza, Jenna and I ate one ourselves... yesss. But then we sat down to watch it, Kathleen asked to make it better, I didn't think we could, but Amaya pressed the zoom button (who knew), and then a new window opened up, and it started to redownload. Great. Jenna tried to do a few things with my computer, and got one going, but it would take like an hour. So I was just looking at things on my computer, and I went to facebook, and saw that I had a message from Danielle. It said that Kathleen was coming at 8, if the rest of us wanted to join her for the movie night. Well it was about 10 minutes to 8pm, and Kathleen was sitting in front of me. Opps. Kathleen said 'keep me posted' so that kinda means I'll be there. So yeah, we decided to go to Seething Wells and depending on the situation we could watch the new Lost which Jenna had on her computer too. So we went to Seething Wells for the first time. We took the uni bus from Penhyrn Road, and of course as we were walking down Penhyrn Road, the uni bus went by us. So we ran full out to the stop, and we made it. Of course we weren't even sure if this was the uni bus going to Seething Wells, but we got on anyway. So we got off at Surbiton, and walked to Seething Wells. Surbiton is really nice, basically Kingston, with all the important stores. They have a KFC and Blockbuster. Lol.

Seething Wells is where I almost went to, they have the cheapest rooms there, and yeah I'm glad I didn't go there. Um. They have their own bathrooms and it's basically an airplane bathroom with a shower. I mean you can stretch out your arms and touch both walls. Jenna's room is wow, maybe 4 steps from the door to the window. Everything touches in her room. I would go crazy, and would have to keep my door open at all times. Seething Wells has more of a campus feeling though, which I miss a little bit. There are 26 different buildings in Seething Wells, they aren't that big, but nice. They have a common area with a TV and stuff. We had a nice evening though, we watched Without a Paddle, and Indiana Jones (the first one), but yeah we talked through that movie. I and Anna were the only ones who didn't talk, and it was pretty annoying. Kathleen, especially cannot stay quiet for more than 2 minutes.

So after the movies we walked home, and Jenna said to follow the Thames and we would make it home. So we walked the Thames, and it wasn't a bad walk at all. From when we started walking the Thames we could see the Kingston Bridge, and though it took awhile to get there, it was so nice. We even stopped at the new 24 hour store, Jenna told us about. We went back to the road, and we were nearly blinded. It was a really cool store.

So that was my week, and now it's Saturday and I have to read three novels by Monday. Oh boy, shall be fun!