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First Day Back...
Sep. 27th, 2007 07:08 pmWell, first day of lectures, so close enough ;). Three hours of History; the first hour was an introductory type thing, in the vein of "Work hard, play little or die miserably, bitches! fail."
In the nicest possible way of course ;) Can't fault Galeotti's (the new department head) sense of humour. I was just weirdly grateful he's not teaching my course this year!
Preceding that lecture was the ten minutes Adam and I spentsqueeing enthusiastically discussing the TV shows we've been watching or meaning to watch this summer. Upshot? HE'S GIVING ME A COPY OF THE BSG MOVIE IN NOVEMBER! :D
After that, there was the two hours of introductory African History seminar. Met the new tutor, who's nice enough, and despite the course being set about a hundred years later than I would have preferred (colonial-era history rather than the post-1940's era the tutor's teaching), I don't think I'll have too many problems finding something to write my dissertation on. At the moment I'm leaning towards the emergence of the nationalist sentiment in the early twentieth century onwards (since the basis for it is firmly in the colonial era), but there's still a long way to go before I can make an informed decision about what the dissertation is going to be on.
Politics starts next Wednesday, with the Political Parties module being taught by the strict-but-fair German guy I encountered briefly in one of the first year modules. Can't remember who's doing the Eastern Europe module, except that I'm fairly sure it's not the guy I had for the Balkans module last year, who was so very quiet and thus almost impossible to understand.
And as a side note? My birthday present from Mum was dispatched this morning, should get that at the beginning of next week :D
In the nicest possible way of course ;) Can't fault Galeotti's (the new department head) sense of humour. I was just weirdly grateful he's not teaching my course this year!
Preceding that lecture was the ten minutes Adam and I spent
After that, there was the two hours of introductory African History seminar. Met the new tutor, who's nice enough, and despite the course being set about a hundred years later than I would have preferred (colonial-era history rather than the post-1940's era the tutor's teaching), I don't think I'll have too many problems finding something to write my dissertation on. At the moment I'm leaning towards the emergence of the nationalist sentiment in the early twentieth century onwards (since the basis for it is firmly in the colonial era), but there's still a long way to go before I can make an informed decision about what the dissertation is going to be on.
Politics starts next Wednesday, with the Political Parties module being taught by the strict-but-fair German guy I encountered briefly in one of the first year modules. Can't remember who's doing the Eastern Europe module, except that I'm fairly sure it's not the guy I had for the Balkans module last year, who was so very quiet and thus almost impossible to understand.
And as a side note? My birthday present from Mum was dispatched this morning, should get that at the beginning of next week :D
