Busy days

Yes, as you can notice, I´ve been absent again but this time I have uni reasons, so I hope you not to be angry with me=)

On Wednesday, I had Making Magazines classes and it was a little bit stressful because we are supossed to hand in two magazine´s pages for next week and I find it quite complicated. We were waiting for the lecturer because it´s time for graduations and he couldn´t come on time and meanwhile, we we discussing about how to do the music magazine. I was writing the music reviews which needs much more time and then I would design the page.
The lecturer gave us some advice to succeed but I thought that it was going to be a hard work and the worst thing of all was that I was accumulating lots of uni works. When I arrived home I tried to follow writing as I had promised myself but I was really tired so I rested in the dining room talking to my flatmates and the I went to bed.
On Thursday (also known as "my busy day"), I had my Broadcast Journalism´s classes and I was editing the vox pop I have to hand in next week (as well as the magazine and the presentation...=S). Later, I had my classes of Global Media Industries and it was really complicated, as usual. Fortunately, in the afternoon classes I could ask about the doubts and I understood the main points more or less. Afterwards, I went to my residence because I had other of my flatmate´s birthay!! It was awesome but I had to study the following day so I stayed with them a little bit but I didn´t go out.
Yesterday, I went to classes like a normal Friday and then I met my French friend, Maud, because she had to do a photography work and I was going to be her "model". We went to her house to choose the make up and clothes before going to the studio and then she took pictures of me and they were really beautiful! She´s an artist. Afterwards, I went to my residence because it was late and I was talking to my flatmates in the kitchen until I went to bed.
And today, I went to the library because I had to design the pages for Making Magazines and then I went to the gym, finally!! I had abandonned it a little bit because of my homework but I´m ready to restart!=)
Now, I´m in my room finishing the homework and it takes ages so I don´t know when it will be ready...at least I have enough time until Wednesday...I keep studying so let´s talk tomorrow.

xoxo

Searching the perfect coat and Homework day

On Saturday, I went to the gym to the Street Dance class with one of my friends and we enjoyed ourselves very much although at first we thought that we were wrong. When we went into the class, there were some children ad we didn´t know that it was going to be the average of the class. Anyway, they could follow the beat perfectly and the choreography was nice.

Afterwards, we went shopping to the shopping centre, the West Quay and surroundings because my friend wanted to buy a good coat (something normal taking into acoount the cold weather...). We spent almost the whole afternoon going from pillar to post trying to findthe best coat. Eventually, she found the one that she wanted and we could come back home. I take advantage of the free time I had to do some homework. Then, I got prepared to go out with some friends to the pub Vodka Revolution. And in spite of the fact that we thought that the night was not going to be anything special, we had lots of fun and we danced like crazy people until late.

Now, you will understand why i´m so tired today. In fact, I don´t think I´m going to do anything important apart from resting and doing homework which is never worthless. And tomorrow, another week is going to start, luckily Mondays are my day of, every cloud has a silver lining...

xoxo

Friends´day

Today I had 3 hours of classes. The first one was at 9.00 and it´s the hardest one because I have to wake up early and I´m not used to, actually, most of my classes are in the afternoon. We were analysing online local newspapers and it´s interesting to know the differences between online and conventional newspapers. Afterwards, I has Aplied and Academic English and we were trying to summarize some text the professor gave us. It´s a very useful activity because in all our assignments we should add a summary in the end. Athough I thought that it was going to be easy, it wasn´t so. The professor told us that the key is to practice continuosly.

My classes finished at 13.00 and I went to my residence to have lunch, talk to my flatmates and study a little bit. I went to the gym to do Step and it was OK but not as hard as other activities. Now, one of friends has came to my residence and we are chatting with some friends who are going to go out. It seems to be a relaxing day.

xoxo

Missing & Bournemouth

Oh! I think I leave you on Wednesday...Sorry about that! Laziness and Internet's problems is not a good combination at all. Now I'm at the library because I had to meet one of my classmates to organize the presentation that we have to make together in mid-November. We are going to talk about the Swedish Public television and radio (SVT) in relation to one of the political economies we are studying in Global Media Industries. It sounds a little bit difficult but I hope we will succeed! Besides, I decided to stay here because there was no Internet in the residence (at least, until I'm gone) and I realise how much we need it (interesting discoveries...lol). Well, without further delay, I begin to recap on what I was doing last week.

On Wednesday, after going to LBT which was hard but not as much as Body Pump, I came to the residence to have lunch quickly because I had classes at 4.00. The classes were not as great as I expected. Actually, I don´t really like Making Magazines because I don´t know lots of things about Mac computers which are required. Anyway, I will try to do my best and understand what I should do. When I came back, I called my friends to go out and so we do. We went again to The White House but that night was not as good as others because there were not lots of people there. Eventually, I return to my residence with my friend and we just wanted to sleep.

On Thursday, I had many classes and I was a little bit tired but everything was OK and I enjoyed my lectures so much although Global Media Industries is still very difficult. Anyway, I really like it so I will try to manage reading some articles and

Despite that I was going to go to Body Combat´s class, I didn´t go because I stayed here talking to my family on Skype until night.

On Friday, I went to my classes, including my English lecture which was not as interesting as before but still entertaining. After that I went to the gym and I came back to my residence because I had to be ready at 6.30! I had a barbecue in Evelin friend´s house! All I can say is that it was great! We enjoyed a lot and I really liked their friends that I didn´t know.

On Saturday, we went to visit Bournemouth ( in my case, again) and Poole, a British tourist seaside town! Evelin´s friend drove us to wonderful places and we could see a beautiful part of England that made us even more proud of where we're going to spend a year. We were having lunch in an Irish restaurant and then we went back home. I stayed in my friend´s house because we has many thing to talk about.

On Sunday, we woke up late and I went to the gym with Evelin. We were working out until late and afterwards I went to the residence to so my homework, rest and share my time with my flatmates.

Sorry about the delay. I consider that it would be great to write the entries more often and shorter. I hope you will agree.

We will continue talking tomorrow, an important day for me.

xoxo

Gym Days and Spanish Dinner

I´m here again to tell you everything about my last two days. I don´t know why but this week is being longer than others.

On Monday (which is my day off, as you´ll probably know) I went to the gym with Evelin. After having gone around every gym in Southampton, we decided to sign in The Quays which we think is the best one because of its facilities and price (£25 if you go there before 4pm).
Believe me when I say that I know what I´m talking about because we went to every gym during 2 weeks until we made the decision.
Once we signed in, we went directly to the G-cycle class (what we called as "Spinning" in Spain). It was the first time that I went to this class and it was really hard but worth it! The professor was quite strict but nice and very understanding when she realised that I was a beginner.
In the evening, we attend to the gym again. This time we were working out (cycle, weights, sit-ups...) so as you can imagine, we ended up very tired. Eventually, we went home because the only thing left to do was rest.


Yesterday, I went again to the gym (don´t think that I´m obsessed with working out, it´s simply the novelty) and I practised Body Pump: "a class using barbells and adjustable weights to tone and condition muscles while raising metabolic rate for rapid fat-burning" (activenation.org.uk). The trainer was the same as in G-cycle and I like her way to do sports because she takes it seriously and she made us work out hard. After that, I came back to my residence and I had lunch quickly because I had classes at 3.00. The classes were OK, anything really special. The only thing is that I find Making Magazines a little bit complicated for me because I had never used designing tools in my computer.
The most interesting thing yesterday was the Spanish dinner or "cena del día de la Hispanidad" (here, any excuse is good enough to organize an event). We were about 30 people and we cooked typical Spanish food (Mediterranean salad, Spanish Omelette, Tomato soup or "gazpacho", typical Canary dessert...). Everything was delicious and we enjoyed very much!

Now, I´m going to the gym, as usual, to so LBT ("GAP" in Spain): "toning class focusing on those
problem areas from the waist down" (activenation.org.uk). I will tell you when I came back.

xoxo