I´M BACK

Hello everyone. First of all, happy New Year! I hope that 2011 brings you good times and exciting projects. Although I arrived at Southampton on Saturday, classes didn´t start officially until yesterday. I spent almost all day at university because I had to meet with several teachers to discuss the subjects of this semester.I´ve been also working on the travel magazine I have to do for Wednesday. I was spending the day like that, nothing really exciting. I have many problems setting up my new schedule because many of the subjects coincide and I have to change everything in order to fix it. Therefore, I´m afraid I have to change Political Communication, which seemed really interesting for me and I´ll probably choose Inside Multimedia News. Anyway, I´m not sure about this decision so I will tell you what I´ll do a.s.a.p. This week is quite light because some of my classes have already finished and we handed in our projects so we should just wait for the feedback. On Thursday, I have the Court visit. I´ll go with my classmates and lecturer of Broadcast Journalism to see if we can find any piece of news in the Justice Palace. I´ll also tell you about this experience. This everything at the moment.

Keep in touch,
xxx

My first class

I talked to my coordinator and she said to me that everything is OK if I want to do another English class so tomorrow I´ll go to have my Learning Agreement signed in.

My first class was good because I could understand almost everything the professor said. We were about 15 students ( It is a quite notable fact because Spanish universities often have more students in each class) and it was just and introduction of the subject. I was a little bit worried when the professor started to talk about the work we have to deliver. I'll have to work hard because I have to write several press releases, write a story and a column of opinion but I hope to succeed with this course.

In short, I can say that I liked it =). And now I´m  going to sleep ( actually, today I´m not going out because tomorrow I have to get up early). My next class: Communication in Organisations.


I will tell you. xoxo

The expected start

Although I have been here for about one month, this week is the most important one. The university starts. Actually, I should have started yesterday but, fortunately, Monday is my day off so today, at 15.00 my 3rd year at Solent University starts officially.

I came here on Wednesday, 1st and I have been attended to English Classes at Lewis School (http://www.lewis-school.co.uk/), near my University. I could learn lots of things, and what´s most important,  I had the opportunity to review the English which I had abandoned since the end of second year of Journalism.

After having finishing these two weeks, I fully intruded in the university: "Freshers´ week" ( the term that UK universities and colleges give to the period immediately before beginning of a new academic year. Its purpose is to give new students a chance to meet their housemates, make new friends and sort out administration tasks, http://www.freshers-week.com/). And so did I. We were talking to our Erasmus coordinator who explained to us everything we has to know about the university and Southampton in general. It was a week plenty of meeting to establish our Learning Agreement,enrol and register in the university, get our student card and inform on the activities and sports offered by Solent. All this followed by a myriad of parties. 

Although it was a good opportunity to meet new friends and I have already made some in Lewis School and I could travel with them during my first two weeks. We went to London and Bournemouth ( I will upload some photos for you to see how well we had there)

Now I have to go. I need to meet my coordinator again because I have to finish my Learning Agreement and send it to my home university. Afterwards, I will be attended to my first class: Newspaper, Magazines and online Journalism. Wish me luck! xoxo