Tuesday, Wednesday and hard Thursday

On Tuesday, I just have one-hour lecture of Newspaper, Magazine and online Journalism. As I told you I liked it a lot! I think it´s my favourite subject right now and apart from being really interesting the professor is nice and helpful. He told us to do an assignment for Wednesday and I became a little bit nervous because it was the first one. Anyway, he understood my "Erasmus situation" and told be not to be worried. We had to read a paper about Randall´s news criteria (Randall, D; The universal journalist 3rd ed, 2007) and compare it with the front page splash of a local newspaper. I chose the Daily Echo and I could see how the main piece of news fulfilled the Randall´s rules of newsworthines. It was a very enjoyable activity and I will tell you about my feedback.

Although I only have 3 hours of Making Magazines on Wednesday, I was busy because this week is my turn to clean the shared kitchen and dining room so I woke up and I did some houseworking. Afterwards, I decided to go to the library I had been advised to read some articles about specific subjects to understand them better.
We hadn´t talk about going out, actually, I was a little bit tired after my 3-hour lecture (by the way, I realised that I had another lecture on Tuesday and my coordinator hadn´t told me anything about that. So yes, I missed two importante classes and I have one hour lecture more). However, Miriam told me that we should go out because there was a party in Oceana, the biggest disco of Southampton and we couldn´t miss it. Eventually, we decided to go there and it was really good although there was a concert and we didn´t know who the singer was lol.( I download some photos)

And here you have, that´s why I´m so tired today. Besides, I have been 6 hours at the uni in a stressful day. I say that because the unit Global Media Industries is really hard for me. Actually, it´s interesting and I like it but we have to do so much work. Today we talked about "Neo-liberal" and "Keynesian" theories and it´s quite tricky having into account that it´s, obviously, in English. Anyway, I hope I will succeed.
Now, I have just had dinner with my flatmates and it´s Skype time. Then I will follow reading "Eat pray love" by Elisabeth Gilbert and I will go to bed because tomorrow my first lecture is at 9!! See you all
xoxo

My day off

As I tell you, Monday is my day off so today I decided to wake up early and go shopping because my fridge was empty. I went to ASDA, the cheapest supermarket here, in Southampton (I hate go there because it´s far from my residence if I want to buy heavy stuff). Then, I met some of my friends and we went enquire about some gyms. We are interested in joining in any but we are looking for the best price. Among all of them, we´ll choose the closest or the one that is more convincing for its facilities.

I had lunch quite late and then I talked to my relatives on Skype (essential program if you're out and want to communicate freely).

If you want to do something interesting in Southampton you have to rush because stores close too early and after 6.30 there´s almost anybody in the street. So I called Miriam and Evelin to turn around and walk until dinner.

Now, I am in the residence and I am going to bed soon.

Tomorrow I want to wake up early and go to the university to print some slides from my units. I´ll talk to you then.

Good night. xoxo