What's that? No camera? Gee, what a surprise.

Okay, I have been assured by my parents that my camera would be sent out ASAP. I have no idea if that actually happened yet, though. If it isn't here within a week, I might just buy a new one because dammit, THERE ARE THINGS OF WHICH I NEED TO TAKE PICTURES.

So here's the news .... there isn't much of it. I've been hanging out with friends and doing homework. Today I finished a paper that's due on Thursday, a 2,000 word essay on "How, and with what impact, did Renaissance ideas spread through Europe during the 16th century?"

Somehow, and I'm still not sure HOW, I managed to fit 24 typed pages of notes into 7.5 pages double spaced. I still have two more papers due in the second week of March, and then one in April.

And of course, it wouldn't be week for Monica if SOMETHING didn't go wrong. I was told when I first got here that I needed 60 credits to be a full-time student (the credit system is different here, whereas at home 12 credits is full time). Basically, each of my classes is worth 20 credits if I were taking the whole year. Since I'm only here for half-term, its 10 credits each. I have four classes, and was told that my work-based learning (like an internship) would be 20, or if I decided to do one of the writing modules as well, that would also be 20. So ... it would come out to sixty, yes? Well, maybe not. I turned in my class list this week (very late, I know. which was stupid of me but I kept forgetting to bring it to have it signed and I was told that the module (class) leaders had to sign it, and two of my classes have guest lecturers this term ... in the end I was finally told that I could have department head sign off on all them), and one of the lovely ladies said that I might be missing a course. Which I still don't understand!

I have forty credits so far. I don't have the sheet of paper that tells me how much the work-based learning would be, the each of the writing ones (Varieties of Writing or Research Methods for Writers) are 20 credits each. So I SHOULD be fine. I don't know why one of the international tutors is telling me I might be missing a course, and thus, I am freaking out a bit. I have to go in on Thursday to talk to my main tutor (which is really like an adviser, I think), and figure this all out.

As for the work-based learning, I'm not sure if I can get into something that I'll like. Which again is my fault, but I also didn't know I had to schedule a meeting with someone to talk about it/plan for it. I'm willing to accept the responsibility because I know I should have been on top of these things, but it would have been nice to be told that "hey, this is what you have to do for this, so you really should be doing it."

Now that I'm looking at it, I kind of want to do the "Research Methods for Writers". In order to pass it I need to have a 1,000 word Research Writing Diary and a 3,000 word Portfolio ... not sure exactly what it would entail but I'm sure I would find out.

Now I'm off to clean and eat food because well, I kind of forget to do those things when I'm writing papers. I'm quite famished.