sleep eat study beer besos sleep eat study

ok ok I knew what I was getting myself into before I started but even so it's a bit of a culture shock. It wasn't that long ago that I thought working Fridays was for suckers* and found time for siestas during my working day. Not now though, oh no it's all lectures, workshops and relentless inforbloodymation. Well actually tomorrow's timetable is ok and Wednesday isn't too bad. And I went for beers tonight (actually it was a meeting about teaching schoolkids about sex) and I have a meal with my teaching group tomorrow night.** But apart from that it's pretty busy. In fact I went in yesterday to catch up on stuff (week1 and I'm already a bit lost) and managed to cover a 3m by 2m whiteboard with notes. Slightly worrying.

Still it's only 5 weeks until my first exam and i quote, "if you know everything the exams will be fine."

That's the exam officer.

"If you can hold on until Christmas you'll be fine." That's the support officer.

Slightly nervous and more than slightly tired but it's interesting, it's the challenge I need and every time I step into a clinical scenario I get a buzz that this is what Ill be doing for the next 30 or 40 years.***




*working Fridays is definitely for suckers

** Have i mentioned that my yeargroup includes an olympian, several linguists, several international athletes and Matt damon's body double?

***if I pass the exams ;)

want!

(has an ebb so can run it ss)

SSWC

looks a helluva lot of fun



stolen from the Durango Herald

deeeeeeeeerby

Well we're in! Tinterweb is all sorted, bins cutlery and other stuff you never think of buying until you have to furnish a house. Uni is starting to gain momentum it's only been 4 days but already people have been telling us to have a life outside the course, make sure we get enough rest and that we will almost inevitably be pretty burnt out come christmas. *gulp*

Photography has fallen by the wayside for now, don't know my coursemates well enough to start snapping them (it'll come) so I built up my new/old 'cross bike and had a quick blast around the parks here. It's fricking awesome fun! Can't wait for a longer pedal although I'm not sure when that will be...

This isn't a million miles away from where we now live, saweeeeet:

A Cross The Peaks from Will Beresford on Vimeo.

beer, bikes and smiles

Seen a lot of my mates recently, in fact I'm just back from a banterful beer fuelled session, and it's been awesome. Missing friends back in Madrid really wish I could combine mates that are scattered across the continent but that's not to be so we count ourselves lucky we have such great friends in so many places. Meeting more mates again tomorrow, think I may have missed Johan though-by days it would seem :'(

tired

It's not even been 2 weeks but I already feel like I've been through the grinder. Student loan is probably going to be delayed (arse on the phone), bank loan is now up in the air (eejit on the phone), auntie is heading for radio and chemotherapy tomorrow (twat in the lab fucked up results) my vaccinations for uni are providing a never ending source of questions (no-ones fault just endless) can't get internet banking to work for account in Spain (probably my fault) plus we need to furnish a house and move the stuff several hundred miles south. (totally our own fault)

So I'm looking forward to uni* as I'll be able to get my head down and work like buggery rather than spend every day on the phone either on hold or chatting to twunts-one woman when I asked her how I would know if my loan had been approved said, "just hope for the best." To be fair there's not a whole lot more I can do.

Riding bikes on friday should help :D


*assuming loans appear at some stage and I have time after selling my body on the street

cease riding!

Well as ever things haven't quite gone to plan. Carla spoke to Orange last night about cutting us off as when she called a month ago they said just give them a ring when we were leaving. However, last night they said we needed to put it in writing 15 days before we left! Carla spoke to seeral people to no avail and ended up getting properly pissed off when they implied she was lying about her first phonecall. A letter is being written but it's entirely inkeeping with how shite customer service is here generally and how cack Orange are in particular.

I also spent an hour on the phone with student loan flk asking what it was they wanted as 'evidence of my partner's temporary work abroad' but the chap I spoke to had no idea. Some persuasion and a long time on hold and I eventually got the answers I needed* but an hour today plus 2 calls where I was on hold for 15 minutes will make a hell of a mark on our phone bill, let's hope it was worth it.

On a positive note yesterday's ride was ace and had planned to get up early and get a final pedal in but being tired as hell last night meant I was more than happy to stay in bed until half 10 this morning. So I changed my address at the bank, registered my details with vodafone (some new Spanish law) and had a look at trains to and from Derby and Escocia then spent an hour on the phone to student loan people. Now I'm packing a bike indoors with no air con and it's 34 degrees outside and my mates are at the pool :( Very, very tempted to get another pedal in but experience has taught me that an already angry Carla plus gratuitous bike riding only equals a world of pain for dave. Ah well, thanks Madrid you were fun to pedal in. Besitos x