Geek

Today I realised what a total language geek I am, and I don't like it! I had a german, we were going through basic grammar definitions, like what a noun, verb, sentence etc is. But cos I've done all that in linguistics I was making it really complicated and adding stuff that wasn't really necessary so everyone in the the class must've thought I was a right geek, oh dear! And I got really annoyed with the definition of a sentence that was on the sheet, "group of words which make perfect sense". Technically that's not true, it's just a group of words which are grammatically correct, it doesn't have to make sense. So for example "Green colourless ideas sleep furiously" is a perfectly well formed grammatical sentence even thought it makes no sense whatsoever! I then realised this wasn't really relevant to the german class and I should stop being a geek! I was also really happy that we got homework, we have to write 10 lines about our family, yay!! (In german obviously...) So yeah everyone will now wonder why they bother being friends with such a sad person...

Beginning again

Yippee my first day of lectures and I have french grammar at 9am!!! It was quite a shock when my alarm went off so early, I was very nearly late cos I took so long to drag myself out of bed! But it's not all bad, I found out when I got into uni I don't have the seminars that I thought I did so I have fridays off :D

Going back

Tonight is my last night in the sleepy little village of Middleton, with it's one shop and two buses an hour...and strangely enough I'm going to miss it!
Urgh I have a nosebleed, argh!!! I'll try not to faint so I can finish typing this...
Anyway...I may have complained the whole summer about there being nothing to do here and being bored, but I'll miss the obvious things like my family and friends, and my new friends at church, and also being able to go for a walk over the hills whenever I feel like it, and seeing farm animals and being able to have my hand sucked by a calf (a very strange feeling!)... and just home in general. It's wierd but I think I'll miss it more than when I went away last year. But hey, I'll be in Manc this time tomorrow, I'll soon forget the country and all will be good again!

Cash in the attic

Yesterday I went to an auction cos they were filming cash in the attic there!! Unfortunately I don't think I'll be on tv cos we ended up standing in one of the only areas that wasn't being filmed :( At the start the auctioneer told people where they should stand if they didn't want to be filmed, which was where we happened to be standing, and we didn't want to move cos then it would've looked really obvious that we were only there to get on tv! It was quite funny watching the filming though, you realise how fake it all is, and we got to see some newsreader woman whose name I can't remember but I'm sure she's pretty famous!
I have no idea when it's going to be on tv so I probably won't even see it but it was an experience!

Ironic

The whole summer I've been really wanting to go back to Manchester and now I'm going back in a few days I don't want to...