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I quite like fridays because I get to go to the beautiful Regent street campus

there's something so peaceful about sitting in a dead quiet library as it gets dark outside.



Now, back to work!

getting on...

interesting thing happened yesterday. I was in the large lecture theater for the working in bioscience module. A rather 'bling' looking bird sat down next to me and we chatted about this and that (you know the usual what course are you in, where do you live, blah blah...) turns out she's moved here to study Biomedical sciences because her husband is going to uni in london and they are lucky enough to have a flat of their own in golder's green. Very lucky indeed.

So, she then turns to me and says ' you seem a lot older than the rest of us'

'Yeah I'm ancient' I said upon which she asked my my age and I answered.

'oh that's not too bad' she said as if to say 'well done for making it that far' or 'you look a lot older'.

Wait it gets worse.

Later on she asked my why Ive decided to go to university now. (as if to say what on earth has prompted you to get educated just before you die of old age)

I found this hysterical for several reasons. Firstly because I'm certainly not the oldest person there, nowhere near. Also because in my mind, and this is something I strongly believe, 18 is too young to go to uni! And i might add if my american friend is reading it is certainly too young to get married.

Now I'm not one for slagging off people on my blog so this is just an anecdote from my amazing London life. An observation if you may.

Oh and that's another thing I love about London; you can meet an individual one day and then never see them again. If you are lucky...;)

First lecture

So, the challenge has begun, I had my first lecture yesterday and although they're easing us in to it fairly gently I'm still excited about this huge mountain I'm about to climb. Yesterday we had working in Bioscience, a great way to start off the week and this morning we had a long lecture in Health and Nutrition. It was such good fun and so interesting! A lot of it was familiar but there was also some new things as we got an overview of what is to come. It will be followed by Working in Bioscience tutorial and an English Screening, which starts now.

Bring it on!

so, London

a pic taken with my new phone outside uni:)

so it's London again and although I haven't even been here a week I find myself falling into place in this giant jigsaw puzzle. It really is such an amazing puzzle to be a part of, so big and scary, yet friendly.

In spite of a 'minor' hickup with my paperwork I'm settling in to uni ok and
teaching starts on monday. I get a free choice module next semester and had to pick either 'dilemmas in bioscience'- the easier choice and certanly more interesting, mostly debate- based or 'drugs an therapeutics', a far more difficult module but may be more practical in the future. Which one do you think I chose?