Hi!! Soooo hectic. I'm now in week 5 of the second semester and I'm still surviving! Although there certainly aren't enough hours in the day to do even stop and breathe, I feel like, academically, this semester is going much better. I am actually interested in my courses, and I feel like I'm learning real Computer Science, so that's cool.
Eep, I hope I haven't just jynxed it.
But I'm doing Cryptology for example, it's quite hard work but it's really interesting so I am actually motivated to work. I'm also doing two subjects which need me to work on group projects (somehow I ended up being the coordinator for our Requirements Engineering group, ahem...) I'm also doing Data and Image Compression which is cool. A few of my courses have new Erasmus students in them who have asked the professors to teach in Spanish instead of Catalan, it's quite funny at times because they keep switching into Catalan by accident and then oopsydaisying and backtracking.
Still chugging away with the Catalan, although I've lost a bit of the enthusiasm for that and am really focusing my efforts on Spanish now that there are only a few months left here. Still I feel like I'm absorbing more and more, and I'm doing new things like watching “Friends” in Spanish, so progress progress!
So after having a telephone interview with Sun Microsystems back in February I got invited for an interview in person in London... this was for a job for summer. I haven't heard the outcome of that yet so I can't tell you anything, but I had a very flying visit back to Britain.
I had to miss one of my “Design of Web Based Systems Problems” classes, which are obligatory... I had explained to the lecturer that I wouldn't be able to attend, but said I would I would do the work and get someone else to hand it in for me. Basically though, he said if I didn't go to the class I couldn't get it marked, so it was like... err, screw you then.
I was back in Barcelona in less than 24 hours, it was nice to see the UK for a wee minute anyway. I do still love Britain!
So far this semester though my attitude has been kinda “surviving uni is enough, anything else is a bonus!” So I'm going out at weekends and having drinks with people during the week but it's not that crazy party-wise at the moment.
It seems like I brought nice weather back from London with me. The change seemed instant, and suddenly the weather is beautiful again! It's not roasting like it was in September, but it's certainly T-shirt weather! One day it was particularly toasty so I wore my shorts... my delightful Catalan teacher was like “humph, do you think this is summer or summin?” YES!
What are some of the other things I've been up to then? I went to a jazz conert at Jamboree at Plaça Reial which was really good and was shown this really non touristy bar with guitars hanging all over it, seriously everywhere, gone for cocktails and food, and I've had some great nights out and only one single flat party!
Stupid credit crunch is still making the € kick the £'s bottom. It's a pain.
Easter is coming though, and I'm getting more visitors!
