Little Ivna and the City... Again... :)
Weeeeeeel, here I am again. My last post was about my trip to London back in November. And guess what... All my next posts for a while will also be about my trip to London. Yep, that's right, I decided to do my Master's in Events Marketing Management and for the next year or so I will be located in London... Yeeeeeeeeeeeey me! :-D
Anyway, I came to London at the end of January and have been settling in for the past two weeks, changing houses, cleaning, enroling with my course at the university, cleaning, having tons of introductory lectures covering both the university's services and facilities as well as covering the specifics of my course, cleaning, going out and - you guessed it - cleaning some more. LOL! :-))
I am currently living in the students' Hall of Residence called The Arcade. The building has self-contained flats with 4-6 people living in them. I am lucky to be in a flat with only 3 more people, all girls, so it's really not that bad. Though it did require a lot of cleaning to bring it into a state fit for people to live in. :-D The building is said to be a former prison, or - to be more politically correct :-P - women's correctional facility. None of the corridors in the building have windows so they get to be pretty stuffy all the time so all the tenants overcompensate for it by having windows in their rooms and kitchens open most of the time. Haha! Also, in the vicinity of the building are a) a police station and b) a hospital so police cars and ambulances with rotation lights and sirens are passing by our windows literally every minute (hey, this is a big city, with a big crime rate) so it gets pretty noisy. And it doesn't stop at night either... But it's ok! :-)
I have been having some trouble sleeping lately, seems like the excitement of moving to London that has eluded me the first week I was here finally kicked in - haha! - so my sleeping itinerary has moved from normal to the 6am-10am shift. :-S About two nights ago I finally managed to fall asleep at a normal hour (that being around 1am) when at 3.30am we were all woken up by a fire alarm, so all 500 people living in the hall had to go down the fire escape staircase and freeze for half an hour in the car park in front of the building until the Fire Brigade arrived to check the
building and switch off the alarm. Needless to say, the alarm was on during all that time, I really
wonder what the neighbours were thinking. Thinking of it now it really makes me laugh my ass off - people were being very creative at keeping themselves (and others) warm :-P, but - trust me - at the time there was really nothing funny about it. :-) Of course, the official explanation was that some people were smoking in one of the rooms and that triggered the fire alarm, but the fire alarm can't really be that sensitive, can it? As for myself, this was the first fire scare that I experienced in my life (at least as far back as I can remember) so was quite a strange experience.
The university I am studying at is the London Metropolitan University and has two campuses: one in the City (London's main business area) and one in the area of Holloway Road in north-east London, which is called the North campus and is where I am studying. It is the no. 1 choice university of international students in the UK and has approximately 36,000 students, out of which some 7,000 are international students. It is also one of the best universities in the UK in terms of sports achievements of its students in different inter-university competitions in many sports, headed by male and female tennis and female hockey. So far I am quite happy with the way students are treated and with the facilities they offer - there are 10 libraries available to students, a completely new IT centre with 280 computers and a Learning Centre that is open 12 hours a day on weekdays and 5-6 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Not to mention the Students' Services department that is always available and happy to help you with any problems you might have, including helping you resolve visa issues or find a part-time job as a student, and the unavoidable Students' Union and the clubs and societies it supports.
I'm guessing it should be a pretty fun filled year ahead of me. :-D :-D :-D
We were supposed to go on a boat trip to Greenwich today, but since it had been snowing two days ago and since then all we're having is rain, me and most of my new friends decided this morning it was way better to just stay in bed and lay around the house some more... Hahahah! Talk about a proactive attitude! :-) But there is time for that! :-)
Well, am off now, got to make some lunch and will be going out in the afternoon after all. If nothing else will just take a walk in the Covent Garden - so far it is my favorite part of London. But I'm sure there will be others as well as I continue discovering London.
See you all here again soon! And I will be posting some pics as well, as soon as I make some. Hahahaha! ;-)
posted by Ivna R. @ 1:47 PM
2 Comments:
Pa daj obavijesti narod da blogas...da nemam idle time na poslu, ne bi vidjela post jos mjesec dana...
Sva sreca da imas idle time na poslu... Hihihihiiiiiii! :-D
Ma zapravo sam cekala da napisem jos par postova pa da onda lijepo svima posaljem mail s linkom, jer ce me ljudi zamrzit zbog kolicine rijeci u mailovima... Hahah! :-) A sta mogu, ipak kroz godinu dana moram napisat disertaciju od 15,000-20,000 rijeci pa je valjda bolje da pocnem vjezbat... Hahahahahahaaaaaaa! ;-)
Pusssssssssssss beba!
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