This blog has two sides. A typical day in Glasgow and a not so typical day in Glasgow. Let me first start with the typical day, Tuesday 6 December:
7.30am: Alarm goes off. I have to wake up to go to my tutorial. I’m very sleepy since I stayed way too long on facebook the night before. Nonetheless I have to go since all tutorials are compulsory.
9.00-10.00am: My tutorial started at 9am and we discussed the Benetton Unhate campaign which is released last month. Benetton is well-known for its ethically controversial advertising. In this campaign they show world-leaders kissing each other. For example, Obama with the Paramount Leader of the People’s Republic of China, Chancellor of Germany and President of France, Supreme Leader of North Korea and President of South Korea. The most shocking one got withdrawn, namely: The Pope kissing Imam.
After 45 minutes the tutor got bored, since we weren’t active in the discussion so she sent us home. At my flat I ran into Christina my flatmate: “Turn around! We’re going to Marketing Communications!” I just wanted to go to bed!
10.00-11.00am: This class was very interesting in the beginning of the year until we got a new professor. A Chinese guy with a very thick accent! Instead of having class with approximately 100 fellow students we now have class with at most 20 students. Even I turned on my laptop to go on facebook and Christina was looking for a plane ticket to fly back home in January.
11.00-12.00am: After class I made some lunch.
12.00-1.00pm: Again a class, Management of Sales Operations! This is my busiest day, since I have 3 classes! But it all pays off since I don’t have any classes on Monday and Friday! For this class I have an amazing professor! A typical American Salesperson. However, the professors switched again and now I had a woman who isn’t interactive with the class and reads the lecture slides out loud. I was fighting not to fall asleep!
1.00-2.00pm: Finally I had time to do a nap!
2.00-3.30pm: I did some studying. However facebook is my worst enemy! I get so easily distracted, especially when a handsome Mexican guy talks to me…
3.30-4.00pm: I went to Aldi with Carol my flatmate to get some groceries.
4.00-5.00pm: Gossip time with my flatmates! Girls talk a lot! But my flatmates would kill me if I go into details.
5.00-8.00pm: Studied, Sent a few mails, skyped with my parents, cleaned my room a bit, done laundry. There is a laundry office on campus. The wash machines take 38 minutes and cost 2 pounds and the dryers take 50 minutes and cost 1 pound. So doing laundry takes me in total around 2 hours!
8.00pm: TUESDAY PIZZANIGHT!!! Domino’s pizza has every Tuesday 2 for 1. So the last few weeks we’re having pizzanight on Tuesday with some of the girls. You can even choose half/half pizza, which is amazing! Tomorrow will be our last tuesdaynight all together since Carol won’t come back in January.
11.00pm: I said goodbye to the girls who came over to have pizza, checked my facebook, watched some youtube clips (Jenna Marbles is amazing! Check her channel out!) and slowly went to bed.
Now…. the not so typical day in Glasgow, Thursday 8 December:
News item:
“CRAZY WEATHER in Scotland ... wind, rain and hail...
PARTS of Scotland have been battered by stormy winds which have closed schools, disrupted transport and prompted warnings for drivers to stay off the roads.
Glasgow was one of the worst-hit areas, with 71mph wind recorded at lunchtime. The University of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian University are closed, as are all public museums, galleries, sports centres and libraries.”
PARTS of Scotland have been battered by stormy winds which have closed schools, disrupted transport and prompted warnings for drivers to stay off the roads.
Glasgow was one of the worst-hit areas, with 71mph wind recorded at lunchtime. The University of Glasgow, Strathclyde and Caledonian University are closed, as are all public museums, galleries, sports centres and libraries.”
At 12 o’clock the University and the Library closed, because it was too dangerous for students to come to the University and to give students and staff the possibility to go back home since public transport would close at 1pm. We even got a mail that we weren’t allowed to open our windows and that it would be a wise thing to do to stay at home. So I lay in my bed almost all day, lazy from the weather. Good thing is that now I’m still alive!!!
Cheers!
Great thoughts you got there, believe I may possibly try just some of it throughout my daily life.
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