It's Complicated

I figured I should actually post about what you are actually following this for :). This post may seem a bit negative at first glance. Don’t worry. I really am enjoying it here. This is just me letting my ironic nature and tendency to complain run free.

I, finally!, have been registered for all my classes. I thought I was done the first Thursday, but apparently I needed to register with a department separately to be recognized. I kid you not. Here it takes around a week for things to update on the computers, and the school is so old departments have their own rules. You have to sign up for tutorial with them (small group that meets once or twice a week). I spent the first four days without email due to me being an idiot and not writing my password down. I spent the next week without the moodle equivalent, or a timetable of classes. In retrospect iswas kinda funny and not at all tragic because……

Only thing not complicated here is being an actual student after registering. The students here go out more in a week then a group of 18 year olds in Mexico for a month. It’s quite frankly amazing and they don’t have any qualms about being drunk in public, unlike the rest of Europe. In class it’s even more apparent. A girl answered her cell phone and STARTED TALKING in class. Today the professor actually had to halt a lecture for late students, so they could cram into a crowded auditorium. That would have been less sad if there hadn’t been four groups of them. One friend is in a chemistry class and a fellow student said he could probably have understood the class better if he wasn’t still drunk. I am pretty sure it was the middle of the week. They also complain about work like nothing I’ve seen. I can’t even complain that much. My politics class requires two papers, not long ones -maybe four pages; they thought this was an unjustifiable amount of work. Considering the only other thing in the class is one test, I almost rolled over laughing. I really hope none of them exchange to America and take biochemistry.

Last weekend I went to a castle about 15 miles away. Catching a bus is really common here. You’d think it would also be fairly easy to do. Nope. First of all when they moved the bus station to the other side of a shopping station they didn’t put up a sign informing people. Second they didn’t post times, busses, or bus port numbers anywhere in the station. When we figured out we needed 109 or 107 and it was in space 2 we had an additional issue. Space 2 wasn’t marked it was skipped over to space 4. Space on was a sheet of paper on a window, and we found a very faded space 3 ten minutes later. We wound up jumping on bus 117, which we didn’t know was a possibility and following 109 bumper to bumper for about thirty minutes. Evidently, their bus routes are complicated to. It was worth it though to see this……

Although we didn’t get to go in….because they posted the wrong closing time. I mean, really?

(Of course the route to get there was uncomplicated-The blue in the picture is water. The path was about 1.5 feet wide and three miles along the cliff)

There are so many things her that fall into the category of complicated it’s not even funny. I need to stop before this becomes epic. If you want entertainment wiki British politics and try and figure out how a party can have a huge majority of seats in parliament while only getting 35% of the vote. Also, if you like this post, tell me. I can complain like this four hours if it’s actually amusing people.

Ps. Here is where I live….

PSS-and hers what they think a police car should look like

Cheers!