#40 - more confirmation

Today I received mail from Nancy! Yay! It basically says that my place has been reserved and some info about arriving and such things. If you want to look at the summer course I am doing, just click on the link below.

http://www.france-summercourses.com/

So now both my summer courses are confirmed, which is a good thing! All that is left is to make sure I have everything I need to go there!

Now I just have to be thinking about finding somewhere and somone to live with in Birmingham for next year...

#39 - Confirmation

I have recieved confirmation from the univeristy in Aachen and I have now completed the registration! I will be sent more information later on before I get to Germany. Click here if you want to find out more about the course: www.spraachen.de

As for France, I have applied online and sent off the initial deposit, but have heard nothing back (nothing at all) from Nancy. So I don't know if the online application worked. If I hear nothing by the end of the week then I am contacting them.

That's about it for now. Not much else has been happening concerning my year abroad other than that I have handed in and finished all my essays to Birmingham and hopefully I will get good marks!

#38 - that was fast!

I have now got a place reserved at the summer course at Aachen. WOW! They responded the next day, so it was kind of really easy! Just a case of filling in a form! Now I just have to have my dad transfer money into the school's account and it will be all sorted! So in August I'm going to Germany - along with some cool weekend trips around Europe included in the course!

Also tonight we filled out the form for Nancy summer course. It was a simple form online and we paid a deposit. I hope that I will have a reply in my email by tomorrow, or at the very least by the end of the week.

During the next week I need to focus on some essays for my Japanese department. It is an essay of 3000 words in English and a project of 2000 Japanese characters. I have more or less done the first essay, I just have to think up what I want to write about for the Japanese one (comparing something in Japan to something in England). It is kind of hard to think about...

#37 - Now we're getting somewhere...

Finally I am beginning to piece together how to actually do summer courses. I am going to be sent information from my uni about a summer course in Nancy in France, so I am just waiting for that.

As for German, it is a real pain. I have repeatedly asked the woman in charge in my German department and found nothing out except that I have to do everything on my own and apply to German universities. That is as much information as I have. I don't know if there are any time requirements or class requirements or anything. But I have written to a place in Aachen and I recieved an email back today saying they have a few places left, and I have an application form! So I will be filling this out today and hopefully getting a place! If not...well then there isn't any other courses I have foudn that I can do... So I really really really really really want to get into this one. I have been talking to a friend who is in Aachen at the moment and she seems to be having a good time, but did say that it is mainly a student town and not very touristy.

So. Things are generally starting to move. I jsut hope it goes more smoothly and nothing bad happens, because if it does, then it really will end my degree.

Wish me luck!

#36 - checklist!

I have just today finished off and sent off in the post the essay and project I had to do for French for my year abroad. Which is great! I tried to spend as much time as I could thinking of valid points to put in and to make it good but we shall see how it turns out! Now I can relax a while before the end of the month when I have to send off my Japanese essay and project!!!
I should shortly receive information about a summer course in Nancy from my tutor. I thought it would be a good idea to go back to France for a little while (not back to Strasbourg) to make sure that my level of French is nice and steady.

I still havn't heard anything about applying for German summer course.

#35 - some good news

Following a meeting with a couple of people at Birmingham and with my dad also, I may have some assuring news! I am filing mitigations for my time in France with the doctor's note that will be ready tomorrow. My good news is that my French residency requirement could be waived, meaning that not going to Strasbourg not mean that I can't go into final year.

We have also been discussing whether or not I could or should do a summer course for France as well as Germany. I think it would be goodas I hardly spoke any French in Strasbourg and also to get hopefully a more happier end to 'France'. I should decide this week whether I would like to do one or not.

I also have a form for extension on my essay deadline which is Friday! I didn't have access to anything relevant in Strasborug as well, so I may request up to a month. In any case, I will not be able to finish it by then!

#34 - woi!

I have been to see the doctor this morning about possible anxiety or depresseion. It runs in the family unfortunately. But he is going to write me a note that I can show to Birmingham uni about my time for France which helps because I am going to submit some mitigations, and hopefully have the French residency requirement waived. If not then it's almost certain that I will not be able to finish my degree. I am going back to Birmingham again tomorrow to speak with someone else in the French department and see if anything else has happened.

Essay deadline for French is soon, on Friday. I have done almost 500 words out of 3000. It is going slowly...but I am pleased with what I have written so far - even though it is only a very well written introduction to my essay!