Today (the first day of July) is the horizon of a month of solid work - this trip has been more work than my whole last semester of uni!
My flight leaves on Tuesday at 4:00pm from Perth airport, I arrive at Singapore airport at 9:30pm, then hop on another plane at 11:30pm to Heathrow, and after a total nineteen hours flying I will finally arrive in the UK! From London I will catch a train to the city of Cambridge, where I am staying my first three nights at a B & B. From there I will move to St Catharine's College, where I will spend the rest of my stay in the UK.
I'm feeing moderately prepared, I still have to buy currency and some phone credit for my travel sim card. Today has been mostly dedicated to tying up loose ends, buying last minute items, writing everything I'll need to know in my notebook, working on essays for the classes I'm taking.
I will be attending four different specified classes, two per week, plus attending plenary lectures. A typical day in the first week will look like this:
Monday 9th July:
From 7:45am - Breakfast in my college
8:55-9:10am - Introduction to the Literature Summer School
9:15-10:45am - Special subject courses - for me this is the class Shakespeare and Love
11:15am-12:15pm - Plenary lecture GH0 Triumphs and disasters: Declaring love: the danger of disaster
2:00-3:30pm - Special subject courses - for me this is Adapting Austen
4:00-4:30pm - Information for evaluation-takers - this is for students who are submitting essays to be marked for various classes, which includes me
And that will be a typical day at Cambridge!
They really know how to work people, fortunately I have three days to recover from jet-lag before I have to start using my brain again :-)
~ Jemimah
