Durham General Chat Thread

I only have 3 months now and then my year abroad is finished! Yahhooooo!

Part timer Non linguists have to stay abroad for longer if they're on a full Erasmus year.

I was talking to my cousin last night(she's at Oxford and did Erasmus as part of her Law degree last year in Paris) and I told her that I had reached the point where on the whole I was still enjoying it but that I also had a strong feeling that I wanted to come home... and she just laughed as she said it's how most feel when they're on Erasmus.

It is really a love hate relationship whilst you're abroad!

I wish I got a year abroad...we get the option of going to Prague but you have to be able to speak Czech...sadly I cannot speak Czech

Yay,lol.

I have friends doing languages who get to go to cool places like Syria,tis not fair

How come you don't want your year abroad?(if you don't mind me asking...)

Hmm Syria....dunno how cool that is!!
I just get überly homesick when I'm abroad, I miss all my family and friends and bf and Durham a lot and I spend most of my time planning visits to Durham or people coming out to see me to stop my homesickness...I try my best to enjoy myself though but I find the whole staying out until 5am thing really, really hard to adapt to as a) I'm not the biggest club-goer in the world to start with, especially with the music they play out here and b) I REALLY need my sleep. If I go out late then I need at least a week to properly recover my sleeping patterns and then the whole thing starts again...for example, I've spent the past 2 days sleeping until past 10am but I've been in bed by 11pm both nights. And I'm still not fully un-tired.
Argh.

I try my best to enjoy myself though but I find the whole staying out until 5am thing really, really hard to adapt to as a) I'm not the biggest club-goer in the world to start with, especially with the music they play out here and b) I REALLY need my sleep.

I'm glad to see that you're like me too Becca. I really miss just going out to the pub as a night out rather than going and doing shots before dancing until 7 am(it's later here) and I also miss everything not being dubbed if it's foreign too.

I went to Portugal last week and my friend and I had a wonderful time at the cinema as we saw a film in English with Portuguese subtitles, you'd never get that in Spain.

Yeah I think most things are dubbed in Italy too, not that I've been to the cinema here! But in France nearly everything was dubbed unless you went to the arty cinema and watched arty films.

I too really miss just going to the pub or doing a quiz. A quiet drink just doesn't exist here, which makes me sad. I like going out to clubs, but I don't want that to be the only thing there is to do.

Whereas in Britain no foreign films are dubbed eh... apart from dodgy old kung fu movies.



I'm not a club person at all, and the only concession I will make that way is a) either a indie dive b) Planet of Sound as all my friends go and it's great fun if you've got good company. I'm definitely a pub person, what with being involved in the setting up of the Real Ale Society last year. *Which I am delighted to say is taking off this year, slowly but surely I received a 'flyer' from a friend in the post today*

I'm quite excited this week as a friend has told me that there is a pub quiz at an Irish bar in Salamanca on Wednesday nights and it's in English, so I should be going to that. Other than that I don't really tend to go out unless it's to a friend's house because everything is so orientated towards clubbing.

Also I may also be going out for a curry next week, so there are highlights amongst my moaning.

Some of us have years abroad that count *shakes fist*, imagine me, a pu person in a country where it's illegal for me to buy alcohol....

I wish I got a year abroad...we get the option of going to Prague but you have to be able to speak Czech...sadly I cannot speak Czech

* mutter mutter* bloody linguists...

Aww, Kev, you're so cute with your Czech speaking!! When are you next going out there?

Some of us have years abroad that count *shakes fist*, imagine me, a person in a country where it's illegal for me to buy alcohol....

Kev, jak sie masz is Polish too... and is incidentally one of Borat's stock phrases along with djenkuwie(I don't think this is the correct spelling) with means thankyou.