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LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE
IN THE GOOD WAY
BOO YAH!
I'll know the conditions once they send the letter through, but here's hoping! FINGERS CROSSED, EVERYONE. >o<;;
On the other hand, with the vote for student fees to rise going ahead... orz;;; this is going to be costly, but IT'S WORTH IT!!
IN THE GOOD WAY
BOO YAH!
I'll know the conditions once they send the letter through, but here's hoping! FINGERS CROSSED, EVERYONE. >o<;;
On the other hand, with the vote for student fees to rise going ahead... orz;;; this is going to be costly, but IT'S WORTH IT!!
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:24 pm (UTC)... And oh god, yeah, I just read the news about the fees. DDDD: WTF Britain? All you're doing is losing potential and creating future debtors. Not cool!
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:29 pm (UTC)Exactly, that's why there are protests about it, though it's gotten violent... when they heard it was going through, they started setting things on fire. Not good...
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:35 pm (UTC)Ungh, yeah, I heard about that too... and they attacked Prince Charles, right? =__= That just makes them the "evil" side.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:38 pm (UTC)... apart from the fact nobody really likes Charles anyway. BUT that isn't the point. You're right, it is just making them the evil side. It's not going to make them listen to you if you riot like that...
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:42 pm (UTC)Indeed, not helping your case at all... And even if nobody likes him, you can't attack him like that.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:45 pm (UTC)They've vandalised Churchill's statue, set Parliament Park benches on fire, and they're attacking the mounted police now. It's kind of scary, I really hope nobody gets too badly hurt. If it gets too violent, and shots are fired...
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:50 pm (UTC)DDD: That's laaaaame. I really hope so too. Unggh, that sounds like it could get really nasty.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:52 pm (UTC)Speaking of things that don't make sense, the protesters just set fire to the massive Christmas tree in Trafalgar Square. Why? Why?
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Date: 2010-12-10 12:01 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:26 pm (UTC)Damn straight it's worth it! University is awesome!:D Also, the longer you stay in education the higher the chance that the recession will be over by the time you graduate. :P
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:30 pm (UTC)Are you at uni at the moment? Lololol yes the recession... and even if it's not, if I go to Japan the conversion rate is pretty good.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:41 pm (UTC)Yeah, I'm in Second Year atm...studying French, German and Japanese, I'm not very good at it though.:( Uni's fantastic, I made more friends that I actually had shit in common with there than I ever did in secondary school XD.
And yes, Japan's always an option :D. From what I hear they're always looking for English teachers.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:47 pm (UTC)It sounds like a load of fun, meeting a lot of people on the same course as you in your class, as well as the people in Halls and the like... I can't wait! Though I'm not much of a party girl.
It's such a popular language over there! Though I'm probably going to confuse them with using English spellings rather than American.
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Date: 2010-12-09 11:56 pm (UTC)There's always a few people who don't like partying, you won't be on your own.:D Also, I don't know what Oxford is like, but I made most of my friends in my Japanese class...idk, people who study Japanese tend to be more fun.:D Clubs/societies are good for friend-making as well.
Yeah, I think there's some rule that they all have to study English from middle school onwards. Meh, I don't think the spellings will make much of a difference...I think?O.o I have to do a TEFL course before I go to Japan, I'll let you know what they say about it then.:P
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Date: 2010-12-10 12:03 am (UTC)I'm sure there'll be a manga society somewhere, what with part of the Japanese course being about modern Japanese media (ie manga and anime hehe). I'm not the type to get drunk or anything, so maybe if I can just hang out with people.
If not the spellings, then the terminology... "pants" vs "trousers". Though the latter would be easier for a Japanese person to say, considering パンツ vs トラーウザース... Oh yeah, TEFL, I'm planning to do that! Wouldn't it be weird if we ended up in Japan at the same time?
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Date: 2010-12-10 12:24 am (UTC)There probably is one somewhere in your college.:D If there is one definitely join it, the people there are usually really nice and there's often a good few that don't drink, so it's less pressure :D. I mean, I wasn't into anime at all until I joined the one in my uni WHAT HAS IT DONE TO MEEE OTL
Well learning different terminology will probably be good for them.:D Plus it would help them to hear English-speaking accents that weren't American, apparently they find some non-American accents hard to understand...
Apparently TEFL is compulsory in my uni if you're going on a teaching placement abroad, so I'm doing it in December.:D Do you go to Japan as part of your course?O.o
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Date: 2010-12-10 12:28 am (UTC)Well, we did set one up at college before, but it dissolved not long before exams, what with nobody being able to attend. Too busy... JOIN THE DARK SIDE, WE HAVE YAOI
Well if one presented a Japanese person with a Scottish person, I can see how it would be hard to understand them XDDDD Oh god that's actually really funny, imagining Kiku trying to understand around James' accent.
We go in the 3rd year of my course! We're allocated a university in Japan and we go and live and study there for a year, paid for by the uni! We get an allowance and everything!
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Date: 2010-12-10 12:49 am (UTC)Ours grew out of the Games Society about 2 years ago, still going strong what, no cookies?:P
Oh God I can see his confused face XD. He'd totally pretend he could understand while avoiding actually giving James an answer. Meanwhile Scotland's trying to get a straight answer out of him and England's in the corner snickering because he knows exactly what the problem is but watching James suffer is too funny.XD I think Áine lucked out, apparently the (standard) Irish accent is really easy for Japanese people to understand...as long as we speak slowly. Which we're not very good at. So she'd be chatting away and Kiku would be trying frantically to keep up with her XD. Wonder what Wales would do?O.o
I AM SO JEALOUS OF YOU RIGHT NOW >.< In my uni we can't go study in Japan we can only go on work placement. We get to go on Erasmus in Europe for a semester though.:D
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Date: 2010-12-10 01:00 am (UTC)Lol like the mutant geek baby it is... There are cookies. You eat them off the yaoi boys. >3
Aww poor Kiku, trying to understand all these accents. Wales might be harder than Aine's but easier than Scotty's, since Welsh accents puts all these stresses on syllables that Japan wouldn't be familiar with but it's still not as unintelligible as Scotty's. But one day, Kiku will come face to face with drunk!England's Geordie accent. And lulz will be had.
Ooooo~ We'll all be jetsetting all over the place. /googles Erasmus
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Date: 2010-12-10 01:14 am (UTC)It's like a conjoined twin. Most of the members of the Anime and Manga Society are also members of the Games Society. And a lot of them are also in the Chess Club. It's like the Holy Trinity of Nerddom :P of course! But won't they mind us interrupting?
English must be like one of the hardest languages ever, there's like six or seven "Standard" versions. Haha, or his Cockney accent.:P Poor North's shit outta luck, his accent's almost harder to understand than Scotty's.:(
Yep! Good times will be had by all!XD Er, Erasmus is an EU programme that gives you a grant if you go and study in an EU country. European Mobility I think it's called. From what I've heard it's not that big in the UK damn Euroskeptics...:P
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Date: 2010-12-10 05:25 am (UTC)Conditions?
Ew rising fees.