So I haven’t left the country yet and I am already getting the impression that studying in a foreign country is a lot more complicated than remaining at a home institution. In this blog I have laid down my dramatic, probably uncommon, event which transpired over the weekend of late:
I got an e-mail on Friday from Stirling’s International Office which informed me that the courses I had originally wanted to be enrolled in had been mixed up. It turned out I had been registered for British Literature courses and ZERO history courses (for those who do not know what I do at school... I am majoring in History and GRS, not literature!!). I basically freaked out and got all worried because all of the history courses I had wanted were fully subscribed by now L I was also sort of upset because one of my initial thoughts had been: "Oh GOD I am going to come back to UVIC and want to change my major to English!"
Alas, this morning I got an e-mail informing me that they were going to fix it... and then I got even better news that a course about the Scottish War of Independence was being offered this fall and that they were going to try and enrol me in that course. So I am keeping my fingers crossed because who doesn’t want to learn about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in Stirling (BRAVE HEART)!!???
If it turns out I can’t be enrolled in that course, I am still excited because I am taking a literature course called “Victorian Literature and Culture,” and one of the books featured on the syllabus is written by my favourite author Thomas Hardy J
Then for history I am taking “Kingship and Nationhood: Scotland from 1100-1500 C.E.”
PRETTY FREAKING STOKED about the archaeology sites I am going to be volunteering at too J
I got another e-mail this morning from the site manager who is associated with Stirling Archaeology Council... it turns out I might be working at a 15-16 Century Abbey Craig J
SOOO freaking pumped J
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