January 27, 2009
Post 2: First 24-hours on campus.
Birkbeck Court, University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, UK
This has been a more than full day. I want sleep so bad, almost as much as I wanted sleep that first night in London. Instead, I am up, diligently working on this post, as the last was I have no idea how late. As an exercise in memory, my day feels like it happened in chunks. They occurred as follows…
January 15, 2009
Post 1: Pre-departure
Location: RDU International Airport
Raleigh, NC, USA
I don’t get all of the superlatives. Every time I talk to someone about their experience traveling abroad, it’s always the best of things. It’s all “super” and “fantastic” and “bloody brilliant.” The only bloody thing is how terrified I am.
Generally speaking, I’m actually okay. The emotions are mixed, excited and nervous, ecstatic and mildy nauseous. I couldn’t have written before sitting in the terminal, which, of course, I apologize for. I’ve forgotten basically everything I got before leaving, in regards to this course, but I feel like that was bound to happen. I’ve never liked going into anything completely blind, but this time around, I don’t think I should have a frame of reference. I’ve prepped for everything so far in life, and nothing’s done anything but change. Every plan has had to be reworked and edited and reconfigured. Continue reading…
November 14, 2008
Hello All!!!
In the “Pages” box to the right, you’ll see the different topics for your blog entries.
Make sure you put your name, date and location on each entry. The following information is pulled from the HSS310 syllabus.
Blog entries should:
▪ Describe your observations & your own experience while taking into account other people in the space (not just a to do list of what happened). You should focus on qualitative vs quantitative observation.
▪ Include date and location of the observation.
▪ Be done once each week (10 entries during your semester plus one entry before you leave the U.S. and one just before you leave the U.K.). The original observations don’t have to be typed directly into the computer, but should be blogged onto the computer within a week of the observation.
▪ Align with UNCG academic integrity policy
▪ Should be complete by May 5, 2009 (with the exception of your final entry which will occur just before you leave the UK).
