Well, it's coming towards the end of my first year on the degree course. I'm on assessment period and classes finished what seems like eons ago. I must admit I miss the classes. As for the assessments, it's been stressful, but I feel like I'm learning new things so that's pretty good. I feel like I've got a lot out of the year. I've learned lots, made new friends and generally feel like I've grown as a person. I think what I've liked most about the course is the literature side of it. I don't mind the language part, but to be honest I find it a bit uninspiring at times, although it did have its highlights. I really liked the part in our final Representation and Variation assessment where we had to compare dramatic speech with real speech. I don't know if I wrote a load of old rubbish or not, but I enjoyed it anyway. I like the way it made me think about how different the two were. I'll be glad when I've handed everything in though and I can have a bit of a rest. I've decided to go for a curry in Sheffield with my girlfriend to celebrate the end of the year and completing my assessments.
I'm really looking forward to next year. From what I've heard we're studying some literature that I'm already very familiar with and that I really like, so that should be really good. I also like the sound of the colonial stuff we'll be doing. I'm really looking forward to reading some new literature. I think that is what has been so good about the course, the new stuff that I've been exposed to; and my friends of course. If I'm to be honest this has been one of the best things that I've ever done. I feel like I've started a new life.