As those of you who have been paying attention will have picked up, this year is my “year abroad”, the third year of my four year degree course that should be spent in the countries whose languages I am studying.
I’ve done my time in Egypt (studying Arabic at the University of Alexandria), and for the [...]
… coming soon.
Tomorrow, probably.
An Egyptian Tomorrow, that is.
Which means sometime before Christmas.
Insh’allah.
Sorry, did I say Christmas? I meant Easter.
Easter 2009.
bukra, f’il mishmish, as these Arab chappies say. Tomorrow, in the apricot season.
I saw the most prescient advert ever on BBC2 last night:
Blah Blah Blah Blah “On no, not revision!” Revision sending you to sleep? Try Bitesize from the BBC.
Any chance of the Beeb introducing first-year honours degree revision guides for Arabic?
Please, pretty please.
I wish I could be bothered to blog about this General Election.
If you look at what I wrote about the US Presidential Election six months ago, and then at how much I’ve written about this one…
There’s something about British politics at the moment (or ever, for that matter) that seems boring. I can understand why [...]
Is it because I lied when I was 17? Huh?
Today was a perfect example of British weather.
I had four classes today, with a gap between each, so I could go back to my room and do some work.
Whenever I was about to leave my room to go down to Elvet Riverside, it was nice and [...]
It’s sunny.
It’s hot.
It’s a Bank Holiday.
So why do we have to go to lectures today?
Durham is full of tourists in shorts and t-shirts eating ice creams, and we have to sit in a room in Elvet Riverside revising Arabic verb forms, watching people go past in boats, on what must be the hottest day of [...]
OK – this is a cop-out, but I’m just posting a (suitably edited) post from Christmas…
At uni, where I’m supposed to be working hard, I managed to blog pretty much every day.
During the Easter holidays, when I’m supposed to be relaxing and not doing (quite as much) work, I’ve blogged very infrequently.
Why? Well… I dunno. [...]
I got a bizarre spam today – one which shows particularly well how clever spammers have become.
Basically, the message was made up of a couple of HTML tables to split up the key words – which means that many spam filters can’t read them properly.
But the interesting bit was that at the bottom of the [...]
Apparently, the Formula 1 season has started again. Fortunately, I’m not home at the moment, so I don’t have to hear JJ whittering on about it all the time. Unfortunately, I will be home in a fortnight (woohoo!), just in time for the next Grand Prix.
Anyway, I’m told that a certain Canadian chap didn’t do too well today (started in 4th, finished in 13th).
Formula 1 just isn’t the same since Murray Walker stopped commentating. So for a bit of nostalgia, I thought I would reproduce some classic Walker-isms