University has started again which means queuing up, trying to sort out modules and settling into new classes. To my delight, the trees in the courtyard of uni are full of orange dots: it's satsuma season! Apparently in summer they have to put barriers up under the trees beacuse the when the satsumas/manderines fall they could hurt people. Apart from the excitement that we have
orange trees in my university and
palm trees right outside (something that makes a part of me feel like I'm continuously on holiday), one of the great things about being on erasmus is that huge range of subject we can choose from. This year I've been able to try things I wouldn't be allowed to in England, where we follow the modules that make up our degree with little flexibility outside our speciality.
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| Orange trees at Uni |
I'm the only erasmus student in my Biblical Hebrew class. The class is small, but the subject is obligatory for those studying arabic and hebrew, so the teacher started the class by asking who was studying which language. He then looked at me, the only one who hadn't raised their hand: "...And you, what do you study?" "I'm erasmus" "Oh, you're here for
fun?". He asked me my name and smiled as "Rachael" (or Raquel as I said) comes from Hebrew. Changing the subject onto himself, office hours and how we could contact him outside of class, our teacher was then quick to point out that the name that had appeared on the list of modules - Magdalena - was his surname and not his first name, as it's a girl's name. I think it's funny because, although I guess the origin of the name is probably more serious (Mary Magdalene in the Bible perhaps), here magdalenas are cupcakes.
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| Gardens at Uni |
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