Resident Tutors

This is how I met my Resident Tutors.

Coming down from the stairs after hanging out at the kitchen in Rootes. I say:

"...Aaahh...I just had three shots of vodka and two shots of whiskey and a glas of wine and guiness...."Clunk Clunk Clunk drinking Bacardi Breezer.

A girl and two guys all 20+ were standing there talking to my other friends. We get introduced.
"Hey, these are our tutors."

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University has started

So I will be writing on:

http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/janieshen/

Maybe I will update this blog sometimes as well. Just for the privacy. And I still love the layout... so keep in touch!

Absurd, Surreal. England!

I'm lying on a apricotic flowery bed in a room with sink. It's on the top floor of a little cottage. Called Arlon. In St. Patrick's Road. In Coventry. I have internet, and I'm going all ecstatic over it, I talk to people in Sweden. Tell them oh-my-god-i'm-in-england, and how wonderful it is. And they feel so far away. So far away from here, but also so far away from understanding.

I need to fix my camera, understanding is seeing. Pictures say more than thousand words. Typing this makes me feel very stupid now.

It really doesn't feel like the same day I said goodbye to Julian in the morning, the drive to Skavsta. The plane trip. The waiting for the bus. The long bustrip. The taxi to the guesthouse. The walk around the city. Dinner at Noodle Bar. Sitting in Coventry Cathedral and sinking into the the british atmoshpere. Did this all happen at once?

I love it here though. The town is so small you can walk everywhere, but the things are all crammed togethere. For example all the card stores and beside each other. The banks have their own road. Then there's fancy clothes stores. Mobile stores. Tons of shops! Also they have a cheap market, but that's a bit tacky. Didn't like it at all that much. There's this inconsistency in the town, unlike Sweden, there are really shabby parts right by really nice modern parts. The buildings are either 40s ugly blocks of grey, or modern architecture in harmony with environment à la Hammarby Sjöstad or the old gothic churches with their little windmill houses and cobbled streets. The benches are wide and all under big trees. The people are young and all university students. I can really feel like studying here actually.

Getting to know a place all over again is scary... but hell fun! I already feel like I know half the town, which places I would take you to if you visited me. But that's just a little bit, I haven't even gotten to the university yet. So, much more exploration to come!

Cold Feet, or Just Worried?

I can't believe I'm writing diary on my bed, with a beautiful laptop that purrs just slightly when turned on. My fingers on the typing board gives an extremely sophisticated ring to my ear, but then isn't this just a feeling we all got from watching to many Sex and the City. I can't believe I can have internet all the way in my room, without any connection to any socket. The waves seem (and does, really) travel through air. My laptop's not even connected into the electricity, right now it's running on battery. 4 Hours (!) it says when fully loaded. This is what we're talking about - freedom!

Freedom is another thing I will have plenty of in two days time. Can you believe it? Two more days. I got a cold sweat on the bus home after seeing Yang and Chiewi. I finally got the kick in the head, the "oh-my-god-i'm-really-leaving" bam bam bam. I said goodbye to Anna yesterday, today Jin-Jin came over and we said goodbye. I mean come on, people in my sister's kindergarten is saying goodbye to me! This does get one thinking... Tomorrow I will have a goodbye dinner with the best of my friends, then it probably will hit us all. We're really leaving. I think I haven't really wanted to think of this like that, and think of it at all because of Julian. When I got this WAH and GAH (haha, girls, remember the old days?) feeling on the bus, I was like how the heck are we going to say goodbye. Waking up 3 in the morning, all sleepy and tired and kiss each other and then bye? We drop Julian back at his place and then we say goodbye by the door? He falls asleep when he gets home and wake up in the morning... and I'm gone. Except we'll see each other in less than 2 weeks, but... I'm gone. I hope you guys will help me take care of him. I think he'll need you especially that first week (and I'm not even here for his bday!!!).

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About me. Today I managed to do a lot of packing, probably more than the whole two last week put together. I have sucked my duvet into a little bag, my sheets are all washed and clean. My cuddly heart and QQ-penguin is all stacked down. My room has actually started resemble a room, it feels so empty! Although comparedto normal people's room it's probably still very full. My new life will begin with caution, just like I won't download weird things into my laptop, I won't fill my bags with useless stuff. It's a wonderful feeling to be able to begin anew, not every day you get a chance. And maybe not every phase in your life either. So that I'll treasure.

Off to Uni!

I'm getting quite crazy sitting in front of the computer all day. Developed some kind of mouse arm, it aches a bit. I'll be fine, just finish this entry and I'm off to do something more physical, ie packing.

What have I accomplished online today?
1) I have enrolled into Warwick. Meaning checking my info, and promise I will start school.
2) I have payed the tuition fee!
3) I can log now into the intranat of Warwick meaning I have email account (J.Z.Shen@warwick.ac.uk) and web blog (http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/janieshen) which I will be using when my time comes in uni.
4) I have been on the Warwick forums and "talked" to people.
5) I got letter from WBS (Warwick Business School) with details. Now I can log onto their website where I can see all the modules I will be taking (stiffled yay). They look quite simple to be honest. Like for Quantive Methods of Analysis the assessment was 70% by examination, 3 hr open book and 30% by essay less than 4 pages. Now that was only one module. I will be taking 4 and French. That's five subjects to handle at the same time, but having done with more than 10 i think it will be o k a y.
6) I've been delving into all the social activities that will take part in the beginning of the year. Like the Fresher's Fesitval (incl. a Fresher's Fortnight, check out the link and all the other things like Holloween Party!). Then we have the WBS society with their own Fresher's Party and later on before the break a Business Ball!
7) Cannot decide how I'm going to make my schedule go together because I want to get a part-time job at the same time be an editor for Boar, hold a radio show for RaW, join the photographing society, maybe join my flute to the orchestra, try a little djing...

So basically I have been mind-preparing for Warwick, and that's almost as important as real preparing ie packing. I'm feeling quite excited, although all my excitment does seem a bit subdued with age. I get over it pretty fast, the little glimmers of "yay, that will be awesome!". Like when I got to know I'll be living in a corridor, I mean I would rather have prefered the house. Not excited.

P.S. Merc I do not know if contacting you through my own blog is possible, but anyway. Did you get Arthur Vick? Are you going to Orientation?

To live in one land, is captivtie.

Today I woke up feeling great. When I was on my way to the kitchen I got a kick in the head, and thoughts from a year ago came back to me. I suddenly remembered why I in first place applied for International Business in Warwick, thinking I would never get in. The course sounded perfect in my ears then, it was THE THING I wanted to do. I was in my Business daze, thinking we are ruled by corporations and everything surrounding is buy and sell. We live in a era of possessing. Of mindless materialism. Everybody is in someway connected to business, there's no way to get away. I thought, I want to understand the situation. I want to know how the world became the superfical giant machine running on profit, and maybe by I understanding it I will be able to change things. Change the world to a better place. There was also french, I was (and still is) in love with French. So it was perfect.

Somehow along the way. Writing personal statement, fixing application, waiting for reply... getting and offer, accepting, acheiving the grades, I had forgotten what made me want to do all this. When I got in to Warwick, it was like okay, so what? See, that's just the perfect example of human ungratitude to things. I want to cherish the beginning, and be overjoyed that I got what I wanted in the first place.

Now if somebody will ask me what I'm going to do this autum and the rest of my time, I will answer proudly and excitedely I'm going to study International Business with French in a country where it rains constantly and I'll be living in a small town with a big university campus. I'm on the road of becoming a international citizen, trying to make a difference to the world as little as I am. Right now I need to learn. Then when the time comes, I will walk on and I will do something about it.

"Our natur lies in movement; complete calm is death" - Pascal, Pensées

And back to materialism, I just ordered myself a new laptop! Dell Inspiron 6000, hopefully it will get here next wednesday. If it doesn't I don't know what to do!

Also got myself a webcam...


...and a portable headset. All for having connection with people thought the WEB.


Listening to: Seventeen by Keren Ann

"Look at me, I'm only seventeen

It hasn't been too long
But it's been lonely
Look at me,and smell the tangerine
Life is a mellow song
But only only"

Hanging out with Celebs.

My Celebrity week started on Sunday. Me and Julian were going to see "The Island" (which turned out to be a perfectly fine movie, still not disappointed in Ewan) and when we arrive at Rigoletto the Madagascar Gala Premiere just finished. All these famous people (A, B and C-kändisar) just filed out, with their kids or being kids themselves. So trying to get to the cashier I brushed agains Ana (ex-Excellence girl), Gladys and Blossom (the schlager trio, forgot their name), saw Lars Lejonborg, Tilde-something (the presentor) to name a few.

A few days later, on Wednesday, when me and Julian were going out from his flat to Odenplan we pass the shop for Baby stuff (called Babyland?). There I stare into the eyes of no other than this years schlager winner Martin Stenmark! Holding his baby, wearing a mössa. That was not it for the day, as when I was choosing which griffeltavla to buy for England, I see Peter Jöback (in glasses and hat) trying to choose which box he wanted to get.

It doesn't end here. Cause the coolest thing happened yesterday. Me and Emelie went to Debaser for Club Killers releaseparty. Costed 100kr and had to wait in line for an whole hour, but totally worth it! We are shit tired in our legs when we got inside and the place is PACKED. We find nowhere to sit, but pass this table with empty seats. We see glasses on table, of course no luck, but we decided to ask the girl who was sitting across if it was free. She said the people left but probably are coming back, we said but we are so tired we'll just sit for a few sec. And then I realized the girl looked eerily familiar, exactly like Maria in Sahara Hotnights. I told Emelie this but she didn't know how she looked like, so. That was that...

Until.



Yes, it was Maria! And we talked to her! The whole night went crazy, the band was SO GOOD, all the poor students seemed high although probably no one afforded to drink. Some dudes from Virginia US was high though and annoyed us very much by jumping around onto people, and trying to climb on the stage. To see more pictures just click the little flickr banner on the right. I enjoy live band that want to make people dance very much.

To conclude: The week is not over yet, so I'll keep you updated if i see anyone else. Maybe I should take out my camera next time?