For all those that still look at this blog, I thank you & I apologise for being so negligent.
I don't think I'm going to continue posting here, but will keep the blog open for personal reminiscing about what I got up to over the last three years.
Isatou, xx
Thursday, 15 September 2011
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Good Morning, June.
Hello all.
Apologies for not updating for so long. Once again, life has gotten in the way so badly this time that even when I do have a few hours to kill, I don't have the mental ability to sit here and type.
In the months that have passed I have a few things of mention:
1. I have been to Italy with 4 friends from uni on our Study Tour. In this we went around some of the best and most exquisite museums in the world, researching our proposed topics (mine was the connection between personal religion and jewellery + cosmetics in ancient Egypt). Going to Italy was amazing, and I'll do a separate post on it shortly.
2. I got my first FIRST on my 4,000 word essay! Majorly happy. It was on the ancient Egyptian funerary ritual of Opening the Mouth, and it took me absolutely forever because I wanted to try my best to include all the points I had been so harshly critiqued on (having got a measly 2:2 for another essay earlier in the year).
3. I have revised hard and sat my exams for the year. They didn't go too badly.
The first one I initially thought I could do really well in (There are 10 questions, from which we pick 3 to answer in 3 hours), and after steaming through the first one, quite a good argument about the influences of Tuthmose 1,2 & 3 in the life of Hatshepsut, and started writing the plan for the second one - I realised I knew literally bits and bobs about the other 5 questions I thought I could answer. NOT good. Luckily, one I hadn't originally considered doing turned out to be a life-saver as when I started to write down notes for it, I realised I actually knew far more about it than I initially didn't give myself credit for. - To be fair, I answered that one quite vaguely. No dates or anything specific - I just answered the question to the best of my knowledge. The last one was something I hadn't even revised but knew about due to a bit of research I had done when I was considering this as a possible dissertation topic. Luckily I again thought I had written quite a convincing argument, bringing in all factors I could possibly think of. Overall, I was quite happy with that one.
My second exam was my hieroglyph exam where we saw two texts that we had already seen and revised. All we had to do was write down the transcription (the text in Egyptian) and the translation (in English). I did this absolutely brilliantly. I knew the texts inside out and wrote them down, to the best of my knowledge, word perfectly. We were also asked about 6 elements of grammar- this I definitely did very poorly at. I hopefully got two of the six elements right, but god knows. Hopefully this won't affect my overall mark too badly!
My final exam was one I was in tears about the night before. I felt like I knew NOTHING. Although yet again, when I got in the exam, I opened the paper and THANK GOD, I could answer the three I needed to. PHEW! Hopefully that one went well and I didn't waffle too much or go off subject.
I'm really aiming for a 2:1 average for this year, if not a 1:1 - but I know that because of my crappy 2:2 essay at the start of the year, and obviously not really knowing how well my exams have gone, it's unlikely. Fingers crossed!!
In other random news, I have named a horse! My friend's horse gave birth a couple of weeks ago, and I suggested the name Blossom (the mum's called Honey - Honeyblossom, get it?) which she loved, and consequently named the little foal Blossom! Quite proud of myself to be honest! She had asked for advice right from the off, knowing that I know an unbelievable and quite frankly, lame, amount of names.
Speaking of names.. my love for Olive is ever-ripe. And along with her old ass we also still have love for Arthur, Sacha & Rupert John. Apart from Olive (& Hero), girl names are completely redundant; which is useful considering I don't plan on having children for at least 6-7 years (jesus, it's getting closer - I need to find me a man!).
Deary me, is this my future with Olive, Arthur, Hero & Rupert?
Apologies for not updating for so long. Once again, life has gotten in the way so badly this time that even when I do have a few hours to kill, I don't have the mental ability to sit here and type.
In the months that have passed I have a few things of mention:
1. I have been to Italy with 4 friends from uni on our Study Tour. In this we went around some of the best and most exquisite museums in the world, researching our proposed topics (mine was the connection between personal religion and jewellery + cosmetics in ancient Egypt). Going to Italy was amazing, and I'll do a separate post on it shortly.
2. I got my first FIRST on my 4,000 word essay! Majorly happy. It was on the ancient Egyptian funerary ritual of Opening the Mouth, and it took me absolutely forever because I wanted to try my best to include all the points I had been so harshly critiqued on (having got a measly 2:2 for another essay earlier in the year).
3. I have revised hard and sat my exams for the year. They didn't go too badly.
The first one I initially thought I could do really well in (There are 10 questions, from which we pick 3 to answer in 3 hours), and after steaming through the first one, quite a good argument about the influences of Tuthmose 1,2 & 3 in the life of Hatshepsut, and started writing the plan for the second one - I realised I knew literally bits and bobs about the other 5 questions I thought I could answer. NOT good. Luckily, one I hadn't originally considered doing turned out to be a life-saver as when I started to write down notes for it, I realised I actually knew far more about it than I initially didn't give myself credit for. - To be fair, I answered that one quite vaguely. No dates or anything specific - I just answered the question to the best of my knowledge. The last one was something I hadn't even revised but knew about due to a bit of research I had done when I was considering this as a possible dissertation topic. Luckily I again thought I had written quite a convincing argument, bringing in all factors I could possibly think of. Overall, I was quite happy with that one.
My second exam was my hieroglyph exam where we saw two texts that we had already seen and revised. All we had to do was write down the transcription (the text in Egyptian) and the translation (in English). I did this absolutely brilliantly. I knew the texts inside out and wrote them down, to the best of my knowledge, word perfectly. We were also asked about 6 elements of grammar- this I definitely did very poorly at. I hopefully got two of the six elements right, but god knows. Hopefully this won't affect my overall mark too badly!
My final exam was one I was in tears about the night before. I felt like I knew NOTHING. Although yet again, when I got in the exam, I opened the paper and THANK GOD, I could answer the three I needed to. PHEW! Hopefully that one went well and I didn't waffle too much or go off subject.
I'm really aiming for a 2:1 average for this year, if not a 1:1 - but I know that because of my crappy 2:2 essay at the start of the year, and obviously not really knowing how well my exams have gone, it's unlikely. Fingers crossed!!
In other random news, I have named a horse! My friend's horse gave birth a couple of weeks ago, and I suggested the name Blossom (the mum's called Honey - Honeyblossom, get it?) which she loved, and consequently named the little foal Blossom! Quite proud of myself to be honest! She had asked for advice right from the off, knowing that I know an unbelievable and quite frankly, lame, amount of names.
Speaking of names.. my love for Olive is ever-ripe. And along with her old ass we also still have love for Arthur, Sacha & Rupert John. Apart from Olive (& Hero), girl names are completely redundant; which is useful considering I don't plan on having children for at least 6-7 years (jesus, it's getting closer - I need to find me a man!).
Deary me, is this my future with Olive, Arthur, Hero & Rupert?
Thursday, 17 February 2011
I AM MAKING ART .
I like painting now.
Oh, oh yeah. I like painting - it's a new hobby. I tear pages of interiors out of magazines and then draw and paint them in newly organised interiors.
I bought a cheap set of watercolour paints and some paint brushes and a sketch pad. I'm well professhh.
I also bought a MAHUUSIVE interior design photographic book from the Works - cost me £2.99. Looked it up on Amazon - it costs £22 ! Quite a find. Went back in a few days ago and there weren't any left - not surprised! (Well actually, I am surprised because I found it in a really obscure place, behind some other books at the back of the shop).
SO yeah, I've kind of come up with an incredibly random back-up life plan; Interior Design. I've looked online how to get into it - and a lot of places are saying you need qualifications in it, but I attempt to go against the odds and hopefully just get some experience. I've emailed a dozen local Interior Design places, and only two have come back to me - saying they don't really do work experiences. PIGS BUMS.
Will continue on in the hopes of becoming (if all else fails) Britain's Next Top Interior Designer!
Oh, oh yeah. I like painting - it's a new hobby. I tear pages of interiors out of magazines and then draw and paint them in newly organised interiors.
I bought a cheap set of watercolour paints and some paint brushes and a sketch pad. I'm well professhh.
I also bought a MAHUUSIVE interior design photographic book from the Works - cost me £2.99. Looked it up on Amazon - it costs £22 ! Quite a find. Went back in a few days ago and there weren't any left - not surprised! (Well actually, I am surprised because I found it in a really obscure place, behind some other books at the back of the shop).
SO yeah, I've kind of come up with an incredibly random back-up life plan; Interior Design. I've looked online how to get into it - and a lot of places are saying you need qualifications in it, but I attempt to go against the odds and hopefully just get some experience. I've emailed a dozen local Interior Design places, and only two have come back to me - saying they don't really do work experiences. PIGS BUMS.
Will continue on in the hopes of becoming (if all else fails) Britain's Next Top Interior Designer!
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