Geordieland

Right, so I'm now back in Newcastle. You can tell that I'm bad with diaries looking at the last entry which was several months ago.

Copenhagen turned out to be fabulous once you got to know more people. Though I still am not a fan of the city itself. But Erasmus was every bit as amazing as I expected it to be. Though it did manage to almost bankrupt me.

I was happy to return to Newcastle though, familiar territory with seemingly no difficulties. Rather the opposite. Granted, I'd been fighting with Virgin Media about the deposit they hadn't returned to me despite several attempts for over 9 months and still no end was at sight, but then NPower added to the delight coming up with a bill for over £225 pounds completely out of the blue. Then my current flat's agency tried to charge for 2 months rent twice (as if having to pay 2months in advance isn't enough) and then the Finnish educational authority (KELA) decided to be difficult not pay me all the money that was due in my grants. So yea, first two weeks sucked.

But now I'm happy again. I've got the most amazing module, EU simulation which is just fabulous. I get to be Bulgaria and kick some Western European ass. Then I applied for 2 jobs to which I sent my CV and got 2 interviews. The second one is actually in an hour so we'll see what comes of it. I need to get a job to pay for all the extravagant travelling I've got planned, firstly and foremost meaning Florida. But seems like there's at least potential in my CV.

I'm also trying to make sense of my dissertation and hope to get an inspiration soon, my self-imposed deadline for the 1st draft is on the 15th and I aim to stick to it. By the time it's my birthdya I hope to have a near finished product in my hands.

I've also got some brilliant conferences/simulations to attend to this year. Later on in February I'm heading to Cambridge as the Bulgarian Prime Minister with my lovely delegation consisting of my beloved Copenhagen family and Suvi, a friend of mine who courageously "volunteered" to help us out as we were one member short. Then in April we're off to Maastricht for a model UN session with a bigger crew which will have an amazing mix of people I know from Finland, Newcastle and Copenhagen.

I'm getting a bit nervous of the interview so I'm off to practise stuff like: "what makes me good in customer service". Crap.