So I went out on my own to take some more pictures for our project and I came across that "Duck Tours" car that I had always wanted to take a pic of. I've never taken a tour on it, but I have been at 'The Wetland Centre' (I think the Ducktours car takes you right there) which is a very tranquil and nice place, a biotope in the middle of a loud and bustling city.
I walked along the Thames as a great deal of sights are along the river and you can walk along the river for miles quite nicely, like all the way from the Houses of Parliament to Tower Bridge, but my feet surely hurt.
I finally got a call from my agency today, saying they have found work in a call centre/market research for me. It is about time as I've been without a job since mid January and in London you can't afford that! It was rather convenient at times, as I felt really weak, tired, nauseous and had turned into a little insomniac, sleeping part of the day, awake at night. I guess it was/is all due to the change in hormones. The job starts on Thursday so wish me luck. :)
Also I am more and more looking forward to my holiday in Berlin, but dread being separated from my little Bär for too long. I always miss him when I'm in Berlin. I think 2 weeks is quite long, but I kind of "owe" it to my family as I might not see them for long after. That is if we don't decide to go to Berlin, but we've still got some time to make that final decision. But not much, because in the week of my departure the 2. Trimester begins and from now on my belly is gonna grow real quick, making moving and travelling more akward.
I'm soaking up this book like a sponge at the moment. It's called 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë. It's a bit of a chick flick in book-shape I have to admit, but maybe not as 'bad' as Jane Austen's books, they never enticed me the way this one does (I started reading 'Pride and Prejudice' but gave up soon as it didn't grip). (Hey reader, if you like you can post a list of your favourite books here, would be interesting!) I really love the way Charlotte Brontë engages with the reader and decribes feelings, emotions and surroundings so vividly, with words that are really absurd and you've never heard of (I don't know how it is different for a native speaker, but Ryon is puzzled by many of the words, too), but somehow they all make sense in context. Even though the book was published in 1847 I still find it's way of writing modern somehow and not 'posh English with a stick up your ...' . I wonder why she had written it under the pseudonym of Currer Bell. Is it because the views she expresses on the emancipation of women? E.g. p.146 "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." Well, y'all know what Ryon had to say to that, but who cares. ;)
I better draw the line here _____________ :) and let you go. Wake up! Byes ~
I walked along the Thames as a great deal of sights are along the river and you can walk along the river for miles quite nicely, like all the way from the Houses of Parliament to Tower Bridge, but my feet surely hurt.
I finally got a call from my agency today, saying they have found work in a call centre/market research for me. It is about time as I've been without a job since mid January and in London you can't afford that! It was rather convenient at times, as I felt really weak, tired, nauseous and had turned into a little insomniac, sleeping part of the day, awake at night. I guess it was/is all due to the change in hormones. The job starts on Thursday so wish me luck. :)
Also I am more and more looking forward to my holiday in Berlin, but dread being separated from my little Bär for too long. I always miss him when I'm in Berlin. I think 2 weeks is quite long, but I kind of "owe" it to my family as I might not see them for long after. That is if we don't decide to go to Berlin, but we've still got some time to make that final decision. But not much, because in the week of my departure the 2. Trimester begins and from now on my belly is gonna grow real quick, making moving and travelling more akward.
I'm soaking up this book like a sponge at the moment. It's called 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë. It's a bit of a chick flick in book-shape I have to admit, but maybe not as 'bad' as Jane Austen's books, they never enticed me the way this one does (I started reading 'Pride and Prejudice' but gave up soon as it didn't grip). (Hey reader, if you like you can post a list of your favourite books here, would be interesting!) I really love the way Charlotte Brontë engages with the reader and decribes feelings, emotions and surroundings so vividly, with words that are really absurd and you've never heard of (I don't know how it is different for a native speaker, but Ryon is puzzled by many of the words, too), but somehow they all make sense in context. Even though the book was published in 1847 I still find it's way of writing modern somehow and not 'posh English with a stick up your ...' . I wonder why she had written it under the pseudonym of Currer Bell. Is it because the views she expresses on the emancipation of women? E.g. p.146 "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." Well, y'all know what Ryon had to say to that, but who cares. ;)
I better draw the line here _____________ :) and let you go. Wake up! Byes ~
