Month 1 of 12; lusy british

Well it is official this is my first month in the UK and i feel real british already.....well not really but felt nice to say that somewhat.

My first two weeks were great thanks to dale, keisha, andrew, keliesha and ingrid. I felt as if i know them for years................well except for dale who i have known all my life. From that experience i can say that good friends hard to find and sometime water thicker than blood.

As evidenced from the previous blogs my time was well spent in enfield and i felt like i was on vacation as opposed to preparing to go to school, but i am glad though i relaxed so that when i start to stress i wouldnt feel like i have been stressing from day one.

My new friends followed me to school and that was great as well. Imagine my two car entourage.

The cross cultural experience has been good; My flatmates are lovely. So far we have been out for drinks and movie and shopping. We have so much fun. It is sometimes difficult with the language barrier as they dont speak good english but i am trying to teach them (as if i have any authority to teach anyone english).

Also not having another J'can (keisha too busy wid PHD) to talk to and stuff has gotten to me several times, but i guess i am trying to embrace all cultures and it has forced me to give up ebonics for proper english. ARGHHHHHHHHHH.

School has been interesting so far. Recent interest is for a class i have to prepare submissions along with 4 other persons in which we say that proposing a law to make homosexuality (being the person) illegal is contrary to human rights. Now poor me, i was like what? worse the african guy ...zimbabwe to be exact says that he has more arguments to support the legislations than anything else. It was soo funny as out group is suppose to be against such a legislation yet we are finding alot of reasons to uphold it, while reading all these interesting cases and documents to see how they rationalise the point that discrimnation on the basis of sexual orientation violate IHRL and that it is even argued that this principle is universal and doesnt matter what ones culture is. Will keep you abreast on the final class on the issue.

The professors are the leading experts in the field and the organisation by admin has been quite good so far. Trying to keep up with checking emails everyday so that i dont miss out on the important academic things.

Now i am on the grind to try and keep up with my classes and for my first assignment due nov 21 . I am also trying to think of my research paper topic which is due dec 11. Earlier i start thinking the better. I think maybe i need to brainstorm issues i am interested in and then formulate a thesis statement around one.

anyway. back to the grind. and looking forward to many more blogs