For all the Germans that read my blog,
you’re probably wondering why I am loving a subject that involves the pleasure
of other people’s torture. I'm not psychotic- I am simply referring to my
presentation that I did a couple of weeks ago, which was about schadenfreude’s
presence in reality television. Our group got a 90- that’s just TEN marks off perfection! So of course I'm going to
love the concept of schadenfreude, especially since it got me my first
90...EVER! I have to admit that pronouncing the word was hilarious. We used an online dictionary that pronounces the word to help our group out. I told my
German friend, Jasmina, about learning a German word, and when I told her it
was schadenfreude, she laughed her head off! I surely impressed with my vast
grasp of the German language! :P
Now that the presentation is over, I’m
finding myself swamped with work that...to put it nicely, isn’t enjoyable. Did
you know you can relate culture to FURNITURE? For a topic that I enjoy so much,
my course leader managed to find a way to make it boring! I am also plowing my
way through a Value Chain assignment which is 4000 words, but that’s going
better than expected. MIS (Management of Information Systems) is driving me
nuts with the amount of presentations we have to do alongside our individual
report. A group presentation a week is making me go more crazy than what I was
like in my last blog! My evidence for this is the fact that there was a PELICAN
on my roof this morning. Yes...a PELICAN.
In addition to this, Frugal February is in
full swing. I’m halfway through, but I
have been an incredibly good scrounger and not spent on anything other than
travel...and a present for my sister. But otherwise, I’m doing well! I think
I’ll have enough in time for Miami (once my mobile phone bill is paid). I found
out that you can get money in such stupid ways. For example, on my website, I
got asked if I wanted to advertise FoxyBingo.Com. Thinking it was spam, I
initially ignored it, but then I found out you could get money for it. I
decided to go for it to see what would happen, and I got $170 for subliminally
advertising an online bingo company! Don’t believe me?
Talk about a
result! That roughly translated to £105.45 for me to have for Miami. I will
give a progress report at the end of the month, and hope that I have the $1400
that I need in order to go. Wish me luck!
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