Returning to ECS<\/p>\n
Having been back in the UK now for nearly two months, I am well settled into the lifestyle. This year I live in a bit of a multi-lingual household with a Spaniard, a Frenchman, and a German in addition to a couple of English freshers. It has been good fun getting to know everyone’s quirks and we hardly ever fight over the shower in the mornings thanks to a rather scattered pattern of morning alarm clocks (I’m usually up first). The house language is by now a sort of odd mixture of Spanglish with the occasional silly German phrase thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n
It feels great to be back at university after spending more than a year in another country. I really missed the fruit and vegetable market that comes to the union every Monday and my favourite bakery just five minutes from campus down Burgess Road. After a year with foreign bread and without root veg. I’ve been spoiling myself a bit in the kitchen, making all kinds of things with potatoes, squashes, pumpkin, and so on. I do love cooking!<\/p>\n
There is already a lot to do at university. I have a couple of websites to build, one demonstrating security, the other showing a model of a common business role. I have a team, with which I have to build “something” out of a collection of different odd bits of technology and try and get everything working together. And then of course there’s the individual project, which is going to be a experiment in multimedia organisation and discovery through searching and filtering of content taken from the social web. Loads of room for fun there!<\/p>\n
It looks like I’ll have my work cut out going forward but I thrive on an interesting challenge, as my job in Spain proved, so I’m sure this will be a great year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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