Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2008

What I did this summer


So, as some people reading my blog got the completly wrong idea, of me doing nothing except travelling, enjoying festivals and partys, I decided to show you now, what I really did most of the time during all this summer. It started in the end of May and went on like this until end of September!
So, most of the time I was writing papers for my Bachelor degree at University. I had to write one paper about russian literature, concretly I had to analyse how Michael Bakunin described the russian terrorist Nechaev in his letters. I had to write an other paper about Russian Philosophy. I had to compare the views on russian and european culture of the two important russian philosophers Chadaev and Kireevski in the end of 18th, beginning of the 19th century. I also had to write 15 pages in spanish, about the way, colombian culture was represented in Gabriel Garcia Marquez book "100 years of solitude". I had to write a paper in Ancient History as well, about the reign of Antiochos III of Sardes. And I finally had to write my bachelor thesis in History as well. I did researches about Soviet delegations, visiting Switzerland during the period of nonexistance of official political relationship between the two countries.
That means, I had a total of 5 papers to wirte, 4 of about 15 to 20 pages and one more important of abotu 30 to 40 pages. It also means that I spent most of my summer in libraries or in my room, behind a computer writing all this papers. For my bachelor thesis I also had to visit the National archives in Bern, looking for information about this delegations. I then had to take a picture of all the documents I found and have a closer lookt at them at home. So, alltough, reading my blog, maybe it doesn't seam like this to you, believe me, I had a lot of hard and crappy work to do this summer. I was studying a looooot. And I took more pictures of archiv-documents than I took of all my free weekends and small trips.
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