Hope has the autumn been? Busy is what it's been:
On my part-time postgraduate course I have felt under pressure on several occasions, mainly around a finance exam and two coursework deadlines. I'm not sure I've found the sweet spot in my studies. After the long Tuesday I'm quite tired on the Wednesday and I never quite seem to shake it off before the end of another week. Redeeming the evenings after a day at work seems hard too with the work day finishing an hour later than it would in Kenya - I blink and miss it.
I've learnt some things about myself in the course such as that I understand more of what I am reading when I don't take notes. I could almost say that I enjoyed the reading because I could see myself internalising and processing what I had read. There is a need to write some things down as my memory cannot hold it well for very long and so I need to work on this a bit. Now that we're into the eighth week of the course the reading been pushed to the back burner while the coursework comes to the fore. I'm not enjoyed the coursework as much as I would have liked - perhaps because our field of work is so complex and obscure to the academic world of human resource management.
On the positive side of life we have managed to be hospitable with several friends and relatives popping in for cups of tea or staying over while passing by. This past weekend we went to London on Friday for the tennis ATP Tour Finals. We watched a good doubles match before witnessing Djokovic beat Berdych. BBC Sport wrote of the win that "When he [Djokovic] broke again in game three of the second there seemed little prospect of the muted afternoon crowd coming to life." That was us.
