{"id":438,"date":"2016-08-15T08:46:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T08:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/studyabroad\/?p=438"},"modified":"2016-10-17T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:31:00","slug":"lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/studyabroad\/2016\/08\/15\/lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sometimes life gives you lemon and sometimes it gives you a wrinkled brown thing; it just seems purely useless. Unfortunately,this is a part of life, so sometimes it is difficult. This post is dedicated to those times when it\u2019s just not working out . It\u2019s perfectly normal if you\u2019re unhappy at one point even when everyone else is happy.<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019ve read the previous posts, you might think this summer programme has been amazing. Well,\u00a0I too have\u00a0my cloudy days. During our stay here, especially in the first three weeks or so, we had a colossal amount of work. Do you think I\u2019m exaggerating? Let\u2019s do the Maths: Reading reflections were\u00a0due every midnight after a class day, which was three days a week; three site visits or guest lecture reviews per week; weekly journal for two different modules each week; and each work is around 500-600 words each. All that adds up to around 4200 words a week. Not to mention, we have our placements and the three classes per week last for 3.5 hours each. At this point, the trips designed to de-stress had become more work rather than relaxation.<\/p>\n

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\"Lemon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

All of that workload really took a toll on all of us. However, this creates a sense of mutuality between us; we got through it together, in the end we bonded through our mutual view toward the\u00a0 amount of work.\u00a0 Lacking sleep and free time, we naturally made time for self-recovery or calling family members (when the WiFi wass working) rather than socialising during the short breaks we have.<\/p>\n
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During my stay here, there was a day when all I wanted to do was go home. This is the thing about these kind of days: you might have finished all your work already (I did), it might have been an easy day (it was), but you\u2019re homesick. At that time, I couldn\u2019t call home because it was 5pm here, which means it\u2019s midnight\u00a0back at home in Indonesia. Other people seem fine and I couldn\u2019t relate with their smiley demeanour. On days like this, I made sure I was\u00a0 well-fed (not eating will make you more grumpy!) and call it a day early. I\u2019m the type of person who feels better listening to a mellow song, so I played one and go to bed. It happens, but like the WiFi breakdowns at our hotel, it doesn\u2019t last forever!<\/p>\n

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Finally, don\u2019t think badly of yourself when this happens. Some people need to rant when this happens, some people call home, some people have their own karaoke session, some go to sleep, but for all cases the good lemonade will finally out spill the bad lemonade in good time.<\/p>\n

(Thanks to my friends for giving me some space instead of being nosy at that time and especially Maria for being my hand model for\u00a0this post)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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