jeez luise!
by Ladurée - Paris
02 November, 2009
OMG!!! 3years.. going to year Four!!!!
I was just looking back at old posts and pictures I made from Vienna (which are not that many!!!)
Vienna during Storms
and other images
and I found this short blog entry that shows my attempt at preserving the feeling I had in the first morning in vienna in my second year here!
Oh.. I'm getting all nostalgic now!
well not really, because now I am doing better!
But I remember the excitement! I remember that everything was new again!
I left friends and well known faces behind and moved to another part of town
to live with other people in my current student residency
OH MY... it dates 2007! this is my second year here in this residency now
And I don't have any pictures from parties... Like I had from my other student residency!
it also means it's my third year in Vienna!
I should take more pictures
I MUST
because in a few years I will love to look back at them...
and feel nostalgic and remember the nice things
and the bad things too
=)
TO DO LIST:
MORE PICTURES ON MY BLOG!!!!!
this picture is of a Turkish Restaurant I went to with my boyfriend and my mother (she came to visit me in April 2009! Man it's a while back!)
new gadgets new features & shopping list
I had a prolonged weekend this week but I still did not find the time to write the posts I had in mind (about the protests in Vienna and posting more pictures I took while my best friend was here)
neither did I find the time to write the essays and homework that I have too as well.
My friends and I organized a Secret Santa this year so it will be a lot of fun =)
I have many ideas but so little means!!!
Hopefully this will be a tradition from now on!
Blog news!
my blog seems to be back in action! YEY!
I found a few new gadgets and added them
so now following my blog is just one click away!!!
Mia's crafty news!
I haven't been dedicating enough time to crafting and creating
(no photography, no nothing)
and I sure hope that I will, because I feel like as if the talent is slipping away from my fingers!
the last thing I did was painting a cherry tree for my room
but it doesn't look that good (only had one color), still I will upload a picture
I have lots of ideas though for stuff I want to do!
on the shopping list:
- polaroid film (expensiiiiiive)
- fimo (polymer clay)
- wire
- varnish
- pillow's stuffing material (I want to make pillows)
- fabric for even more pillows!
well that's it for now... I have my spaguetti bolognese waiting for me!
neither did I find the time to write the essays and homework that I have too as well.
My friends and I organized a Secret Santa this year so it will be a lot of fun =)
I have many ideas but so little means!!!
Hopefully this will be a tradition from now on!
Blog news!
my blog seems to be back in action! YEY!
I found a few new gadgets and added them
so now following my blog is just one click away!!!
Mia's crafty news!
I haven't been dedicating enough time to crafting and creating
(no photography, no nothing)
and I sure hope that I will, because I feel like as if the talent is slipping away from my fingers!
the last thing I did was painting a cherry tree for my room
but it doesn't look that good (only had one color), still I will upload a picture
I have lots of ideas though for stuff I want to do!
on the shopping list:
- polaroid film (expensiiiiiive)
- fimo (polymer clay)
- wire
- varnish
- pillow's stuffing material (I want to make pillows)
- fabric for even more pillows!
well that's it for now... I have my spaguetti bolognese waiting for me!
30 October, 2009
University of Vienna student protests ocurring since 20th of October 2009 THE DEMANDS:
these are the demands taken from the official website unibrennt.at
news:
A speaker of the student group corrected the word "demand" and wishes now people to call this set of suggestions "proposals"
Proposals
1) Academic formation rather than simple job training
We support education as a means to form a responsible society instead of a mere preparation for joining the economic workforce. It is our goal to facilitate free and self-determined studying for everyone. We oppose a tight regimentation of study curricula. Therefore, we call for a fundamental revision of the BA/MA system.
We call for:
* a halt to compulsory introductory classes at the beginning of every Bachelor’s studies, often including knock-out exams preventing the further pursuit of your studies, called ‘STEPs’, as disguised entry restrictions. The STEP should provide an actual period of orientation rather than a means of selection through knock-out exams
* individual planning of studies – an end to unnecessary delays caused by chains of prerequisite courses
* free electives instead of inflexible electives packages consisting of a set of predefined courses (so-called ‘Erweiterungscurricula’)
* a stop to untransparent enrolling systems
* free entry to Master and PhD programmes
* guaranteed completion of studies following the commenced curriculum after the latter’s discontinuation (e.g. diploma studies). This requires the university’s offering of certain classes and fixed credit equivalency lists as well as established transitional periods.
* maintaining the existing diploma degree courses
* guaranteed credit transfer from courses and degrees obtained at national and international schools and universities
2) Free entry to university-level education
We call for free university places and for the abolition of tuition fees for everyone, including non-EU citizens and students who do not or cannot finish their studies as currently officially scheduled. Adequate course offerings and quality of teaching must not be obtained via admission restrictions. Free access to university education and quality teaching don’t contradict each other! There are never too many students, only too few university places!
3) Democratisation of the universities
Our declared goal is the democratic organisation of universities in which faculties, students and other academic as well as non-academic personnel are equally integrated in decision-making.
We call for:
* a redistribution of voting rights in the university senate in order to facilitate a democratic governing body
* changes in study curricula to be made only in consultation with the students affected
* the introduction of democratic structures at all levels
* transparent decision-finding procedures at all levels
* an attitude of anti-discrimination as a fundamental consensus at all levels
* the abolition of the University Board
* the abolition of the current top-down hierarchy
* the revocation of the ÖH (Austrian National Union of Students) Electoral Law Reform of 2004 – reintroduction of direct election
* the facilitation and sustainment of autonomous spaces for students
4) Full funding of the universities
* transparency in the funding of research and teaching
* participation in the application of funds at universities
* abolition of tuition fees for all students, including non-Austrian citizens and students who do not or cannot finish their studies as currently officially scheduled
* financial security for students
* reintroduction of free public transport fares for students
* abolition of all financial barriers to higher education
5) The Disability Equality Act must be effectuated at all universities in order to allow for a barrier-free studying
6) The precarious working conditions for university personnel must be put to a stop
7) We call for a 50 % proportion of female staff at all levels and universities
What happened until now
and how did it all began?
read the story in German here
news:
A speaker of the student group corrected the word "demand" and wishes now people to call this set of suggestions "proposals"
Proposals
1) Academic formation rather than simple job training
We support education as a means to form a responsible society instead of a mere preparation for joining the economic workforce. It is our goal to facilitate free and self-determined studying for everyone. We oppose a tight regimentation of study curricula. Therefore, we call for a fundamental revision of the BA/MA system.
We call for:
* a halt to compulsory introductory classes at the beginning of every Bachelor’s studies, often including knock-out exams preventing the further pursuit of your studies, called ‘STEPs’, as disguised entry restrictions. The STEP should provide an actual period of orientation rather than a means of selection through knock-out exams
* individual planning of studies – an end to unnecessary delays caused by chains of prerequisite courses
* free electives instead of inflexible electives packages consisting of a set of predefined courses (so-called ‘Erweiterungscurricula’)
* a stop to untransparent enrolling systems
* free entry to Master and PhD programmes
* guaranteed completion of studies following the commenced curriculum after the latter’s discontinuation (e.g. diploma studies). This requires the university’s offering of certain classes and fixed credit equivalency lists as well as established transitional periods.
* maintaining the existing diploma degree courses
* guaranteed credit transfer from courses and degrees obtained at national and international schools and universities
2) Free entry to university-level education
We call for free university places and for the abolition of tuition fees for everyone, including non-EU citizens and students who do not or cannot finish their studies as currently officially scheduled. Adequate course offerings and quality of teaching must not be obtained via admission restrictions. Free access to university education and quality teaching don’t contradict each other! There are never too many students, only too few university places!
3) Democratisation of the universities
Our declared goal is the democratic organisation of universities in which faculties, students and other academic as well as non-academic personnel are equally integrated in decision-making.
We call for:
* a redistribution of voting rights in the university senate in order to facilitate a democratic governing body
* changes in study curricula to be made only in consultation with the students affected
* the introduction of democratic structures at all levels
* transparent decision-finding procedures at all levels
* an attitude of anti-discrimination as a fundamental consensus at all levels
* the abolition of the University Board
* the abolition of the current top-down hierarchy
* the revocation of the ÖH (Austrian National Union of Students) Electoral Law Reform of 2004 – reintroduction of direct election
* the facilitation and sustainment of autonomous spaces for students
4) Full funding of the universities
* transparency in the funding of research and teaching
* participation in the application of funds at universities
* abolition of tuition fees for all students, including non-Austrian citizens and students who do not or cannot finish their studies as currently officially scheduled
* financial security for students
* reintroduction of free public transport fares for students
* abolition of all financial barriers to higher education
5) The Disability Equality Act must be effectuated at all universities in order to allow for a barrier-free studying
6) The precarious working conditions for university personnel must be put to a stop
7) We call for a 50 % proportion of female staff at all levels and universities
What happened until now
and how did it all began?
read the story in German here
three little piggies: a halloween tale =)
I don't recall this story having such a funny and cruel ending
I guess it must be a halloween edition!!!
I guess it must be a halloween edition!!!
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