A New Chapter

And we have arrived! Rhodes? Absolutely cool. The whole vibe here is just right. It took me a couple of days to find my grounding, but I have really settled in now. I have made some awesome new friends; Georgia, Paige, Nicky and Kelly. And Gillian who is American. All in my Res, Walker House - up on the hill. It is a long trek but I'm getting used to it. Hoping it will make the gpa fat dissolve haha.





And then of course Gregs is here, my best guy friend. I can see a long friendship lasting there. <3.

My course is great I am really excited. I have decided to do the BJourn degree, majoring in Drama and taking English Lit and Linguistics as minor subjects. Start lectures tomorrow woaaahh the reality begins. BUT if this past week has been any kind of a prediction to what the rest of the years going to entail, then I am definitely in the right place. Everyone is so friendly, and not worried about the petty things in life. Rhodes is out there waiting, and I am going to put my best foot forward these next 4 years:)

On the subject of English, the books we are reading this year are really exciting. The Crucible, Midsummer night's dream (sweeeet), Hamlet - looking forward to that one, and The Great Gatsby. Can't wait. But for interests sake I was looking through the rating of these books in realtion to others, and found the Telegraph's Top 50 films and books of all time, created in 2008, the bold ones I have seen or read. I have decided that I should make my own one with books and films I think are tops, but this is the pro one apparently. Some I have never even heard of but others are understandable. Here they are;

TOP 50 MOVIES and BOOKS of ALL TIME - The Telegraph's opinion
Films
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Jaws
4. Halloween
5. Braveheart
6. Rocky
7. Terminator 2: Judgement day
8. The Empire strikes back
9. Forrest Gump
10. The Green Mile
11. The Prestige
12. Goodfellas
13. Aliens
14. E.T The Extra –Terrestrial
15. The Wizard of Oz
16. The Dark night
17. King Kong
18. An American Werewolf in London
19. It’s a wonderful life
20. Spider-Man 2
21. The Exorcist
22. The godfather (Part II)
23. Blade Runner
24. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
25. Edward Scissorhands
26. Kelly’s Heroes
27. The Sixth Sense
28. Schindler’s List
29. Dracula (1931)
30. Leon: The Professional
31. The Rainmaker
32. Cinderella Man
33. The Lion King
34. The Wrestler
35. Se7en
36. The Lord of the Rings: The two towers
37. Spaceballs
38. Frankenstein (1931)
39. The Time Machine (1960)
40. Iron Man
41. Raging Bull
42. Platoon
43. Blow
44. Army of Darkness
45. Close encounters of the Third Kind
46. Ghostbusters
47. Monster’s Ink.
48. Pulp Fiction
49. Fight Club
50. X2: X-men United

Books
1. To kill a mocking bird – Harper Lee
2. The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3. The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe – C.S Lewis
4. Pride and Prejuduce – Jane Austin
5. The DA Vinci Code – Dan Brown
6. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
7. Animal Farm – George Orwell
8. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
9. Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban – JK Rowling
10. The Lord of the flies – William Golding
11. The Time Travellers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
12. Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
13. One flew over the cuckoo’s nest – Kan Kasey
14. Gone with the wind – Margaret Mitchell
15. The lovely bones – Alice Sebold
16. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
17. Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
18. The Curious incident of the dog in the night time – Mark Haddon
19. The Great Gatsby – F.Scott Fitzgerald
20. The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
21. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
22. Sons and Lovers – DH Lawrence
23. Anna Kareninia – Leo Tolstoy
24. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
25. Emma – Jane Austen
26. Birdsong – Sebastian Faulkes
27. The Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
28. My Sister’s Keeper – Jodi Picoult
29. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
30. A passage to India – E. M Forster
31. Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
32. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
33. Atonement – Ian McEwan
34. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
35. In Search of lost time – Marcel Proust
36. Middlemarch – George Elliot
37. White Teeth – Zadie Smith
38. To the lighthouse – Virginia Wolf
39. It – Stephen King
40. Little Woman – Louisa M. Alcott
41. Vanity Fair – William Thackeray
42. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
43. The Horse Whisperer – Nicholas Evans
44. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
45. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
46. Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
47. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
48. Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twin
49. Three Men in a boat – Jerome K. Jerome
50. The Island – Victoria Hislop

Perhaps I should give getting this list done a go. But for now, over and out. Until I get time in between lectures, learning, partying and breathing to blog about life in Grahamstown :)