Erasmus Year - Part 3

Erasmus Year - Part 3

So I began my law courses in Copenhagen! I didn't know what to expect and what the classes would be like. I missed my first day because I had to take one of my visitors to the Copenhagen Airport. The first class that I went to was on Tuesday and this is the day where i have a lecture clash for the whole semester. Human Rights in the EU and International Law of the Sea are both held at the same time that day so it's a good thing i brought my trusty dictaphone. I went to Law of the Sea which was a two-hour lecture and recorded Human Rights which was three hours.

In addition to these classes I had Indigenous People, the Environment and Law on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This class was an intensive course and was going to finish by the start of October (which is why i chose it). The exam was also an open book exam that i took home and wrote over a few days (which seemed a good idea at the time of choosing my modules). These classes were fine; the tutor was really nice and she always had a positive attitude that i enjoyed. The other people in this class were from all over the world but mostly from countries where there were indigenous peoples, such as Australia and Canada.

Indigenous Peoples was the best subject out of the ones i chose, at least in terms of tutor. In Law of the Sea the tutor was hard to understand sometimes and the one I had for Human Rights seemed a nice guy but was quite monotoned in his delivery of the materials.

By the end of September being just one month into my classes I had my Indigenous Peoples take home exam. We were told that the exam questions would be based on the mandatory readings. During this first month I hadn't been keeping up with the readings; preferring instead to watch DVDs and episodes of Scrubs, Fresh Prince and How I Met Your Mother so i had to squeeze all the mandatory readings (which was at least 500 pages) into less than a week before the exam.

The exam itself covered most of the course and comprised of three questions (both essay and scenario). There was no choice in which questions we did - we had to do them all. This was weird to me coming from Leicester where i've always had a choice between questions. To top off my problems with the exam, I had to endure the effects of under-cooked chicken that i made myself a night or two before the exam. However, despite these problems I wrote the essays as best i could and submitted it online 2am Thursday which was ten hours before the deadline.

There was no time to rest after this though because on Friday I was about to start my journey to Russia...