Week One: Many thanks to the advanced researches for hosting a lovely introductory week of evening dinners and pleasant social occasions. Friday 7 October 2011: Noon Pre-Seminar Seminar then Seminar with Viv Golding project. Visa Renewal Workshop. Reception for Faith Trail Project at New Walk (5:30 reception for the Faith Trail followed by impromptu graduate discussion at the Landsdowne, followed by ‘The Pub’ at New Walk--fascinating discussion of contextual relationships between social and physical attributes of spatial experience in the interpretation of objects; we also ran into colleague Jenny in debate about the relationship between language and experience in terms of magical realism as juxtaposed to what is generally classified as science fiction.)
Thursday 6 October 2011: Review for tomorrow and photocopies of Faith Trail Brochure. I emailed my supervisor to make appointment for the first supervision meeting.
Wednesday 5 October 2011: Brown Bag Seminar in The Collections Room with Reiji Takayasu of Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science. After the meeting, set to organising of the Collections Room and collections closet (this was a very enjoyable experience I was happy to do).
Tuesday 4 October 2011: General Meetings for Postgraduates and Researchers at the University of Leicester. Getting used to new email accounts etc. Had a lengthy interview with Student Welfare for the renewal of my student visa (somewhat complicated and expensive in light of new laws passed during the summer). There was also an introductory session to the marking process at Museum Studies, University of Leicester.
Monday 3 October 2011: 2:15 Collections Room: Introduction to Museum Studies at Leicester.
Pre-Term Weekend: Meditation and gentle stretching exercises to calm pre-induction nerves.
*Please note that the photo used for this entry was not taken by the author. It is the official website photo for the Museum Studies Department website at the University of Leicester.
