This week I have been trying to get my assignment done. There have been some testing times resulting in me wanting to throw my computer across the library...but I didn't.
My first issue was that I had not yet purchased Word. Seen as my assignment templates were in Word, and my finished assignment needed to be submitted as such, I was willing to bite the bullet and fork out. Oh but how I tried. Apparently Microsoft have made it impossible to purchase from their store when you are in another country. Every time I got to my cart on the NZ site I was redirected to the Belgium store and faced with an error. That I can understand that as my IP address places me here... But I couldn't even purchase the english version from the Belgium store because all of my details placed me in New Zealand!... Solution: download the 30 day Microsoft Office trial off the NZ site cost = $0. Success!
Now the assignment...don't you hate it when you know your lecturers are fishing for something specific but have absolutely no idea what that is? Well this is me and in the nature of correspondence learning I headed to the forum for some help. Turns out everyone else on the forum has no idea what they are doing either...awesome. What to do...get a pep talk from that other guy that lives in your apartment thats what! Word count is starting to climb nicely.
On a more exciting note apparently the ice skating rink in Oostende opened today. May need to go have a little look see...photo's to come.
My first issue was that I had not yet purchased Word. Seen as my assignment templates were in Word, and my finished assignment needed to be submitted as such, I was willing to bite the bullet and fork out. Oh but how I tried. Apparently Microsoft have made it impossible to purchase from their store when you are in another country. Every time I got to my cart on the NZ site I was redirected to the Belgium store and faced with an error. That I can understand that as my IP address places me here... But I couldn't even purchase the english version from the Belgium store because all of my details placed me in New Zealand!... Solution: download the 30 day Microsoft Office trial off the NZ site cost = $0. Success!
Now the assignment...don't you hate it when you know your lecturers are fishing for something specific but have absolutely no idea what that is? Well this is me and in the nature of correspondence learning I headed to the forum for some help. Turns out everyone else on the forum has no idea what they are doing either...awesome. What to do...get a pep talk from that other guy that lives in your apartment thats what! Word count is starting to climb nicely.
On a more exciting note apparently the ice skating rink in Oostende opened today. May need to go have a little look see...photo's to come.
