While installing my little gingerbread friend in front of his little gingerbread fence, I wanted to ask him “How much gingerbread taxes do you pay? How many gingerbread holidays do you take a year? Does your gingerbread boss actually pay you a decent amount to do your gingerbread job? Does the gingerbread government foot the bill for your gingerbread education and your gingerbread healthcare?”
Unfortunately, I bit off his head before I could ask those questions.
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I met up with a friend of mine on the last evening I was there, just before heading off to the airport. I first met the guy some 5 years ago, and he was just some dude, my best mate’s cousin, travelling around the world with his fiancé. Great fella though, we ended up drinking Beijing dry. He went back to Ireland and was about to live happily ever after, up until his wedding was called off right on the day. He moved to Dubai after that.
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The official pre-reading period of the first term will start on the 8th of August and end on the 14th when most of us, hopefully, leave to attend the residency in London. In 7 short days we are expected to complete all of the reading materials assigned to us by our professors for the term. [...]
