Comments on: School Days Revisited (UK) #031 http://www.hoklife.com/2012/09/12/school-days-revisited-uk-031/ Meet the HOK people behind the projects Tue, 21 May 2013 18:51:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Justin http://www.hoklife.com/2012/09/12/school-days-revisited-uk-031/comment-page-1/#comment-15496 Justin Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:02:46 +0000 http://www.hoklife.com/?p=28714#comment-15496 Hello Deb, I understand you chose to live in Halls, as you assumed you would be dealing with loud noises and drunken parties. But i find this 'school days revisited' to be somewhat discouraging and naive. Nothing about what you wrote above suggests anything remotely encouraging or appropriate for an intellectual discussion. Now maybe I should have looked at your other blog posts prior to reading this. But as you did, I too decided to suspend my career to go back to Uni, moving from the HOK Toronto Studio to Oxford... living in Halls, with other international students, who 'spent most of their time in their rooms, only associating with people of there home country' as you put it. But the difference between you and I, is that I didn't go on a public blog to criticise them after I moved out. So what if they didn't spend 6 quid to take a 40 minute train ride, or slept most of the day and worked at night. The one thing I've come across from anyone that I have met in me life, is that everyone is different. Those international students you lived with were probably proud to be there, and took more from there experience just being there, then doing the things you suggest they didn't do. Hello Deb,
I understand you chose to live in Halls, as you assumed you would be dealing with loud noises and drunken parties. But i find this ‘school days revisited’ to be somewhat discouraging and naive. Nothing about what you wrote above suggests anything remotely encouraging or appropriate for an intellectual discussion.

Now maybe I should have looked at your other blog posts prior to reading this. But as you did, I too decided to suspend my career to go back to Uni, moving from the HOK Toronto Studio to Oxford… living in Halls, with other international students, who ‘spent most of their time in their rooms, only associating with people of there home country’ as you put it. But the difference between you and I, is that I didn’t go on a public blog to criticise them after I moved out.

So what if they didn’t spend 6 quid to take a 40 minute train ride, or slept most of the day and worked at night. The one thing I’ve come across from anyone that I have met in me life, is that everyone is different.
Those international students you lived with were probably proud to be there, and took more from there experience just being there, then doing the things you suggest they didn’t do.

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