Monday sees me with a shiny, new list of goals I have set myself for this week. Once again, assignments and completion of modules are my main focus, plus the remainder of the A to Z Challenge.

I hereby give fair warning: I need to study this weekend. No outside distractions. Friday is a national holiday here in Germany (Labour Day) and I’m off work, so I really want to dedicate the time to my degree and try and get ahead a little in my reading and writing.

I’m starting a new course today for my M.A. Cross-Cultural Communication. It’s called MA500 Persuasion and consists of 7 modules and 16 assignments in total (mainly forum contributions of varying lengths), so the amount of work I need to hand in per week will increase.

Among the things I hope to achieve this week are the following:

• Submit CCC502 Assignment #6
• Submit MA500 Assignment #1
• Submit MA500 Assignment #2
• Prepare college binder for MA500 Persuasion
• Complete Modern Middle East II module #3
• Complete Community Journalism module #4
• Complete Modern Business module #3
• Complete Understanding Language module #2
• Complete Writing Fiction module #1
• A to Z blog post for W on Monday
• A to Z blog post for X on Tuesday
• A to Z blog post for Y on Wednesday
• ROW80 Update on Wednesday
• Teach English extra tuition on Wednesday
• A to Z blog post for Z on Thursday
• Weekend Coffee Share on Saturday
• ROW80 Check-in on Sunday

Wish me luck. As usual, I will provide an update in my Sunday ROW80 Update to show how I got on.