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This is a nice city even if it keeps architectural traces of its industrial past. The city centre mixes modern and older buildings. Walking in the streets, looking up at these various stones, you can almost be able to read the history of the city. 

Manchester is bigger than Sheffield and very cosmopolitan. For example, it's possible to visit the “China Town Manchester”. I found it amazing!

Apart from that, the time has come for work hard. As a matter of fact a lot of essays and assignments are waiting for me. Actually the main difficulty for me is to consider a different way of writing. In French, a Law essay always follows the same method: an introduction and a plan into two parts, and especially  no conclusion because everything must be said in the body of the essay. 

So I have to do my best for dealing with that. In fact, I don't really know which form my essays have to adopt. I guess I just have to follow the sense of the question. One of my topics is about the enforcement powers of the Environmental Agency and the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanction Act 2008. I have to weigh up the pros and the cons of the enforcement powers, and then discuss how useful the Act of 2008 is.

After the deadlines of the essays, I'm going to go back to France for ten days for the Christmas vacation. Instead of holidays I'm pretty sure it's going to be a revision time. At least, I'll be with my family and friends. Moreover, I'll enjoy the weather of the south of France and see the sun later than at 4 in the afternoon!

...Some time spent at home for Christmas, I needed it: a break just with my family and friends. Obviously, staying there for such a little time, it was hard to think about working. But after all it was a break, resting after the “ESSAYS PERIOD”!

Fortunately all my work was done in time. At the same time, I realized how strict is the procedural system here. When you've finished your work you have to send a double copy to the University website, and then print a receipt before giving the paper version to the Undergraduate Office. Moreover you have to write your essay in a special template imposed by the University. I ignored this detail, but this kind of negligence costs ten points less in the final mark.

Fortunately, I finally managed to resolve this problem fifteen minutes before the deadline...quite stressful! Then you have to be very careful with the question of plagiarism, and if you know you're not stupid enough for copying a text you found on the internet, you're always worried about the possibility of a “ignored plagiarism”. I mean there are a lot of juridical classic sentences or expressions appearing in lots of books...

Well, now I'm back in Sheffield and as I am alone, I don't have any other alternative than preparing the next exams. That the reason why I decided to come back so early, no other distraction than law and statutes. The next times look studious.