Classes

So this term I am taking Sociology, Russian, Women in Media, History of the Soviet Union and Environmental Concepts.

The teacher for the Women's studies class is kinda scary and spent the first lecture warning us about all the things we shouldn't do and then re-emphasizing the point by yelling it. Looks like an interesting, easy class that calls upon my strengths as a reader and an analytical thinker.

Environmental concepts, while it contains interesting topics (climate change, pollution, water quality etc.) is boring. Very boring. I have no idea how the teacher manages to make me feel like falling asleep while she is dramatically asking us if we would give up our way of living so that someone in a third world country could have a better life.

Sociology seems decent.

History of the Soviet is really interesting. The teacher reminds me of Grandpa. If my Grandpa spoke with a Russian accent. The teacher is white haired and hilarious with a subtle, slightly stinging humor. His lectures are what remind me so much of my Grandpa. His storytelling skills are amazing. He spoke about what makes a leader "Great". In the process he gave us examples of great leaders from the past and it was all so interesting that I was just itching to write notes. I hate taking notes. But I would gladly do it for this class as I want to remember all of the super cool things he spoke of.

And to save the best for last.........

RUSSIAN!!!!!! is amazing. I love my teacher. She obviously loves to teach which makes the class so much fun. I have learned so much in my first two days of class, not only how to read Russian, but also a lot of the culture. This is already one of the best classes that I have ever taken. I cannot even explain how much fun this class is.

She somehow manages to teach without even trying. While she was introducing herself I learned some Russian. She is Russian, so she has a Russian name so when she was introducing herself she wrote her name up on the board and showed us what the different parts of her name meant. Like part of her last name is her dad's name, and how most people are called by a diminutive of their name. So awesome.

Life as a college student has been pretty good. My sleep schedule is all wacky, which is why I spent two hours of my afternoon sleeping. I have yet to do laundry, which I kinda really need to do. I have cleaned up my room though. It was getting a bit messy. The food is pretty decent and I have managed to avoid going near the dessert table. Except for today. And the weekends do not count. I think I will manage to avoid the freshman 15, thank goodness. I also got a gym membership that I am even using! It helps that I go with my friends.

Its really surprising how many people from Minnesota are here. There is a girl on my floor who is California, two people that I met today who are from England, some people from Mexico, my next door neighbor from Taiwan, a girl from Chile, and then people from lots of other places like Croatia and Finland. And then there are the guys from France that me and Heather run into everywhere. We met them the first night and I swear that either I am unconsciously stalking them or they are stalking me. Seriously. They are everywhere!!!

I really need to go do my laundry.....