debbie
Home Sweet Home
November 12, 2005
Ah, to be home again. ‘Tis a wonderful thing.
After being away from home for several weeks, it’s nice to come home for the long weekend. I am especially lucky, because I can stay an extra day [Monday], and just relax and do homework. Well, right now it’s just been relaxing…I haven’t completed nearly the amount of homework that I was hoping for. Oh well, I have tomorrow and Monday to rectify that. It’s just a lot of tedious reading, mainly to stay caught up for class discussions.
I signed up for classes a week ago? I can’t remember when exactly. It was my first time registering for classes online, I am used to standing INline. Ha ha. That was a lame pun. It was an interesting experience to say the least, although nothing replaces the standing in line bonding time. You would always find some friend to stand in line with, and commiserate about how horrible it was to be waiting 2 hours to sign up for classes. Laughing, joking, swapping stories on which teacher was best for which subject, yelling across the room at some lucky friend who was way ahead of you, vowing to arrive 20 minutes earlier next semester. Nothing beats that. Now, it’s impersonal - at first I wasn’t even sure I got all the classes I wanted, but as I look over the SOAR site, apparently I did. Sweet.
Anyways, I am signed up for Japanese 102, Two courses of Creative writing - one fiction, one non-fiction, A seminar on African-American Literature, and an upper-level Shakespeare class. Five courses, it’s been a long time since I have had such a heavy course-load. My Shakespeare class is my drop class, so if things got rough, that would be the class I get rid of. I figure, if I get that 5th class for free [and we do], why not take advantage of that? The worse that can happen is I have to drop out because it’s too heavy of a course-load. The hardest classes are probably going to be my Japanese class and MAYbe the African-American Seminar.
I am not too worried about the writing classes and the Shakespeare. I could just get a rude awakening though - ha ha. Let’s hope not. Japanese I know is going to be rough, but I have come to terms with that.
I was talking to a friend of mine who goes to Boston University, she suggested that I consider teaching English in foreign countries for a living. She even went so far as to suggest China, which apparently would pay good money for a foreign language teacher. I am definitely considering it, you have to figure, getting to travel to exotic places - learn new cultures and languages…how exciting would that be? I talked to Chris about it, and he was all for it, since he would have to be in tow. I would have gone regardless, but shhh…don’t tell him I said that.
Personally, I would love to go to Japan, since I am learning the language and all. I am just disappointed I missed out on the Japanese short-term that is occurring this June. It would have been a wonderful opportunity to be immersed in the culture, and the best way to use what I have learned.
Ah! Samurai Champloo is on! It’s been a long time since I have had a chance to see it! It just stinks because it’s dubbed in English…and it’s a re-run. Dangit. Trivia: I named one of my Betta fish after the main character Jin on the show. :oD Ha ha. Anyways.
~Debbie
Posted by debbie13 at November 12, 2005 11:32 PM