... 15 more weeks to go :)
It has been an adventure to say the least with this whole "getting back into the swing of things". I checked into work on Monday when I was in town and got my work schedule... it was bittersweet. I work on Sunday nights now instead of Sunday mornings, which means I can't feed homeless people this semester. Kinda a bummer, because I really looked forward to it,... BUT I need money, and we'll get to why in just a bit.
K, so day one I went to Aerobics and LOVED the instructor!! We start on Tuesday and I'm soooooooo excited!! My squishy lil self is going to *hopefully* get in (a less-squishy) shape. Woo Hoo! Then I went to my Science-Education class where I nearly ate it as I walked...or rather tripped up the stairs. I met some pretty chill people in my class though. One guy is named Greg, who is one of 16 kids, but he looks like a Charles, and thus I have renamed him. After class, I managed to lose contact with the outside world as I waited in the computer lab in the library for Erik, but I found out my phone has NO service there. So I went to Starbucks by myself and then met up with Kevin at the PE building, where he had found himself a job. I went on to one of two Math-Education courses where I was greeted by Satan himself, in the flesh. After I sat through an hour of Hell 101 (we got out early), I went to my second and last class of the day, my other Math-Ed class. I had the professor before and only took her again because of the hours the class was meeting at. Well, after sitting with Satan, I joyfully approached my last class and sat in the front row. I even answered questions and helped out during group work! Then I realized halfway through class that it was TACO TUESDAY! So I called Erik, who didn't answer, and hit up dell taco by myself :/ But it was still fun.
Then...
Erik kidnapped me and we went out to Dippin' Dots!! And caught up over some of the events this summer :) It was really nice to see him again and I plan on meeting up quite often. Oh oh! We went grocery store shopping too!! It was soooooo much fun! I have officially decided that grocery shopping is better with a friend. Always. And yes, there was a dance party... in the plastic sandwich bad aisle I believe? Or maybe it was with the peanut butter? Well, either way, it was awesome :)
So short story not so short, That was Tuesday.
Wednesday- I walked to school and saw some of my AOIIs :) Then went to Karate and I can't wait to start practice on Wednesday!! The instructor remembered me, even though it had been 2 years and greeted me with a smile and a "welcome back". It was great. He was one of my favorite instructors too!
After class I went to my first night of work back at the Dining Hall. Met some new co-workers, saw the old crew, and had a busy, but fun night :) It's always more fun when we have a full staff :)
Thursday...
Oh my.
K, so repeat of Tuesday, minus Aerobics (instructor was sick), no tripping on stairs, and add going to breakfast at the dining hall (wow, the potatoes were AWESOME). Packed a lunch of peanut butter & jelly, animals crackers, apple juice and a banana :) Then went to the torture chamber of LA-5, also known as my first math-ed class, went happily to my second math-ed class and left early to attend a meeting for study abroad in Ireland.
Before going to the meeting I was going back and forth on the whole Ireland trip, because it's going to cost me $3000 (well $1500, thanks parents!!) and I'm only over there for a month... but that's a good thing, because I'll still be back for spring semester! So yeah, I was first up on the waitlist and was fully prepared to say "no thank you" if accepted, but after meeting the professor and hearing more about the course and the trip, I was soooo hyped on going!! Which is good because...
I got in!
So I leave on December 31st and will return on January 22nd. What a great new Year's :) The last two New Years' were not the greatest.... although my parents have some pretty sweet stuff planned this year.
Alright, so I leave the meeting, grab a sandwich and head off to my last class, an English-Education class. I was in a really good mood, got there semi-early and sat in the middle. I saw a few other people in class that I had previously in the years, so that was fun. Then our prof walks in. She seems... interesting. Well, remember Lucifer from my math class? Yeah, I was way wrong. This English lady makes the math devil seem like a lady nominated for sainthood. Her instructions were unclear, her expected amount of work was more than unreasonable if she's not going to be willing to assist in problematic areas, and her presentation style left me with cut up lips from biting myself to prevent zoning out. I'm sorry, but I'm not sitting through an arrogantly vague, pompous feminist for 3 hours on a Thursday night, when I can take the same class with a different professor next semester and still be on track to finish on the same timeline.
So yesterday, Lisa, bless her heart, convinced me to drop the class. So I did :)
And life is good.
One good thing the English demon left me with was a whole new appreciation for my math professor. She showed me that there really are people with less of a soul out there.
-K, I feel I should include examples. Here are two:
1) One girl approached the english professor at break and explained that she is the maid of honor in her sister's wedding and will have to miss a class meeting (date was noted) and asked what she could do to make it up. The student even offered suggestions, like turing in work early, but didn't know what to do about group work we were scheduled to have that day. The professor responded with "well, you wont be here. I don't see how you're going to be able to participate in class at 7 if you have to be somewhere in Long Beach at 6:30" and the girl said "Is there anything I can do?" and the professor replied "Well, as a professor, what do you expect me to do? If you're not in class, I can't do anything about that" or words to that extent... ok and this lady just got married (somehow) within the last year, so surely (if anyone attended the wedding) she should understand the importance of a maid of honor.
2) I asked about the structure of one of our weekly assignments, seeing as how I never had an assignment formatted in such a specific way (nor had the people around me who were just as lost). So I began to say "On the QHQ, the majority of our page will be our hypothesis section? and the Questions are only a sen-" I was about to say sentence until she cut me off with a reply of "it's on Beach Board. You will submit them on a forum and then print it out. And I'm sure you can figure out how to do that".
Does that seem like an appropriate response? I surely do not think so. Didn't even answer my question. So I stopped being involved.
Then Friday- I worked dinner again.
We were short by 4 people. Talk about craziness.
I got burnt twice. My blistered fingers are not happy with me.
But it was nice staying in, talking to Allan a bit and relaxing :)
