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According to SOME people, the cold over here in Montréal is the only reason for which I have not been able to donner de mes nouvelles dernièrement. Cette some person shall be advised (us that correct English???):
1. McMUN (oui Alex, moque-toi de moi!) was held the weekend before the last one. Rich and interesting experience. But as staff room director I had a big work load already before the conference and hen for 4 days I spent all my time there, that is 12-15h a day! After that, deux jours de repos total se sont imposés!
2. Work: yes, I work here now. Sell popcorn, and while this might not be THE dream job, at least it pays and I can eat popcorn all day long (and become fat and fatter...). 14h a week normally, last week it came up to 20h, and this week probably as well!
3. Uni: for this second semester I again have 4 classes.
Spanish intermediate, it´s a year long class, so nothing new there except that is seems to be even more work than before. The prof is totalmente loco...!
Canadian Public Policy: very intersting, many reading that pourtant sont fascinants as well. The prof is a genius and the stuff is just cool!
JWST/American Jewish Community: a verrrry random class, small and I think that I am the only non Jew (and for sure the only German - with all the politically uncorrect jokes and comments arising from this fact..!). Very historical, probably totally useless for anything, but nevertheless a cool class, with a brilliant Jewish (obviously) prof from NYC (Columbia, by the way).
GEOG/Urban transportation: what can I say? Nothing much, because I hardly ever go to class as everything is online anyway and I have not yet opened the course pack. I don´t even remember the prof´s name. Midterm in 2 weeks....!
Am terribly behind in my readings, have homeworks and tests and things like that sans cesse, and 4 midterms coming up in the last week vefore reading week (dans 2 semaines qoui).
4. Sports: Have played squash only very little lately, but am a looser in that anyway. Started fencing again, which I just love, what a great sport. Physically very challenging and exhausting, extremely quick, and in the case of sabre, pretty aggresive though correct and friendly. Only problem: my defense is so weak, get practically beaten up ever now and then (say ... yesterday) and have ridiculous bruises on my arms and chest.
I think that summarizes it pretty well. Luckily that so many of my close friends left Montreal after the first semester, at least I don´t have a social life to worry about any longer. I can just run from one thing to the other, stop in between to read and maybe sleep a bit and keep on running, like a little Duracel Bunny.
Ca va le donnage de nouvelles? ;-)
A.
1. McMUN (oui Alex, moque-toi de moi!) was held the weekend before the last one. Rich and interesting experience. But as staff room director I had a big work load already before the conference and hen for 4 days I spent all my time there, that is 12-15h a day! After that, deux jours de repos total se sont imposés!
2. Work: yes, I work here now. Sell popcorn, and while this might not be THE dream job, at least it pays and I can eat popcorn all day long (and become fat and fatter...). 14h a week normally, last week it came up to 20h, and this week probably as well!
3. Uni: for this second semester I again have 4 classes.
Spanish intermediate, it´s a year long class, so nothing new there except that is seems to be even more work than before. The prof is totalmente loco...!
Canadian Public Policy: very intersting, many reading that pourtant sont fascinants as well. The prof is a genius and the stuff is just cool!
JWST/American Jewish Community: a verrrry random class, small and I think that I am the only non Jew (and for sure the only German - with all the politically uncorrect jokes and comments arising from this fact..!). Very historical, probably totally useless for anything, but nevertheless a cool class, with a brilliant Jewish (obviously) prof from NYC (Columbia, by the way).
GEOG/Urban transportation: what can I say? Nothing much, because I hardly ever go to class as everything is online anyway and I have not yet opened the course pack. I don´t even remember the prof´s name. Midterm in 2 weeks....!
Am terribly behind in my readings, have homeworks and tests and things like that sans cesse, and 4 midterms coming up in the last week vefore reading week (dans 2 semaines qoui).
4. Sports: Have played squash only very little lately, but am a looser in that anyway. Started fencing again, which I just love, what a great sport. Physically very challenging and exhausting, extremely quick, and in the case of sabre, pretty aggresive though correct and friendly. Only problem: my defense is so weak, get practically beaten up ever now and then (say ... yesterday) and have ridiculous bruises on my arms and chest.
I think that summarizes it pretty well. Luckily that so many of my close friends left Montreal after the first semester, at least I don´t have a social life to worry about any longer. I can just run from one thing to the other, stop in between to read and maybe sleep a bit and keep on running, like a little Duracel Bunny.
Ca va le donnage de nouvelles? ;-)
A.