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ok ok, first, i know i've not been answering comments, sorry. i will get to that. but at the moment i'm about to head back to campus to class soon.
today was my first real day of classes, even though school officially started yesterday. always starts at 4pm and i had no classes that late. sooo. a couple of good and bad things happened today. first off, i decided to get online and see if i could print out a smaller version of my schedule, as it's currently on two separate pages which is inconvenient to pull out constantly to see when and where i'm going to what. so i looked it up - they had cancelled one of my classes! that's the first time that's ever happened to me. i don't hear of it happening often. it was just a gen ed philosophy of science class and i wasn't too excited about it. but the problem is that now i have a huge gap in my schedule and nothing to fill it. it's too late! you can't even register anymore after friday. and all the classes that i would/could have taken instead are already full. and all the backups and alternatives are as well. i don't know what to do! the only class that would fit is one that i already opted not to take because of the time. even though i'd love to take it. it's advanced german composition, and i'm able to sign up...but the class is from 6.30pm-9pm! no way. that's too late for me. but everything else is literally full.
soooo. i went in early and popped by olivia's office to ask if i would be able to take her german lit class. i hadn't even thought about taking that one before because i know i'm not cleared for it. i need to have taken at least 452 (advanced german comp) and maybe even 453 (convo). this class is level 529. she, unfortunately, cannot make that decision - the department head has to do that. herr teichert. so she'll talk to him for me, but i'm really doubting being let into that class. which is such a bummer because it's one that would not only fit my schedule, but it's only got nine other kids, it seems interesting, and....it's only taught by my favorite teacher ever. haha. to make matters worse, western just switched to a flat-rate tuition, so even though they dumped one of my classes on me, i'm still paying the same freaking amount. is that not bullshit? they upped tuition by 14.5%, to boot. they are raping us college students. judith bailey (the president of wmu) is doing the worst job EVER. it wouldn't even be so bad if they'd actually put the money to good use. but that's another rant, lol.
point being, i'm in a bind. i have only 12 credit hours left at this point, and especially for the rate i'm being charged, that's simply not enough. i'm kind of hoping against hope, but i would really love to get into that german lit class. otherwise...i have no clue.
but. that was the bad part of the day. it just got better from there on out. i went to my french novel class and that was fun. i had the teacher once two years ago for close reading in french, and he remembered me. he's just hysterical. he refers to himself as "the wilhite experience." LOL. wilhite is his name. but he really is so funny. he started speaking to me in french (even though this class - unfortunately - is taught in english) and i had to struggle for a few seconds to spit out some french. he asked what i'd done over the summer and i told him about germany and how my german is better than my french now. so he spit out a couple sentences of german. very funny and he can't really understand it, but he knows a few phrases. anyways. that ought to be a fun class.
and then i went to sprau tower to wait the 45 minutes until my next class. and i saw walter outside. he's a friend and a fellow french major. he was talking to a girl but i went up and said hi anyways, since the last time i'd seen him was in france. well, he had to leave shortly thereafter to go to class, but the girl, her name's jane, and i kept chatting. she's actually german. though not born in germany. her family is german and she learned it at home and still speaks it. and she's so funny and interesting. she's also very popular. if i had a dollar for every person that stopped to say hi and/or hug her and squeal at having seen her again, i'd have almost twenty bucks. haha. but we chatted for about 40 minutes and then, as i had to leave, we switched phone numbers and screennames/email addresses. she already invited me to her parent's house (in pontiac, michigan) october 8 for oktoberfest. her family originates from bavaria and celebrate that every year.
anyways. i ran into so many other people today. i'd forgotten how many people i know here. it's so nice being back and seeing everybody and having people come out of nowhere and say hi, cause they know me. i'd forgotten how much i loved it here. i'm really glad i like it here so much; makes it easier for me to get over germany.
but anyways. i just devoured an entire container of oat floured date pieces. they're so yum. i walked to sawall just to get them, i'd been craving them so bad. i found some sparkling water there, too, and bought about 7 liters of it. but the sun is shining today and i was just sweating by the time i got back home. sawall is further away than i'd remembered.
anywho, i've got to go run and change again and head to class soon. i will get around to commenting/replying later. sorry! =D
today was my first real day of classes, even though school officially started yesterday. always starts at 4pm and i had no classes that late. sooo. a couple of good and bad things happened today. first off, i decided to get online and see if i could print out a smaller version of my schedule, as it's currently on two separate pages which is inconvenient to pull out constantly to see when and where i'm going to what. so i looked it up - they had cancelled one of my classes! that's the first time that's ever happened to me. i don't hear of it happening often. it was just a gen ed philosophy of science class and i wasn't too excited about it. but the problem is that now i have a huge gap in my schedule and nothing to fill it. it's too late! you can't even register anymore after friday. and all the classes that i would/could have taken instead are already full. and all the backups and alternatives are as well. i don't know what to do! the only class that would fit is one that i already opted not to take because of the time. even though i'd love to take it. it's advanced german composition, and i'm able to sign up...but the class is from 6.30pm-9pm! no way. that's too late for me. but everything else is literally full.
soooo. i went in early and popped by olivia's office to ask if i would be able to take her german lit class. i hadn't even thought about taking that one before because i know i'm not cleared for it. i need to have taken at least 452 (advanced german comp) and maybe even 453 (convo). this class is level 529. she, unfortunately, cannot make that decision - the department head has to do that. herr teichert. so she'll talk to him for me, but i'm really doubting being let into that class. which is such a bummer because it's one that would not only fit my schedule, but it's only got nine other kids, it seems interesting, and....it's only taught by my favorite teacher ever. haha. to make matters worse, western just switched to a flat-rate tuition, so even though they dumped one of my classes on me, i'm still paying the same freaking amount. is that not bullshit? they upped tuition by 14.5%, to boot. they are raping us college students. judith bailey (the president of wmu) is doing the worst job EVER. it wouldn't even be so bad if they'd actually put the money to good use. but that's another rant, lol.
point being, i'm in a bind. i have only 12 credit hours left at this point, and especially for the rate i'm being charged, that's simply not enough. i'm kind of hoping against hope, but i would really love to get into that german lit class. otherwise...i have no clue.
but. that was the bad part of the day. it just got better from there on out. i went to my french novel class and that was fun. i had the teacher once two years ago for close reading in french, and he remembered me. he's just hysterical. he refers to himself as "the wilhite experience." LOL. wilhite is his name. but he really is so funny. he started speaking to me in french (even though this class - unfortunately - is taught in english) and i had to struggle for a few seconds to spit out some french. he asked what i'd done over the summer and i told him about germany and how my german is better than my french now. so he spit out a couple sentences of german. very funny and he can't really understand it, but he knows a few phrases. anyways. that ought to be a fun class.
and then i went to sprau tower to wait the 45 minutes until my next class. and i saw walter outside. he's a friend and a fellow french major. he was talking to a girl but i went up and said hi anyways, since the last time i'd seen him was in france. well, he had to leave shortly thereafter to go to class, but the girl, her name's jane, and i kept chatting. she's actually german. though not born in germany. her family is german and she learned it at home and still speaks it. and she's so funny and interesting. she's also very popular. if i had a dollar for every person that stopped to say hi and/or hug her and squeal at having seen her again, i'd have almost twenty bucks. haha. but we chatted for about 40 minutes and then, as i had to leave, we switched phone numbers and screennames/email addresses. she already invited me to her parent's house (in pontiac, michigan) october 8 for oktoberfest. her family originates from bavaria and celebrate that every year.
anyways. i ran into so many other people today. i'd forgotten how many people i know here. it's so nice being back and seeing everybody and having people come out of nowhere and say hi, cause they know me. i'd forgotten how much i loved it here. i'm really glad i like it here so much; makes it easier for me to get over germany.
but anyways. i just devoured an entire container of oat floured date pieces. they're so yum. i walked to sawall just to get them, i'd been craving them so bad. i found some sparkling water there, too, and bought about 7 liters of it. but the sun is shining today and i was just sweating by the time i got back home. sawall is further away than i'd remembered.
anywho, i've got to go run and change again and head to class soon. i will get around to commenting/replying later. sorry! =D