Edit on Classes
You may know that I've had a very hard time trying to get all my classes in order so as to be able to graduate this spring. It's gotten complicated. Then, just as randomly, it was solved, in a rare coincidence that I in no way believe was a coincidence. Let me explain. Yesterday was a very....lets use the word "UNSUCCESSFUL" day for me and I was feeling extremely! while eating lunch in the UC. I was running 0 for 5 on hopeful suggestions, perhaps was even ready to give up working on this crazy degree. But, as I stepped outside the doors, head down, sullen expression, I saw my friend Katie walking with her boyfriend, John. (Katie and I were in China together). We go through the usual greetings and she asks me why I seem a bit upset. I say only, its cause I'm having a lot of trouble getting the classes I need to graduate. Then, John perks up: "Would you happen to need GOVT 336?" (Which is interesting enough because it was EXACTLY the class I NEEDED, the only one that would possibly fit into my schedule with the exception of the like-anthro course!) I also went ahead and dropped Calligraphy and am taking Contemporary China instead. This should be a fun class, so even though I'm disappointed that I won't be able to take the calligraphy, I'm not too disappointed.
With this new schedule, I have class from 10am until 6pm with a two one hour breaks for lunch or study (at 12 and at 2). And fortunately, the workload is not that difficult. I only have three papers in all--one ten pager, two seven pagers, and a whole lot of short response 1-2page papers. I have two take home midterms, two take home finals (and the rest are all in class). I have too many group oral presentations to count (in Chin 309-Chin 201-Chin 303-Govt 336) and have to get creative with a group dance as well as write and present my own like-Chinese-literature poems, songs, and stories. Fortunately, my last exam is on Monday, December 18th instead of the 22nd of December, so that gives me a couple more days to be home with my family!!!
On a different note, we were out of class today. Everything was closed down and it was an ugly, nasty day outside. Electricity has been on and off all day, and my roomie has gone to bunk up elsewhere for the night. Matt came by; it was good to see him again.
Glad to be back in the States. Glad that I only have one more year down here to finish this degree. Glad that I finally, thanks to HELP, got a schedule I can work with to be able to accomplish just that.
With this new schedule, I have class from 10am until 6pm with a two one hour breaks for lunch or study (at 12 and at 2). And fortunately, the workload is not that difficult. I only have three papers in all--one ten pager, two seven pagers, and a whole lot of short response 1-2page papers. I have two take home midterms, two take home finals (and the rest are all in class). I have too many group oral presentations to count (in Chin 309-Chin 201-Chin 303-Govt 336) and have to get creative with a group dance as well as write and present my own like-Chinese-literature poems, songs, and stories. Fortunately, my last exam is on Monday, December 18th instead of the 22nd of December, so that gives me a couple more days to be home with my family!!!
On a different note, we were out of class today. Everything was closed down and it was an ugly, nasty day outside. Electricity has been on and off all day, and my roomie has gone to bunk up elsewhere for the night. Matt came by; it was good to see him again.
Glad to be back in the States. Glad that I only have one more year down here to finish this degree. Glad that I finally, thanks to HELP, got a schedule I can work with to be able to accomplish just that.