It's a real update!
Okay, so last night was more of a "Meh heh heh tonight was awesome, let's write about it =3" and then I got to thinking, I'd really like to update just so I have something to read when I'm looking back on my lonely, lonely days in El Centro, the American way!
Well, my first class of the week is psychology 101 at 7 am, and will thus be the first thing I dicuss, and events will take place in this order.
So! Psychology is amazing. My teacher is a wonderful, kind, intelligent man who is extremely passionate about this field of work and really tries to impress that upon all of us, which he does. On our first exam on Memory, I managed to get an A while the rest of the class averaged in C's and D's. Pretty incredible feeling, I've gotta say. One amazingly helpful thing I've learned in tis class is that it actually does work for me when you look at flashcards of voabulary or important need-to-know stuff an hour before you go to sleep, and they're so easy to recall in the morning! Try it. It's awesome.
Spanish 100 follows that class, and it's not as terrible as I thought it was in the first week or two. Languages are easy once you train your ear to start listening to them, ya know? So, we have our first exam within the first or second week, and after I'm certain that I'm going to scrape by with a C or D and just assign this class to be my real project class. The one I'm not excellent at, but will just have to stick it out with. I was seriously contemplating dropping it for about a couple of days, but then I got my exam handed back with a nice satisfying B on it =) I love conjugation... it usually makes sense.
This is followed by English 101, in which my teacher is an absolute doll. He's really adorable when he runs around the class, exhaulting grammar in the highest praises, it just makes you giggle. This is a guy who you can really tell loves English... so it's a really entertaining class =) No exam in it yet, but we're writing a lot of essays which are supposed to be narratives regarding significant events in our childhood, 3 drafts, one final. I've chosen to write about The Phantom of the Opera so far, and can't think of anything else. So! We'll see. I love English, and I think it'd be hysterical if this is the one class I manage to fuck up in. I would have to be trying to fail, if this were the case, I like to believe.
Then I have Alcoholism [ADS 101] , which was really quite terrible at first. It was all just a bunch of whiners complaining that their daddy's didn't love them enough because their daddy's liked drinking and bleh bleh bleh. Not to be insensitive, but these people need therapy, not a class. I'm here to learn about the fundamentals of what this addiction is, what it does and what it can do. While I'm learning enough, we sometimes go to sit in circles and discuss what makes us unique as Adult Children of Alcoholics [ACA's, as we're referred to.]. While this is fascnating, this is stuff I've been learning about my entire life, thanks. ACA's have difficulty trusting people? Thanks! Found that one out. ACA's take themselves seriously. No shit, sherlock. Its just a lot of review, I guess. But I'm contributing during class now, hoping that keeping the class on track will keep a better layer of educational substance in our discussion times. I also got the highest score on our most recent exam, 21.5/22. It was a 22 point true/false test and what upsets me is that other people *didn't* pass this test. Again, the class averaged to C's and D's. It feels good to be smart, but I'd like to have classmates that can be intellectually stimulating. They're a few peope in the class that know what they're talking about, but that's kinda it.
Then I have History 121: Unites States History from 1877 and so on. It's pretty great stuff, I have my first exam on Monday. Since this class is one I have to wait on campus for 5 hours for, the events that correspond throughout that period of time definitely affect my take on the class. I didn't go last week because my day had been pretty much ripped apart during the time I was waiting for class, so I just went home. We'll see about that one! The professor is cool, he's just really cynical about America. In the not good way. Like, everything we've ever done has been bad, which is a pretty depressing point of view to be teaching from, but what can you do?
Been hanging out with this guy a lot, which is great, beause he's a wonderfully nice man. We watch lightning storms together and such and I really like hanging out with him.
And now I'm off to take a bubble bath in our jacuzzi tub. We realy lucked out by getting that peace of magic. This'll be my third bath in two days =D Hurraaaaayy!!!