I feel like I have a ton to write, but some of it I'm not at liberty to discuss just yet. Soon though. For now, I'll give you the run down of my schedule this semester. I work Monday through Friday from 8 to about noon. It's kind of nice to start the day with something familiar. Except yesterday was kind of crazy. I had a special project to do for one of the full time employees, which wasn't that complicated really, but it took a few tries to get it right. Then I do receiving logs twice each morning, and they index themselves into the database, and we just check them to make sure they're accurate. Well the setting that lets them index themselves wouldn't work, so I just had to scan them into an inbasket and leave it at that. I thought we'd have to index them by hand. I didn't have time to try though. Turns out that doing it by hand wouldn't work either and my coworker had to have the IS people look at it and see if they couldn't fix it. I hope they did, otherwise this next week will be super crazy too.
On MWF, I have Methods and Strategies in TESOL. Basically we learn how to teach English as a second language. My teacher is from New Zealand, so I love her. She's funny and I enjoy listening to her voice. Haha. So I think that class will be good. We're starting off with a group project. Hopefully that goes well.
On Monday, I have Judaism and the Gospel. It seems like it will be an interesting class. It's kind of nice to have just once a week (and because Labor Day is next week, I don't have it again for a while). I'll certainly still have to work hard in it, and there's quite a bit of reading, but it sounds interesting at least.
On TTh, I have my advanced writing GE, which is writing about religion. If I have to write academically, it might as well be about religion. There is too much reading in my opinion. I'm not an English major. Blech.
I also have a class that is basically computer programming. I didn't quite get that from the description of the class, so it was kind of a shock and scare, but I actually find it quite interesting. It might turn out to be a fave. We'll see. I got to use pseudocode to make a program for a robot to do certain stuff and it was really fun to think through and get it to work. I was so excited, and it looked like I was playing a game. (See picture above.)
Every day at 4 I have Spanish. It's killer to have it so late in the day, but it's okay. I know a couple people in the class–one from my old class, and one from my ward, and I've made another friend, so that helps. I wasn't sure about my teacher at first. She didn't smile at all the first day. That was worrisome. But she seems like she'll be alright. Sure, probably not as good as my last teacher, but it'll be hard to measure up to him. He really changed my view and attitude about learning Spanish. See this post. It actually doesn't talk about him as much as it should. He was great.
So this is a crazy semester. But it's going to be great. I'm determined. If I can stay on top of everything (there's the challenge), I think I'll enjoy it and learn a lot. If I can't stay on top of the readings especially, well...it'll be interesting. Several of my teachers do quizzes. I kind of hate that. Oh well.
Here's to a great semester...and I'll tell you soon what other awesome stuff I've got coming my way. It'll be crazy!
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