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Today is so good! My 9 A.M. Spanish class is small and we can do some in depth conversation! I have an excuse to keep getting up early every day. My missing hair stick was on the ground outside of my car. I have a whole afternoon and evening ahead of me to leisurely do school reading and work, and organize my room. Dog is relaxed today....
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Yesterday was my first day back to school. I was terribly excited about it, despite the nagging worry up to my first class that I'd misread the schedule and was a week late or something. As the day went, I was almost quivering. I have the same history professor and Spanish professor again who I both like a lot. There were 28 people in my Spanish class, but the professor strongly encouraged me to switch to the 9 o' clock one instead of the 11 as there were only 5 people. "Chris, it will be beautiful for you!" It makes me feel good to have an instructor who cares about my situation and how I do. (Incidentally, when I arrived today for the early one, one of my former classmates commented that, with my presence, they'll hopefully be graded on a curve and do better. *giggles*) There will be few enough people there that I can learn all their names relatively quickly, and I think I'll learn a lot more thoroughly there.
After history class was over and most everybody else had left, I stayed a bit to talk to the professor about a book that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anarchist_nomad had lent me, as well as about her thoughts on whether slavery would have been sustainable without the Civil War. Another student was talking to her about the US after reconstruction and why civil rights gains didn't last and about the KKK and other racist groups. I joined that conversation 'cause it was really interesting. After a bit, she introduced the two of us to each other; I think he and I might get along. *grins*
My Southeast Asia ethnography class sounds really intriguing. We went through the syllabus, then the professor talked about the class in general and about her experiences in Southeast Asia. She speaks several of the languages of the region and I'm really excited about learning from her. For the first time, she's including a student-created wiki as part of the class, and had suggestions for things that a couple of us could look at adding to it that are relevant to our interests. This is a 200 level class and involves things like a Powerpoint presentation and some serious analysis, writing, and discussion. I'm intimidated and nervous as these are new to me in an academic context. But I think this will be really good.
In art history, we all filled out a little piece of paper with basic info and answered the question "What's your favorite pieces of art?" This could include any sort of visual media like TV or film. The professor later asked if anyone would like to talk about what they picked. The woman next to me, who I know from art club, talked about specific comic books and artists and what she liked about them. I talked about Theodore Roszak's Forms in Transit and how I loved the optimistic futurism of it and the world's fair that it was created for. She thought that was neat and talked briefly about the way world's fairs have influenced art. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class. I originally sat down in the front row, but when Jordan from art club saw me and said hi, I moved up to sit with her. I think she and I were two of only three volunteers who wanted to talk about their choice.
I'm nervous because i still don't have the book I'm supposed to be reading. It's in the mail, and I hope it will arrive soon! But in the meantime, there's a compiled version of the book on reserve in the school library. I checked out the book in the school bookstore today so I can be sure how the reading matches up with the other version, and I'm going to drop into the library and read it prior to class tomorrow.
What else? I'm feeling really good about class this morning, and now I've got a big chunk of time to myself. And I'm going to take advantage of it!
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Yesterday was my first day back to school. I was terribly excited about it, despite the nagging worry up to my first class that I'd misread the schedule and was a week late or something. As the day went, I was almost quivering. I have the same history professor and Spanish professor again who I both like a lot. There were 28 people in my Spanish class, but the professor strongly encouraged me to switch to the 9 o' clock one instead of the 11 as there were only 5 people. "Chris, it will be beautiful for you!" It makes me feel good to have an instructor who cares about my situation and how I do. (Incidentally, when I arrived today for the early one, one of my former classmates commented that, with my presence, they'll hopefully be graded on a curve and do better. *giggles*) There will be few enough people there that I can learn all their names relatively quickly, and I think I'll learn a lot more thoroughly there.
After history class was over and most everybody else had left, I stayed a bit to talk to the professor about a book that
anarchist_nomad had lent me, as well as about her thoughts on whether slavery would have been sustainable without the Civil War. Another student was talking to her about the US after reconstruction and why civil rights gains didn't last and about the KKK and other racist groups. I joined that conversation 'cause it was really interesting. After a bit, she introduced the two of us to each other; I think he and I might get along. *grins*My Southeast Asia ethnography class sounds really intriguing. We went through the syllabus, then the professor talked about the class in general and about her experiences in Southeast Asia. She speaks several of the languages of the region and I'm really excited about learning from her. For the first time, she's including a student-created wiki as part of the class, and had suggestions for things that a couple of us could look at adding to it that are relevant to our interests. This is a 200 level class and involves things like a Powerpoint presentation and some serious analysis, writing, and discussion. I'm intimidated and nervous as these are new to me in an academic context. But I think this will be really good.
In art history, we all filled out a little piece of paper with basic info and answered the question "What's your favorite pieces of art?" This could include any sort of visual media like TV or film. The professor later asked if anyone would like to talk about what they picked. The woman next to me, who I know from art club, talked about specific comic books and artists and what she liked about them. I talked about Theodore Roszak's Forms in Transit and how I loved the optimistic futurism of it and the world's fair that it was created for. She thought that was neat and talked briefly about the way world's fairs have influenced art. I think I'm really going to enjoy this class. I originally sat down in the front row, but when Jordan from art club saw me and said hi, I moved up to sit with her. I think she and I were two of only three volunteers who wanted to talk about their choice.
I'm nervous because i still don't have the book I'm supposed to be reading. It's in the mail, and I hope it will arrive soon! But in the meantime, there's a compiled version of the book on reserve in the school library. I checked out the book in the school bookstore today so I can be sure how the reading matches up with the other version, and I'm going to drop into the library and read it prior to class tomorrow.
What else? I'm feeling really good about class this morning, and now I've got a big chunk of time to myself. And I'm going to take advantage of it!