Happenings.

Well! Week 2 has come to an end and was substantially more enjoyable than week 1.

First of all, I had all of my classes aside from one - but that one doesn't begin until March 30th. Anyway, I like them all so far.

Dutch -- Bonny. So... you know it will be good. Haha. No, but I think I'll be ok at it. I had my doubts at first but I think I can handle memorizing vocab... maybe.

Religion and/as Media -- The teacher for this class is new, I think. Or relatively new. She's really soft spoken and sweet. Anyway, the class is totally about what I'm interested in and I'm really happy to be taking another religion class.

Moving Manhood -- Yeah, so this class is basically perfect for me. It's about masculinity in general but like all classes here, you can always kind of turn the class into what you want it to be by choosing what to write about each week and for the final paper. So, I will most likely focus on homosexuality and masculinity which is basically one of three top things I'm interested in studying, so it's awesome. The teacher seems great too - and I think he might be the boyfriend/partner of my sexuality teacher last semester. Which, if true, would be awesome.

The Meaning of Having Children in Cultural Perspectives -- (This class hasn't started yet.) Although I took it because I one day want to work with schools and their sexual education/general policies on dealing with kids from non-traditional families and/or kids that feel they might be gay, transgender, etc. So I'm hoping I can focus predominantly on that in the class.

Lets see... Oh, so the gym has been going well I guess. Haven't seen many results yet but I know it's only been 2 weeks. I found something that I love though. It's called the cardio wave and I just found the most hilariously cheesy video about it so I have to post it --



Haha. But yeah... I was super close to breaking every elliptical trainer that existed because I was so sick of it. So I'm quite happy to have found something else to do.

Oh and I also created a flickr page. I never really had anywhere to put my photography and I think partly for that reason, I stopped doing it a lot. But I love it. And always have. And I really want to invest in some lenses and stuff because I think I have a pretty Ok camera that would be even better with some accessories. Anyway, here's the link - http://www.flickr.com/photos/anyakaats/

So, overall... I'm excited for this semester. I'm especially excited for it to get warm out. All I want to do is go to parks/tulip fields and take pictures. And I'm also excited because I finally met some people I really like. So that's always uplifting.

Well, I guess it's time for my weekly dose of vanity in the form of daily photobooth pictures. Haha.

WEEK TWO

one week down.

So, I've been here a week. Longest week of my life.

Still have gotten (nearly) nowhere in the socializing/friends department. But I'm less concerned about it than I was. There are definitely a few people I like and hopefully when I get more settled (and figure out a better going to the gym schedule that doesn't cut into other social activities) things will work themselves out.

Speaking of the gym - I have such a love/hate relationship with exercising. I think everyone does though. I mean... I hate it. It's an awful feeling to be sweaty and not be able to catch your breath. Of course, the after effects feel great but that's about it. I also think it's impossible for me to go to the gym in the morning because I don't feel fully awake until I take a shower and there's no point in taking a shower before going to the gym so I end up going at night. Which is ok, I guess... but tonight I could have made dinner with some people but knew I had to go to the gym so I did that instead. I need to not go to the gym at 8:00pm anymore, at least.

Even harder than the working out thing, though is eating well. It's not the foods themselves that are the problems... I generally like a lot of food that's healthy but it's the portions. The one thing I have a problem with is overeating. Especially salty foods. I could eat an entire bag of chips without thinking twice... after I've already eaten a full meal. So that's the kind of thing I really can't do anymore obviously and it's really, really hard to stop and/or find an alternative. I suppose maybe after a while my body will get used to not consuming that much crap but right now I'm really, really struggling with it. I haven't slipped or anything but it's requiring a ton of will power. Anyway, I want to lose 15 or so pounds because I gained that much in the past year and a half and I'd like to not look like a flabby rhino. Ha.

Anyway, had my first class today - Dutch. Not really all that exciting because Bonny teaches it and I pretty much knew what it was going to be like. But... we'll have to see how the whole memorization/tests/studying thing goes because I am completely horrible at all three of those things. Write a 20 page paper? Fine. Take a vocab test? Forget about it. Either way - I'm glad I'm taking it and hopefully I won't crash and burn.

OH and it's been a week so here is the beginning of daily pictures. I don't really know why I'm doing this - it's a little strange but I think it will be interesting when I have 4 months worth.

WEEK ONE

Bye, folks!