Marina (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} marinalives) wrote,@ 2004-01-23 13:09:00 |
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Busy busy busy!
My second week of school just ended. What was supposed to be the first week of school got cancelled because the entire city of Portland was covered in several inches of ice! It was really exciting for the first day or two, then really boring because I couldn't get out of the house and nothing was open to go to anyway, and then everyone was like, "Oh, I guess we can use shovels and snow plows, huh" and life got back to normal. There are still piles of dirty snow and ice in random corners, but the sidewalks and streets are clear. It's been very, very cold. Yesterday felt like about 20 degrees. Not fun biking weather. But today it started drizzling and feels more like 40 degrees. Much better.
I'm taking a full load this quarter, and it's definitely keeping me busy! I'm finding that I actually need to study for sign language class and math class, rather than being able to get all the homework done in half an hour and without much thought. My writing class is okay... pretty basic, but not bad. The International Political Poetry class is just as fabulous as I hoped it would be. The teacher is obviously at least as excited as the students to be there. We're reading some wonderful exciting stuff. Each of the students has to bring in one poem and read it to the class. I did mine yesterday. I picked "Lunch in Nablus City Park" by Naomi Shihab Nye with the help ofjwitchbaby. It was pretty fun... I really like that poem, and a couple of the other students came up to me afterwards and said they did too.
We've had a lot of visitors this month, too. Jessica from New York and Dawn from Canada have been here all month. Victor, Jamie and Erin from Davis CA came up for a week. Kat was here for a couple days, and Robyn and Josh visited, but I missed them because I was in Colorado! Chris, Liz, Ryland and I drove to Colorado to surprise Carrie for her birthday. It took us twenty-four hours to get there, we stayed Saturday and Sunday, and drove back on Monday in twenty-three hours. It was really intense, but really really fun. I can't think of better people to roadtrip with.
But life's starting to settle into a routine. Nick will be back from his winter break on Monday, and Jessica and Dawn will leave in the next couple weeks. I'm spending a solid forty hours a week at school. Life is good, and there's lots to do and think about and look forward to.
My second week of school just ended. What was supposed to be the first week of school got cancelled because the entire city of Portland was covered in several inches of ice! It was really exciting for the first day or two, then really boring because I couldn't get out of the house and nothing was open to go to anyway, and then everyone was like, "Oh, I guess we can use shovels and snow plows, huh" and life got back to normal. There are still piles of dirty snow and ice in random corners, but the sidewalks and streets are clear. It's been very, very cold. Yesterday felt like about 20 degrees. Not fun biking weather. But today it started drizzling and feels more like 40 degrees. Much better.
I'm taking a full load this quarter, and it's definitely keeping me busy! I'm finding that I actually need to study for sign language class and math class, rather than being able to get all the homework done in half an hour and without much thought. My writing class is okay... pretty basic, but not bad. The International Political Poetry class is just as fabulous as I hoped it would be. The teacher is obviously at least as excited as the students to be there. We're reading some wonderful exciting stuff. Each of the students has to bring in one poem and read it to the class. I did mine yesterday. I picked "Lunch in Nablus City Park" by Naomi Shihab Nye with the help of
jwitchbaby. It was pretty fun... I really like that poem, and a couple of the other students came up to me afterwards and said they did too.We've had a lot of visitors this month, too. Jessica from New York and Dawn from Canada have been here all month. Victor, Jamie and Erin from Davis CA came up for a week. Kat was here for a couple days, and Robyn and Josh visited, but I missed them because I was in Colorado! Chris, Liz, Ryland and I drove to Colorado to surprise Carrie for her birthday. It took us twenty-four hours to get there, we stayed Saturday and Sunday, and drove back on Monday in twenty-three hours. It was really intense, but really really fun. I can't think of better people to roadtrip with.
But life's starting to settle into a routine. Nick will be back from his winter break on Monday, and Jessica and Dawn will leave in the next couple weeks. I'm spending a solid forty hours a week at school. Life is good, and there's lots to do and think about and look forward to.
