I have officially started my second semester of college. Although I was mostly excited for today and yesterday, I also was a bit nervous about everything. The things that concerned me the most were whether or not my wheelchair would fit inside the classrooms easily and whether or not I would actually make friends. Much to my surprise, I did not have any problems with either of those things. However, lucky me, I woke up this morning with a horribly painful sore throat, so that has been no fun. Thankfully the Student Health Services has extremely inexpensive cough drops and things of the like, so I bought about a million things to help my sore throat.
Other than getting sick, so far things are great. I seem to be getting right back into the swing of things and so far I am really enjoying my classes. This semester I am taking a creative writing class, an English class, a Spanish class and a German class. So far I like my German class the best, because the professor is really cool and the teaching style is unlike any other class I have ever taken. The class is taught almost completely in German, which was absolutely crazy at first and I still have no clue what half of the stuff my professor said meant, but then things started clicking and I was just able to figure out some of the things he was saying and it was really awesome.
My other classes were good too, with English coming in second place as far as cool professors go. My English professor came in late, and was immediately unhappy with the room, cursing left and right about how it didn't have a projector and things were all broken down. One guy said he was savage and I'm pretty sure the whole class agreed. He is definitely a no-nonsense professor, but I talked to him after class and he was extremely nice. My Spanish class seems like it will be nice as well, but I'm worried it will be too easy. At the same time, I think it may help me perfect my Spanish so I think I will stay in it. Lastly, my creative writing class seems like it will be a lot of work, but the professor is funny so I think that will make up for it. He does smell disgustingly like cigarettes though (which I just found out will be banned on my campus come fall, so that's exciting).
In some classes I already knew a few people and in others I made some friends, and I even met some guy on the shuttle who was very nice. The last few days have been great though and I am looking forward to the rest of the semester, but I will miss my friends and family back home (even though you did get me sick, mom). I guess I will just have to wait and see how things go and let you all know what happens.
Kim, you are amazing! Your blogs are sure to inspire more people than you know!
ReplyDeleteI took German all four years of high school and the teacher taught as you describe. It really helped me retain a lot of it for years. Now, without using it in almost 40 years, I don't remember much.
I love the fact that you are willing to share the good AND the not-so-good and be honest about it. What you write will help others through their own rough patches. YOU make the world a better place!!