6-2k10 update
Report of my life: I'm back in Minneapolis for the summer after finishing my second year of school. In a personal refusal to A) take excessive amounts of photos, and B) use Twitter, I've decided to try and focus a little more on updating my LiveJournal in order to document my life a little better. It is, after all, so interesting. I'm living at my parents' home again (my home, still), working at the pub, and taking three classes. Two are online through SFU: Ed. Psych. (horrible, so many web posts) and Tourism and Social Policy (interesting enough), and then a Population Geography class through the U of M that hasn't started yet. It has been a nice 5 or so weeks being back from school, a nice amount of time to decompress from yet another fantastically intense year of university. I've declared an International Studies major (Stream in International Development, Environmental, and Economic Issues) and a Geography minor, with a Certificate in Liberal Arts. I think the IS major might become an IS Honors (I have yet to accept the British spelling, honours) because I'm a bit of a research nerd, and grad school seems to be on the horizon. I still have yet to decide on that front. I'm in these three classes this summer instead of working another job or enjoying my youth (how unproductive) because there just seem to be so many requirements for my major. Luckily, I am exempt from the study abroad requirement because I'm from the States but not the foreign language requirement. The problem is, who doesn't want to study abroad during undergrad (or grad school for that matter)? And the problem with the foreign language component is that I have spent a life being muddled in various languages (German and Chinese). It's hard to come from this sort of awkward intermediate level in both languages (not really in Chinese actually, just a really weird beginner level I guess) and assimilate into university language training. My current foreseeable solution is to just start a new language: Spanish, French, Italian, or Japanese. French is looking like a "no" unless I decide I want to stay in Canada after my undergrad (probably not), and Italian would be fun, but it is more about being able to talk to relatives when I go visit them (hopefully sometime in my life) than actual career applicability. So, Spanish or Japanese? That is the question. Both have a lot of established opportunities for learning the language abroad, which is necessary.
The updates on my life will continue later... now, homework calls (yes, I know, it's summer). And it has to get done before hosting tonight.
But final thoughts- on the horizon for the summer: a couple good concerts hopefully, some attempted convincing of friends to go camping with me up north, maybe some new piercings, maybe a tattoo, trying to lose ten pounds, the World Cup 2010 at work for the next month (at least I get to sell beer and make some tips), and a whole lot of shenanigans that I can't yet foresee! Que excite!...Is that even a real phrase?
The updates on my life will continue later... now, homework calls (yes, I know, it's summer). And it has to get done before hosting tonight.
But final thoughts- on the horizon for the summer: a couple good concerts hopefully, some attempted convincing of friends to go camping with me up north, maybe some new piercings, maybe a tattoo, trying to lose ten pounds, the World Cup 2010 at work for the next month (at least I get to sell beer and make some tips), and a whole lot of shenanigans that I can't yet foresee! Que excite!...Is that even a real phrase?