I missed breakfast yet again today. I didn't charge my phone yesterday, so it died during the night and thus my alarm didn't wake me up. I have an inside room with no windows, so it was really disorienting to wake up in total darkness. I looked at my phone to check the time and realized it wasn't on. I jumped out of bed in a panic. What time was it? Was it noon already? Or was it still early in the morning? I hurriedly turned on the lights and flipped open my laptop to check the time. No worries, it was only 8:48. I slept an hour more than I wanted to and didn't get breakfast, but I didn't sleep through my first class (which wasn't until 10:45).
My first class was Great Cities of Art and Architectural History. The professor is a young, pretty blonde lady named Betsy Chunko. She's a professor at West Point, which I thought was really neat. She seems nice and intelligent. The material we started to cover seemed a little intense to me. I'm completely clueless when it comes to architecture. most of this class is going to focus on the major European cities and the history of urban planning. It seems like it will be difficult, but I also think it will be the most interesting.
I had a quick half hour for lunch before going to my 12:30 class which is Northern European Literature and Film. This professor is an elderly and soft-spoke man name Julien Connolly. He is a Russian Literature professor at the University of Virginia (the U of VA academically sponsors SAS). He just went over all of the books and films we'll be studying for the next few weeks. Our first assignment is Don Quixote. From what I can tell, this class will be fairly easy, but it will be time consuming because of the amount of reading we'll have to do.
My next class at 3:20 (15:20) is Odin to Allah: Founational Religions of Europe. Right away, I knew that this professor was going to be my favorite. Terri Smith is funny and interesting. She captivated my attention, and I could tell that she is very passionate about her subject. She explained that most people think that studying religion is useless, but it's actually very important. So much of the world's history is based on religion. She said (and I agree with her) that all students should take at least one class on religion just to get a basic understanding of all the different types of faith there are. Carroll requires their students to take a theology class, and it ended up being one of my favorite courses I took my freshman year. This is definitely the class I'm most excited for.
After class, I went to the Campus Store where I will be doing my work study this summer. I was awarded a scholarship to be an employee at the store, and I will have to work two hours a day while at see (but I won't have to work at all while we're in port). Four other students are working at the store, but we all have different shifts so we won't be working together. However, we will be working with one of the ships staff. She is a very nice woman named Percy, and she is from the Philippines. She gave me a quick run-down of how the cash register works. Pretty simple. Part of the store sells clothing, and the other half sells goods like food, school supplies, toiletries, and the like. Today I worked in the clothing area. Guess what I had to do? Fold t-shirts!! Shout out to all of the ladies at the Trading Post! My go-to job at the Trading Post when we weren't busy was folding t-shirts. Fun, fun, fun *sarcasms*
I just finished dinner, and I'm now procrastinating starting my homework, so I'm writing to you all instead. But as it seems I'm almost done with this post, I should probably start reading... dang.
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