Mmm, Interesting

So the food here has been an adventure too. Not in a bad way, just in a strange way. There is always some sort of potato veriety available for the vegans and the vegetarians and the starved. Not as many chips (fries) as you would think. Also not much fish...still. You can never really tell from the menu what is actually going to be served because of the strange names they are given. One was something about something in the hole, it was weird lets just say that. Today was this sort of beef wrapped in pastery with cheese but cut like a cinemon bun. I liked it, but no one else semed to. They liked the weird chiken thing that I couldnt understand when I looked at it. Yesterday there were burgers but you got to choose whether you wanted a beef burger or a pork burger. I swear next time I am trying the pork burger, I just didnt have the energy after class yesterday. The desserts are fabulous. Today was this sort of chocolate mousse kind of thing. I survived through it without it ending up back in the bowel (shout out to parents). It was actually quite good. They usually have some weird form of cake too. Always good though.

Enough on the food how about classes? Any good stories Libby? Well on Wednesday Elizabeth and I were walking to German and when we walked into the class room I noticed it was not our teacher and almost non of our German class. So I turn to go but Elizabeth keeps going. So naturally I follow her and we stand awkwardly at the side of the class while the teacher is still talking. Then another student from our German class walks in and looks around confused. "Excuse me I am in the middle of a class" the teacher announces. So we all sulkingly skunk out of the room. Except when I look at my watch I realise they have gone a good 7 or 8 minutes over, which means we were only 2 or 3 minutes early! Which technichally means she was the one who went over not us! Turns out it was the French class so no wonder. So that was my story of the week. Also History is the best class thus far. You have a lecture on day one of the week and at the begining of day two and for the rest of day two we discuss the reading we were supposed to do. So far the most confusing award goes to German, understandably, as it is a new language and therefore has proper reasoning to make little sense. No worries its not as bad as French in the whole conjugating verbs and noouns department. Just trying to understanding what is being said is hard. Reading i`m good, but listening? I almost put God there instead of good, which would have been really funny because it would have given a completely new meaning to the sentence. Oh me.

The most sleepy award goes to Art History. Love the info mostly and the teacher, but it is just one of those classes. There is one in every semester of every year of school you are in, at least its not Grade 9 or 10 science again. I love reading the textbook and making notes, so I am going to develop that aspect of myself. My text book reading, note taking skills are powering up! So the most frustrating award goes to Film. It is a really interesting course and the prof has some really good ideas, but he`s one of those ones who likes his own voice a lot if you know what I mean. He`s a nice guy, but it takes him a while to get to the point. He is also the Drama teacher so he likes to perform so to speak. Not to mention the class starts when the pub opens and ends half an hour before it closes. Also our class room is right above the pub so we can hear them for most of the time. The first two hours I find are pretty interesting but the last hour I find I am usually very atnsy. I`m not sleepy, I just can sit anymore. I am usually good at sitting for long periods, but I guess in this case I fail in that department.

And finally the most intimidating award and second place for most confusing goes to English. Hee. I love English but we started off with the Battle of Maldon (poem), which is interesting and easy enough to understand, but it is fairly over-whelming and dry I find. The teacher did a good job of making it more interesting by adding some history to it. It seems like the whole class is very opinionated on...everything. They are also more deep than I will ever reach, which is honestly fine by me. They found so many subtexts in the poem and so many reasons behind things and symbols and plots and history. I was just really happy I was able to interpret it! Next is the Canterbury tales, which I find exciting! Now that stuff I think I will have a fermer grasp on and have more of an opinion.

So I hope you have found all this exciting, I am going to London tomorow for Art History to the British Museum. Ha, this should be an adventure as I have no clue what group I am in. I am presuming group one as it has the same time on the list that the prof mentioned to us to meet her, but we`ll see. So one last thing. The other day I went to study, but I couldnt figure out where I wanted to go. So I went out on this huge rolling hill and laid out my stuff to study. It was the perfect setting as all you could hear was the wind and I had all my study supplies as well as a plastic bag to protect my things if it rained, it was perfect and beautiful. Only thing was that it took a good half hour to find a perfect spot as the hill aparently is visited once and awhile with moos (cows). In other words I was tring to avoid their dried up poo. Any way that is unimportant. I will keep you all informed and hopefully have a visual tour for you of my new residence some time next week.