Showing posts with label Study Abroad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Study Abroad. Show all posts

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Antwerpen

My friend from PAC is in Belgium this semester studying abroad. And she's been in Antwerp the past week or so. She put up some photos on facebook.



This is Janice with the Antwerp hand.



And this photo just made me homesick! Ahh, I can't wait to go back to that place. (Yes, I'm implying that I totally hope to see that place again... at some point...)

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Boggles My Mind

I have this slideshow on my computer that filters through my photos... or the few photos I've chosen to put on this new computer. And I just can't help but be amazed at how ridiculously lucky I am.

It never ceases to amaze me, the wonderful works that we humans can do.






























God's creations amaze me even more. If I had all of my pictures this would be better, but we all know what's in this world.








































And it boggles my mind even more that I get to be a part of it!
































Thursday, June 4, 2009

First Day

First day of school. Again. My second first day this semester. Weird how that works....

I only actually had one class today. Religion. And my Humanities of Islam class is tomorrow. Those in addition to my online Music Theory class are my only classes this block so I'm expecting/hoping it will be a breeze. The only real difficult one will be Humanities of Islam. But I already know the teacher (he went with us to Europe) so that helps a bit, I hope.

Actually, funny story about him. The first time I ever actually spoke to him on a personal level we were in a museum in London. I was with Sarah at the time and the two of us had just walked into the museum with a small group of students as well as the teachers. I had been telling Sarah a few minutes earlier how I was worried about taking pictures because I thought (at that point in the trip) that I'd only have one gig of camera space so I had to be super careful about what I took pictures of.

So we're in the museum and I saw something I just had to have a picture of. So I pulled out my camera and Sarah turned to me and said, "You can't take pictures!" I told her, no it's okay. I can. I really wanted this and I'd delete another. As I was trying to explain while taking the picture at the same time Sarah continued telling me, "No. Dianna, really, you can't take pictures... seriously." We were "arguing" in a way not upset or anything but more bantering a little because I was trying to explain to her it would be okay, I could just delete it. As I went to take the picture, the teacher came up behind me, grabbed my camera and said, "She's right. You're not allowed to take pictures in here. Put it away."

So. Totally. Embarrassed.

I felt horrible for "arguing" with her and going to do it anyway while the teacher watched the whole thing. I was clearly the idiot, as is usual. Haha. I went back to her later and apologized, explaining that I didn't understand and we both laughed about it. Unfortunately the teacher probably just got the impression that I'm a terribly rebellious kid. And that's my excuse if I end up failing his class. Haha. No, actually he seems really nice so I'm not too worried.

My other teacher I had for religion last semester so I already knew he was an excellent teacher. He's really funny and extremely smart. Excellent teacher, but his class is going to require almost three hours of reading a week. Yuck!

All in all I'm pretty darn excited for this semester! I'm excited for classes and seeing what it's like to take block classes--finding out whether they really are as hard as most say they are. I also am going to try to keep going to the gym as much as I can. Today, instead of just running, I decided to do a mile on the elliptical, a mile running, and then a mile on the bike. I'm not sure if that worked better or not than my usual running 2-4 miles. The elliptical always makes my butt sore, though. We'll see.

I love my life!

Monday, June 1, 2009

Announcement

I'm DONE! DONE with all those stupid papers!!!




Well, actually to be honest I'm at that point where I can call myself done but technically should go back through them all one last time to be sure they're all "turn-in worthy."




But that hopefully won't take super long and then I'll be DONE! Two days early!!!!!!! Know what that means?






I have NOTHING to do for the next two days!



AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! I'm so excited to be DONE!!!!!