Take These Words! - Caitlin

Phew!
I know, I know, I didn't tell you guys everything right away!

But I feel like everything has been going by so fast and so much stuff has been crammed into each day! I mean whoa. It's September 12th. How did that happen?! Alright, where to start? Well, first of all I love my apartment. It is beautiful and spacious. I love (most of) the people I live with and I'm surpised at how much we've bonded in the little time we've been here. (Even though it's felt like weeks on end.) We do all kinds of fun and crazy (yet completely sober! yay!) things and I love it because they are so weird, just like you guys so I don't miss home as much. We've had some "family" dinners and they have been awesome. I love being able to cook and bake. It makes me feel a lot more at home. Oh, I think that you guys should tell me your favorite baked good. I have fun baking and it calms me from the stresses of college life! =]

Now on to classes, I'm actually really liking my classes. It makes all he world of difference when you can choose your classes and you don't have those silly freshmen requirements! I'm taking a completely awesome science class, science majors look away as I explain. Everyone says it's fake science. I semi-agree, but I love it. On Mondays we have lecture, on Wednesdays we have lab - in the community garden, where we pull weeds, plant veggies (we haven't gotten there yet, but we will this week I believe) and then on Fridays we go on field trips! This past Friday we went to a local farm and we got to take home some fresh veggies. I got some bell peppers, banana peppers, and a sweet potato! Yummy. I can't wait for the rest of the semester. Oh, and the best part about it is that it's only half a semester!

I also have my Honduras Prep class, which is already interesting. I really like one of the professors going on the trip, she's really funny. Plus the readings that we have are really interesting. And I'm so excited about the work that we will be doing while we're down there.

Then is Educational Psychology, which is not what I anticipated, but that's okay. I thought that it would be mostly a psych class since I'm taking it for my Psychology minor and it's one of the ones I have to take. But apparently it's in the Education field. So I'm basically learning how to teach now guys!

On Tuesday and Thursday I have my Intro to Digital Photography class, which so far has been three hour long lectures about everything I already learned in high school photography. I want to fall asleep everyday. But luckily we've begun our first project so hopefully that will make it bearable. I also have my Human Services class, which is Counseling Individuals and Families, so in addition to learning to be a teacher, I'm also learning how to be a counselor! Yay! It's a little stressful because I feel put on the spot a lot; we do mock counseling sessions and we've already done two five-minute sessions in one class and six five-minutes sessions in another. It's interesting though, because even though I don't want to be a teacher at the level they are teaching us about or a counselor, they are both close to home and should be useful anyways.

Well, that's all I can think of for now, and I'm pretty sure that's a ton of information because I've been rambling for like half an hour. Probably more cause I've been distracted a bunch too. I hope you guys are having fun and I hope to hear from you all soon!