Ahhhh- this week is finals and its been crazy. Last week was crazy as well. So much to do- so little time. I will be happy when this week is over, because I will have turned in possibly the biggest project I have done in my college career- the environmental history of Augsburg college. Written in my class consisting of nine people. We split the paper into four sections, I researched information on Augsburg's physical plant as the spatial manifestation of social hierarchies. It has been a really good experience- Ive learned alot but its been so time consuming. If I put as much work I did into this project into my other classes I would have no problem getting straight 4.0's But sometimes you just gotta pick and choose. Balancing all the opportunities college presents is truely an art. I like to think I do a good job but getting three hours of sleep a night makes me think twice!

this weekend was tiring! I worked alot at the coffee shop and Saturday I had my orientation for study abroad. It was exciting to talk about it and talk to others who are gonna be gone next semester as well. Now I don't want to do any homework, I'm ready for next semester- I'm just that excited.

This week was full of end of semester stuff. On monday, the political science and history department had their Christmas party, good times. Velkomen was on Friday, one of my favorite Augsburg traditions where everyone dresses is traditional Norweigan dress, even the President of the college and his family had Norweigan sweaters on. At chapel we sing Christmas songs, some of them sang in Scandinavian. Then we went over to Christenson and ate a ton of food. They had traditional Scandinavian food like goat cheese, fruit tarts, and raspberry rice pudding, absolutely delicious food. I ate with some graduates from 1947, and had the chance to talk to them about college. It quite enjoyable! Then Vespers was on Friday evening and saturday, and as usual Vespers was really good. Last week was a good week!

No me gusta espanol. I really wish I would of taken my language classes my first year of college. My optimism got the best of me, thinking I could take french and then take spanish my junior year. Now I know the basics of both, but can not speak eigther vary well. Which will not be helpful next semester when I am studying abroad in Central america. My spanish class right now is a little challenging, luckily I live with someone who speaks spanish fluently. And she gets the privilege of helping me in my quest to learn spanish.. its more like I am really lucky she helps me or theres no telling how I would be doing. Just figuring out the reason for changing one word can make everything way more comprehendible.
Anyways, right now the plan is to study alot over winter break, and then hopefullly get the language down studying there. From what I hear, people are able to speak the language really well after they are done studying abroad. Which is good because my goal is to be fluent in spanish eventually in my life. When I went to Mexico, which was only for a week, I improved a great deal in my spanish. However at that point my spanish was basically non existant. So thats encouraging. I guess in a couple months we'll see, who knows, maybe I'll be writing this blog in spanish!