Midterms is finally coming to an end! I had many papers to write this week, and too many meetings, but atlas it is midterm break after today! I think the midterm most challenging was for my watercolor class- we had 2 ish hours to paint our midterm painting! We could choose any subject, and I chose to paint some fall leaves. Augsburg is beautiful in the fall! The trees by the library have the most beautiful leaves!
Today I will be working on my thesis then going to my history class to discuss history in movies- interesting topic
and then I get to go home!!

I had my first midterm of the semester on Friday. It was my spanish midterm- The day before was my bestfriend's birthday, also my roomate. So after 8 hours of classes, a bunch of us went out to eat to celebrate her birthday. We went to the Chatterbox cafe, which is a really cool restaurant where you can play board games while you wait for your food. While playing Candyland, we were inspired for our Halloween costumes- different characters from the Candyland game. I'm going to be the Lollipop princess!
So I ended up spending the night in the study lounge studying my spanish. I stayed up till 4 in the morning studying for spanish, then woke up early to study once again. It was nice though, I was the only one in the lounge, so I got alot of work done. I was pretty confident and think I did pretty well on the test which is always a good thing.
This weekend I worked at the coffee shop on campus alot. Weekend College had classes, so the coffee shop is open on saturdays. Then I did alot of homework-
I spent over seven hours in the library today working on research for my thesis!
and tommorrow I will spend another seven!!

This past week was homecoming! The school has been decorated in maroon and sliver ballons and awnings all over campus. In the midst of all this Auggie spirit, I realized this is my last homecoming here, ahhhhh. They had alot of cool events this year, the theme being 'Auggie Adventure'. Monday was the pep rally. All the people nominated for homecoming court did skits, and then they named the winners. My roomate's boyfriend is the Homecoming King this year!! It was really fun- his skit was hillarious!
I also helped put on a coffee mug decorating event. We gave away free to-go coffee mugs and set up a table with a ton of crafts that people could decorate their mugs with. It was really fun- people loved it. Yesterday there was a picnic out in the central park, and the football game- also a fun day.

This week has gone by so fast. Between writing articles for our school's newspaper and writing papers the past couple days flew by. My spanish class is getting more and more difficult, I really like my teacher though. This week we are doing presentations on different countries. I am presenting on revolutionary music in Nicaragua. Which is gonna be awsome! I found some cool clips on Utube and I'm gonna talk about the significance of revolutionary music to the people of Nicaragua. I am actually in the process of putting this into a powerpoint right now!!

At last it is the weekend! Procrastination has gotten the best of me.. monday I painted for 7 hours straight because I put off doing my homework for watercolor all week. I love to paint but wow- then wednesday I stayed up late writing a paper for my seminar class. I must admitt I had enough time to write it, I just kept getting side tracked while researching. Which isn't hard to do when your researching an interesting topic.
I also really like my watercolor painting class. We often paint 'on location' so hardly in the classroom. We have painted in the quad, a couple of times by the library, and the other day we went down to the mississippi river to paint. It was goreous!! The leaves for fall are turning and it was a beautiful sunny day. This is my first actual art class, although I have painted for a while now.
In my seminar class on Thursday we had class outside as well, which was cool. When I think of a college campus, I picture students outside in the quad lost in dialogue. what a beautiful thing..

This past weekend was crazy busy. I worked friday night, and then some friends and I went salsa dancing which was really fun. I woke up at the crack of dawn Saturday to help out with the DFL caucus that was taking place at Augsburg. The student organization I'm part of, coalition for student activism, was helping sponsor the event so I helped organize things. It was a full day of speakers and discussions. Then in the afternoon some of my friends I studied abroad with that go to Gustavus and St.Olaf came up to the cities and we all hung out. We went to the Augsburg volleyball game, which was fun- and we won! I know the girls on the team because I played on the team up until my junior year. Sunday I helped out at the Caucus again, then did homework. All in all I hardly got any homework done but it was a really fun weekend!