Sorry it has taken me so long to post! I wanted to make one more post about my crazy week before I left for Paris, but like I said, it was a crazy week! Let me try to go back and recap.
Last week was rough. Really rough. The first full week of classes was definitely an adjustment for me. I haven't been in a classroom in almost 8 months. So the whole idea of homework, studying, and reading was a bit foreign. Tuesday, after walking 2 miles in the rain to class, Sara and I found out it was cancelled. GREAT. Apparently our professor is from Germany and he comes in every Tuesday. If there are complications or delays with his flight he just cancels class. So, we decided it would be a good time to figure out what all we had to do for our online class. Seeing as we didn't have a classroom to go to or a teacher to ask, we figured we should start the process sooner rather than later. Good thing too because we ran into hours (and I mean hours) of complications with our schedule. Oh well. We finally got it all figured out.
My online class, Business Ethics, has 2 assignments per week. One discussion board about a different topic each week and one paper per week. Both assignments have to be completed on Sunday at midnight (CST). I have class live chats with my teacher twice a week. Unfortunately they are at 7pm CST, which is 1am GMT... not sure how many of those chats I will make. Since our assignments are due every Sunday, and we are traveling on the weekends, we basically need to have everything finished by Thursday. So, that is part of why my week was so crazy. I had to read 4 chapters in a textbook and write a paper (among many other things) before leaving for Paris.
We went on a Old Pubs of London Walking Tour on Tuesday night. It was a lot of fun. Very cool, old, hidden places with lots of history! My blisters were getting worse by the minute (gross right? and this isn't even the worst blister). I had to stop multiple times to buy more "plasters" (band-aids) because I was just bleeding through them all. Not fun. At all. So much for thinking I was smart by bringing flats.
Wednesday I had my second Event design class. There are all Americans in my class. 6 are from California and then 4, including me, are from Cincinnati. My teacher Jordi is from Spain, and seems like he is going to teach us a lot. Our homework was to go to the London Design Museum and go through 2 different exhibitions. One was about the history of design in London, and the other was by Javier Mariscal's Life
Drawings. Both very interesting and very different. I started forming more blisters on this trip to the museum. It doesn't matter what shoes I wear. I just can't win!
Thursday comes along and I have my first Perspective Sketch and Rendering class (since the first one was cancelled). Wow. It was not what we expected or what the course description had said. It was very elementary... and pretty much everything we had already learned (in three different classes in fact). We got the syllabus and schedule, and Sara and I both thought that we wouldn't really be learning anything new. So we decided to drop the class. That opened up entirely new can of worms. We were leaving for Paris in the morning, had to get approval from our advisor at UC, get all these forms signed, and turned back in.... What a headache! We ended up picking up another business class that runs in an accelerated 5 weeks. Luckily, it doesn't start until my last 5 weeks. One less thing to worry about for now.
Next, I started planning out Paris trip. Yes, just hours before we left. Trying located recommended places to go and eat and where we were staying because I knew I wouldn't have access to a computer while we were there. Speaking of computers.. I went to upload my pictures from the week, and my computer won't save a thing. So I will have to make a trip to the Apple Store when I get back from Paris. Just what I needed. Nothing is ever easy here...
I couldn't worry about my computer at that point though. I was leaving in about 4 hours! I threw some things in a backpack, loaded my purse up with homework and reading material, and I tried to get a few hours of sleep. That didn't go very well. I was way too excited (and the party going on above me didn't help). Next thing I know my alarm was going off at 3:30am. We got to the airport, checked-in, and were off to Paris! So exciting. I will make a post about my Paris trip as SOON as I can get my pictures working...
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