Well, as you can tell, it has been quite a while since I made a post, and I am very sorry about that, but now I am feeling much more settled into school, and classes have just started their third week. Classes and classwork are VERY different from in America. There are no assignments, no quizzes, and not even many exams. There is one exam at the end, and for some classes an essay. My geology class, in fact, has only one 3000 word essay as the only assessment, not even an exam! The only regular "assignments" are suggested readings for you to do. Seriously, that is it! It is crazy how much free time they have here. Students normally go out 2-3 nights during the week! And Saturday night is a night when almost everyone stays in and has quiet nights, very backwards! This is partly because of all the free time, and also partly because on the weekends it is very expensive to go out, while it is cheaper during the week.
Classes are going fine, fairly boring, but at times they are interesting. And it will be interesting to see how the learning goes when I don't have regular assignments and quizzes to help me know how well I am learning the material.
People on my floor are very nice, and there are always people sitting out in the living room-ish area we have on our floor.
The food in the dorms is pretty terrible. There is always some greasy meat thing, some fried potato variety, some overcook vegetables, and some dessert. Oh well, it could be worse. The weather is also pretty bad. It gets quite windy and cold, with gross drizzle/rainish stuff quite a lot. But it is actually a little better than I was expecting, and I would much rather be in this weather than the cold Iowa is going through right now!!
That is mostly it for updates from the first two weeks, this Sunday Cara and I are going to go to London for the Chinese New Year. Apparently they have quite a big celebration there. We have also started planning our 5 week spring break out, so that is pretty exciting to be looking into all the places we are going to go visit.
I think that is it for now, I will write a new blog after the Chinese New Year celebration. I hope everyone has a great week, and I love you all!
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Hi Jesse! I can't believe you ate potatoes! Miss you. Good luck studying. Love you!
Kelsey
P.S. We're having a huge snow storm right now.
Sounds like fun. I am ready for school to start here, but it doesn't start until the 20th. Have a good Chinese New Year, I sure am!
Chinese New Year? I thought you were in Europe... ;)
Jesse! You need to blog more often! Love you!
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