Hello Everyone!
We've just finished up with the second week of fall classes, and things have changed a lot from last fall. I've been given first years again, with some additional responsibility. The tutors are quite literally taking over teaching one section of the first years. Fear me students! Seriously though, its quite exciting for the department to put things right into our hands, and then trusting the tutors to just run with it. Not to mention that this is going to look fabulous on my resume! So not only do I have first years, I've also been helping out with the Drama course and the Asian Voices course, which is turning out to be wonderful. There are a large amount of second years, who were my first years, so now I won't let them get away with not talking, which has been successful so far. They trust me a lot more than they did at this point in time last fall, and I love seeing them grow and change as people. Once again, I'm getting to feel pretty much like a mother hen.
In addition to all these lovely developments at the university, I've been able to find some wonderful outside classes for myself, mainly a yoga studio 20 minutes away, and bellydance classes with my friend Heidi. The new yoga classes have my muscles aching, but the shaking and giggles in the bellydance class even things out. My hostel bought me an oven, so I have been baking up a storm, and I managed to make burritos with Erin the other night, due to our successful search for taco seasoning. All in all, its been a fantastic two weeks!
