This and That

Hello!! Hope you've had a wonderful week... I sure had a busy one...

Monday was pretty stressful, at least the beginning was. I had gotten kicked out of my German 310 blackboard quiz, so I had to go ask Professor Lund to unblock it for me. I realized I would still have to take it before 12 (that’s when it was due), that I had forgotten my books at the apartment (it’s an open book quiz) and that I’d have to redo the whole thing without help. I didn’t get a very good score because I spelled a few terms wrong, but my memory served me pretty well. Quickly I finished my remaining two errands: dropping by Professor Schultheiss’s office (she wasn’t there) and taking a current report card to the foreign language office.

Dance class was as fun as ever… we learned another fun step, and I wanted to practice it after school in the lab. Sadly the labs hadn’t started yet so I couldn’t. My first voice lesson went well, and I have several pieces to choose from to work on this semester. I’m singing in church in two weeks as well, so I have to find one pretty soon.

After dinner Jen, Tanner, Angela, Stephanie and I all piled into Jen’s VW bug to go to FHE at the stake center. Each member of the stake presidency spoke, and as the talks progressed they focused more and more on the importance of being social and dating for fun so you could eventually get married. Tanner and I laughed about it afterwards, and then he asked me out. How ironic, right?

Tuesday there was a bunch of yellow flowers in front of our door without a note. They could have been for someone else in the apartment, but I think Jonathan put them there for me. He’s the only one I could see doing something like that. They did make me smile. In the evening I hitched a ride w/ Jen who was going to study on campus and went to the social dance club. It was really good to go through all the steps again slowly, but guys were scarce and I didn’t get to practice as much as I would have liked.

Wednesday I had the most intense dance class of my life. It was a lot of fun, but I was literally dripping with sweat when we were done and I felt disgusting. There was nothing I could do about it though, because I had classes from 11 (dance) – 2 without a break (this is the case every Mon, Wed and Fri). In 320 we worked on our stupid pre-assessment test. It does have a purpose I suppose… it should help the teacher figure out what areas we need to focus on the most, but I’ve never learned all of the terminology for German grammar, so I couldn’t really answer the questions properly. I want to actually start learning the terminology instead of trying to figure out where everyone is. That evening I went to see a German film “Nirgendwo in Afrika,” but I didn’t really like it.

This is getting to long… I’ll skip to Friday. After classes I went to the library and held 2 review sessions for German 330 (their first test is tomorrow). My German was good, and I felt like I presented the material in an understandable way. I had just enough time to get ready before Tanner arrived. We drove into the canyon which was gorgeous, had a lovely picnic near bridal veil falls, then watched “Life is Beautiful” in the open air theater there. It was an excellent Italian film, one that made me want to laugh and cry all at the same time.

Saturday was full of homework… I think I’ve got almost all my homework done till Wednesday, which is good because I’ll need extra time to grade tests this week…

Love and miss you!

Margaret