So I started this blog thinking that I would chronicle all of my adventures. I wanted to believe that I would lead an interesting life in this amazing city, but every time I sit down to post something, I feel at a loss. I've been out of the country for three weeks, and in the Netherlands for two and a half weeks. On the one hand, I've been really busy adjusting and settling down that I feel like I've been here for much longer. On the other hand, I haven't really done much of anything to feel accomplished about. I have developed the habit of cooking dinner with other people, which for me is really relaxing and comforting. I enjoy cooking, so I like that we go from building to building nearly every night and cook for each other.
I think that I spent this afternoon buying books and planning homework time is a shock to my system. It will be good to get into the actual studying part of study abroad. It does seem like everything that I heard about the work being all at the end of the semester does not hold true for my classes. I have pretty short final papers (10-15 pages), but I have a lot of stuff each week like turning in a weekly analysis of the readings and stuff. It shouldn't be too bad, especially because my classes have all been really interesting so far. I'm taking:
Beginning Dutch
Moving Manhood: Me, masculinity and sexual citizenship from cross-cultural perspectives
Emotion and Mental Health across culture
Ethnic Diversity and Popular Culture.
The class that I'm pretty sure I'm dropping is Representing Identity in film and literature in Latin America. I'm only dropping that class because it hasn't met yet and I can't decide which of the classes that have met I would want to drop.
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