Readjustments
I. miss. France.
Not necessarily everything, but the lifestyle, the comparatively relaxed atmosphere...and of course, good bread.
I've been back wow, only five weeks or so. I was at home for three weeks or so, settling back in, reading a lot, relaxing before grad school started. Alan came to Ohio for a few days--we discovered a frisbee golf course in Canton, sweet! Rose and Steve arrived a few days later; we hit the Dusty Armadillo for some country line dancing. Steve took off the next morning, and as soon as Lauren and I signed the lease for our new apartment, Rose, Alan, and I took off for DC! We arrived late evening, had dinner, and then pressed on, next stop the Outer Banks. We had an adventure en route when a deer decided to jump out in front of us. Uncool. 2am and we're there on the side of the road. But the deputy got us back on our way, and we made it to the beach house.
Subsequent days filled with sun, sand, water, and generally relaxing. We rented a waverunner--whoa cool. Rose and I biked into town one day, a nice excursion.
Rose's train to New York was on Friday, so we headed back to DC on Thursday. Saw the sights on Friday morning--presidential memorials--and then dropped Rose off at the Amtrak station. Alan and I hung around DC for another day, then I flew home on Sunday. Moved into the new apartment.
Monday, grad school started. They didn't lie about it being intensive. One week is down, the workload has been constant and just doable. Having classes that meet everyday, you don't have the option of leaving the reading for tomorrow so you can finish your paper. There have been a couple late nights already.
But it will get easier, things always take a few weeks to get used to. My classmates are nice, and we're all in the same boat. The information itself is generally interesting. I guess when you're cramming years of knowledge into 11 months, there's no time for the real fluffy stuff. So far, it's mostly psychological theory and educational principles. One class meets only on Tuesdays and seems very practical--learning how to use video editing software, how to find scholarly resources for our papers, etc.
OK, this post is a huge procrastination effort on my part, and if I could write this much about multiple intelligence theory, I'd be a third of the way done with my paper by now. Off to work...
Not necessarily everything, but the lifestyle, the comparatively relaxed atmosphere...and of course, good bread.
I've been back wow, only five weeks or so. I was at home for three weeks or so, settling back in, reading a lot, relaxing before grad school started. Alan came to Ohio for a few days--we discovered a frisbee golf course in Canton, sweet! Rose and Steve arrived a few days later; we hit the Dusty Armadillo for some country line dancing. Steve took off the next morning, and as soon as Lauren and I signed the lease for our new apartment, Rose, Alan, and I took off for DC! We arrived late evening, had dinner, and then pressed on, next stop the Outer Banks. We had an adventure en route when a deer decided to jump out in front of us. Uncool. 2am and we're there on the side of the road. But the deputy got us back on our way, and we made it to the beach house.
Subsequent days filled with sun, sand, water, and generally relaxing. We rented a waverunner--whoa cool. Rose and I biked into town one day, a nice excursion.
Rose's train to New York was on Friday, so we headed back to DC on Thursday. Saw the sights on Friday morning--presidential memorials--and then dropped Rose off at the Amtrak station. Alan and I hung around DC for another day, then I flew home on Sunday. Moved into the new apartment.
Monday, grad school started. They didn't lie about it being intensive. One week is down, the workload has been constant and just doable. Having classes that meet everyday, you don't have the option of leaving the reading for tomorrow so you can finish your paper. There have been a couple late nights already.
But it will get easier, things always take a few weeks to get used to. My classmates are nice, and we're all in the same boat. The information itself is generally interesting. I guess when you're cramming years of knowledge into 11 months, there's no time for the real fluffy stuff. So far, it's mostly psychological theory and educational principles. One class meets only on Tuesdays and seems very practical--learning how to use video editing software, how to find scholarly resources for our papers, etc.
OK, this post is a huge procrastination effort on my part, and if I could write this much about multiple intelligence theory, I'd be a third of the way done with my paper by now. Off to work...
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