Erin's New Adventures: Weeks and weeks and weekends of college!

Hey all. Sorry I haven't been blogging much this week, when I started school last Wednesday I didn't realize that I had also signed over my life to the homework/life responsibilities devil. But I did, anddd as of now it seems as though we will have a special relationship for awhile. Yayyy!

But on that note, I STARTED COLLEGE! Ahhh! There aren't really many words to describe that except for crazy! Anyway, as you probably know, I have three classes; but last Wednesday I only had two, Humanities 150 and German 115. As of right now, I have a feeling that Humanities is going to be one of the most difficult experiences of my life. So far we have read passages by Aristotle, Plato ("Allegory of the Cave"), Confucius ("The Analects"), and Cicero, and each day we are told to analyze our reading with pretty in-depth questions. Yeah, guess what we had to do this weekend? Analyze...all of them together! And if you didn't catch on, they are NOT easy readings. I literally spent six hours on them today...it was pretty fun, if I do say so myself...ha? Anyway, I promise I will not make you endure ten weeks of me complaining over Humanities, I mean the class isn't all bad. I have a couple of friends in it, and the teacher really isn't a bad guy. We have four major papers that we will have to do over the term, each on a different topic. 1. Higher Education: Its Varieties, Its Promises, and Its Consequences. 2. Ethics: the Competing Principles as They Relate to Personal and Public Good. 3. Modes and Motives of Leadership and Its Effects upon the Common Good. 4. Competing Notions about the Eros of Beauty: Ways of Adjusting Artistic Preferences. If your brain didn't just fry reading that, then you should write these essays for me.

German on the other hand, was SO MUCH FUN. I am seriously so excited to continue learning the language and then, with any luck, study abroad with it. So far I've learned how to count to a billion (easier than it sounds), the alphabet, my name is..., i am from..., greetings, goodbyes, who, what, where, yeah you get the point. Also, the professor is fantasticccc! She is so funny and really really cute, and, what impresses me the most, is that she puts up with the creepy old guy who decided to come to college and take a class with a bunch of teenagers. That would honestly freak me out to have someone in class the same age as (or close to) me, but again that's just me. The way the system works here is that I'll be continuing German throughout the entire year, as a part of my minor (oh yeah! There's a story behind that...hold on), next quarter will be 125, then 135 in the spring. SO EXCITED. Ich liebe Deutsch! Anthropological Perspective I had on Thursday, and only have twice per week. It was pretty interesting, and the professor was pretty great. She seemed as though she's genuinely going to care about us this term, so that's a start. To be honest I thought that that class was going to be about the history of humanity for the most part, but it's actually not at all. It's more on like the human mind and behaviors and such. Oh and there's a lot on Native American culture..exhibit A my weekend reading.

This weekend was pretty exciting as well..I would say it lived up to a college girl's first weekend away's standards. On Friday after class got out I went to IKEA in Auburn with Arielle, Nyakuiy, Arielle's sister Allysa (a senior at SPU), and Allysa's roommate Julia. I only have one word to describe that place: HUGE. I literally felt like I had just walked for 5 miles after that shopping trip. But I can say now that I think that our dorm room will be set on supplies for the next 15 years. Later that night SU Residence Hall Life played a movie out on the Union Green (big lawn) on the big screen; Toy Story 3, which I thought was actually super appropriate seeming how we all just went off to college and yeah that movie can help us to reflect upon our childhoods! In all actuality though it's kind of a child's horror movie, so if you have a kid under the age of six I would strongly recommend against seeing it........On SATURDAY (I'm almost done I promise), Serve Seattle, and then 80'S DANCE! Serve Seattle was basically this huuuuge community service project that the school put together for the students. We went out to Greenpeace park outside of Seattle and saved the forest from invasive plants for six hours! Yay! No, really, it was pretty fun. First of all, they fed us Pita Pit, and second of all, finding about 16 handfuls of giant grossly disgusting spiders and then having three times that many girls squeal, including myself, (dfksbdsugbv) was kind of entertaining.

Okay, I think the 80's dance needs it's own paragraph. First of all,

Anddddd second of all,

Nichole and I

Kind of a bad picture of me, but whatever. This dance was seriously the most fun dance I have ever been to in my entire life. Aside from re-realizing my intense love for 80's music, we got to dress up!! Beforehand I got together with about eight of my floormates and really went all out, Madonna music and all. The latter picture above was the aftermath of three hours of dancing, the before was a little more flattering. Anyway, here are some more pictures for your entertainment...