Saturday, April 28, 2007
Friday, April 27, 2007
Foam party
I am a little crazy with a paper I have to write for my Honors class. In my opinion it is very long, the vocabulary is very specific and sometimes I don't know how to express my ideas. But don't panic, I have already write eight pages. I can do it!! Last week I gave a draft of the project to my professor and he said it was excellent!
Yesterday I was in the library most of the afternoon and then I decided to go to the Foam party for one hour or something.
So I met with some friends in Olmsted and we went to the terrace. There were a lot of people, but most of my friends didn't go inside because they didn't want to be wet.
I was there for about an hour, then I went back to my dorm, Carpenter. I took a shower and I went back to the library until 1 a.m. Productive day!
Yesterday I was in the library most of the afternoon and then I decided to go to the Foam party for one hour or something.
So I met with some friends in Olmsted and we went to the terrace. There were a lot of people, but most of my friends didn't go inside because they didn't want to be wet.
I was there for about an hour, then I went back to my dorm, Carpenter. I took a shower and I went back to the library until 1 a.m. Productive day!
The foam party
With Fiona and Angel
My feet and legs after the party
Thursday, April 26, 2007
Just 18 days!!
In just 18 I am leaving to China and in less days the semester is over. I cannot believe it. This year was so fast!
Next week is the last one with classes, I have to talk with my students of Spanish about the final exam, finish some final papers and go to some classes.
The last week is the finals week, but I think that this year I don't have any exam to study. For all of my classes I have to do long projects, or the papers where due during all the semester. I really prefer this system, because I don't like study just for a final exam. I prefer study the concept and the put them in practice. So, yes, the decision about the classes I took this semester was good.
This week the campus is pretty, there are a lot of tulips, which is probably my favorite flower after daisies. They told me to go to Pella next weekend because there is a festival and there are a lot of tulips.
On Wednesday, we made a surprise birthday party at Mars Cafe. It was Miryam's birthday. We didn't expect so many people, but the birthday cake was big enough and all of us could taste it.
Next week is the last one with classes, I have to talk with my students of Spanish about the final exam, finish some final papers and go to some classes.
The last week is the finals week, but I think that this year I don't have any exam to study. For all of my classes I have to do long projects, or the papers where due during all the semester. I really prefer this system, because I don't like study just for a final exam. I prefer study the concept and the put them in practice. So, yes, the decision about the classes I took this semester was good.
This week the campus is pretty, there are a lot of tulips, which is probably my favorite flower after daisies. They told me to go to Pella next weekend because there is a festival and there are a lot of tulips.
On Wednesday, we made a surprise birthday party at Mars Cafe. It was Miryam's birthday. We didn't expect so many people, but the birthday cake was big enough and all of us could taste it.
Birthday cake
At Mars Cafe with Miryam
Monday, April 23, 2007
Good news
In the last post, I wrote that I have had more news to tell you. The most important one is that I have been accepted to do a course during summer.
I applied to some programs and I was accepted to do one in Wales and another in China. Finally I decided to take the China one. So after my trip with Drake University, I will stay there for another nine weeks.
Now, I don't want to complain but I have so many things to decide and look at that it is going to be hard to do everything. And the finals week is arriving.
So, I have decided to make two lists with the things I have to do and the information I have to look at depending of the program: health insurance, money, passport & visa, baggage, clothes, laptop, hospitals, weather conditions, Chinese dictionary, information about the places, batteries for the camera, vaccines, flight tickets to come back to Des Moines in August, tickets to go back to Spain, etc.
I am sure that I am forgetting things. Ok, I am a world traveler since five years ago and I have lived a lot of difficult situations with people like lost baggage when I arrived here, my camera was stolen in Rome, my phone was stolen in Madrid, a friend fell down in a street in Greece and went to hospital for two months, a person threw her baggage to the trash without taking her flight tickets in Athens, etc.
But this situation is different. It is Asia. I have never been there before and I do not know Chinese at all. I am nervous, happy, but above all excited.
I applied to some programs and I was accepted to do one in Wales and another in China. Finally I decided to take the China one. So after my trip with Drake University, I will stay there for another nine weeks.
Now, I don't want to complain but I have so many things to decide and look at that it is going to be hard to do everything. And the finals week is arriving.
So, I have decided to make two lists with the things I have to do and the information I have to look at depending of the program: health insurance, money, passport & visa, baggage, clothes, laptop, hospitals, weather conditions, Chinese dictionary, information about the places, batteries for the camera, vaccines, flight tickets to come back to Des Moines in August, tickets to go back to Spain, etc.
I am sure that I am forgetting things. Ok, I am a world traveler since five years ago and I have lived a lot of difficult situations with people like lost baggage when I arrived here, my camera was stolen in Rome, my phone was stolen in Madrid, a friend fell down in a street in Greece and went to hospital for two months, a person threw her baggage to the trash without taking her flight tickets in Athens, etc.
But this situation is different. It is Asia. I have never been there before and I do not know Chinese at all. I am nervous, happy, but above all excited.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Busy weekend
The weekend started on Friday and since that I didn't stop. Relays week is full of activities and things going on. I want to go to all of them, but some times is hard.
On Friday I went bowling with some of my floor friends and some people from Crawford Hall. From my floor we were only four, but we had a good time together. We play two games and I won one of them.
On Saturday I went to see a tennis game. I like tennis and one of the players at Drake tennis team is from Spain and he plays really well. I was just there for the double game and I saw the beginning of the single game and I went to street painting.
With my RA
Sergi and his friend while playing
On Friday I went bowling with some of my floor friends and some people from Crawford Hall. From my floor we were only four, but we had a good time together. We play two games and I won one of them.
On Saturday I went to see a tennis game. I like tennis and one of the players at Drake tennis team is from Spain and he plays really well. I was just there for the double game and I saw the beginning of the single game and I went to street painting.
Duhita, Meagan, me and Prudence
With my RA
Sergi and his friend while playing
People watching the tennis game
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Street Painting
Today was a great day! And last week was a great week! I am going to start with today and in other post I will talk about other things that have happened to me.
So, today was Street Painting at Drake. The most colorful day at this university, where the students paint a street next to the library. The street was full of people and all of us finished the day with more paint in our clothes and bodies than in the street.
I was painting for more than three hours, I painted at La Fuerza Latina painting and I painted a lot of friends' clothes and faces.
I have wonderful time with my friends. There were also drinks and ice creams for free. But the moment of the shower appeared and it was hard to take off all the painting from my hair. I think I am going to have it all this week.
So, today was Street Painting at Drake. The most colorful day at this university, where the students paint a street next to the library. The street was full of people and all of us finished the day with more paint in our clothes and bodies than in the street.
I was painting for more than three hours, I painted at La Fuerza Latina painting and I painted a lot of friends' clothes and faces.
I have wonderful time with my friends. There were also drinks and ice creams for free. But the moment of the shower appeared and it was hard to take off all the painting from my hair. I think I am going to have it all this week.
Drake 2007 painting
People painting
Cammeo, Rita and Linda
My crazy hair and face
Taking a shower
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Arlington Cemetery
On Sunday I went to Arlington Cemetery. I saw the change of guard, Arlington's house, president John F. Kennedy gravesite, the tomb of the unknowns, and most of the cementery in a tour by bus.
Kennedy's gravesite
Arlington's house
Arlington Cemetery
I think the change of guard happened when it was raining the most.
Kennedy's gravesite
Arlington's house
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