School has already started !
I have already have 2 days of school although my first class of civil responsability was cancelled. Nonetheless, I had the chance to have a class of criminal law, procedural law and international public law. The first one was fun, the professor looks like my librarian when I was younger and she was so nice. The procedural law class seems boring, but the teacher seems interesting enough. As for internation public law, I could have cried when the class ended. This is the class I was the most excited for and it was a huge disappointment. Like almost everyone from my class, I couldn't understand most of what the teacher was saying. He had a weird accent and everytime he mentionned important names, all the class was struggling to guess how it was spelled. Some girl asked him to write the names to the blackboard and we saw how he wrote, we decided it wasn't worth it as we could not read it. This is a new professor at my faculty and he asked for one big paper [about 15 to 20 pages on a specic topic] which is a lot as we're first years and don't even know how to do his mini-mémoire. Afterwards, people tried to switch classes, but it was impossible; the other classes were fulled ! So, we're stucked with him, I hope he'll enunciate more in the next class.At my residence, we're organising a Frost Week next week. I live in an international residence, so some of the residents are only in Ottawa for one semester. This Frost week is like the Frosh/101 Week that we had in September, but it will be for our residence only. I'm organizing a kind of Supermarket Sweeptstake on Tuesday and a International Pot-Luck for Sunday. I can't wait for that week to unfold. There will also be a Senator's hockey game, a Scavenger's Hunt, a Snow Day including skating on the Canal, making snowmen and snowballs fights, a supper opened to everyone in the rez and more... This is going to be an amazing week. I'm planning to participate in most activities except the Sens' game as I'm not a fan of hockey.
The choir has the first 2006 show on Sunday. Now, I really have to sing more. Since I lost my voice during the holidays, my voice is squeaky at notes I used to reach without troubles, so I'll stretch it. It's already better than 1 week ago, but I'd like it to be better even if Sunday is really close...
As for reading, I just finished Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides and I'm shocked. I don't think the book deserved the Pulitzer because Jeffrey Eugenides always get lost somewhere in the plot as if there wasn't one or if I had one, he forgot it for a couple of chapters. Then, he ended up with over 500 pages; most of which should have been edited. If you take alone the story of Calliope or Cal, this is not only disturbing, but really surprising. To see her/his life and to try to put you in the same place is almost impossible. I remember how I was at that age and there is no way I could have accepted something like that if someone albeit over-qualified might have told me on who I truly was. On a entirely different topic, the Dilbert was a hoot like always. I love to read Scott Adam's strips; they are so hilarious.
I even practiced some of my German by going over my notes from my last class and talking aloud in German. I also went to the library to check out some books on german grammar, so I could get better. The only bad thing is that I can't audit a German class as it's impossible to audit a language class. I would gladly add the German class to my schedule, but I can't because I'm a first year in law. I was really frustrated as I could make it to all the classes in one section and that section was not full. They told me I could go to the Goethe Institute which is kinda expensive and far from where I live. I guess I'll take an intensive class during the summer, so I can study in a more advanced class this fall.
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