So it's now a month into the new year as well as the new semester.

So far, things have been both pleasant and busy. With the exception of the two tornado warnings, that is. My classes aren't bad at all, in fact I find several of them exciting. These would be Japanese, French and my Romantic English Literature class. Psychology hasn't really started to be interesting yet, but I'm sure it will be later on in the semester. Orchestra is, well, it's orchestra. If you've been in a musical ensemble, you understand what I mean by that short and sweet sentence. World Cultures is just plain boring. I thought I was done with high school level English classes. Sure, we go through books faster, but other than that, we don't do anything different than you would in a high school class. We even went over how to format things in MLA today! I should have been in the honors class. Too bad my grades weren't good enough for that.

With the coming of a new semester is the coming of new students, both entering "freshmen" and exchange students. I have a new I-Pal (a program where American students pair up with an exchange student and they hang out and do stuff together) and I think she may be from Korea or China or some other country over in that area (but not Japan because her name is most definitely not Japanese). So, I'm excited. I swear I'm going to do a better job at hanging out with her this semester that I did with Haruka!

I'm also continuing with the belly dancing classes and we're going to do a performance in April for the Spring Banquet. I'm keeping up with Yoga, too. I love having a fully functional gym so close to my "house."

So much excitement and it's only the first month of the spring semester!

The New Year and a New Semester: La nouvelle anee et un nouveau semestre

Well, here we are, 2008. And what a new year!

Resolutions: get out more, try talking to more people, worry less.

Reflection: why waste word count on that? It's just be too darned long. Overall, a good, but challenging year. And filled with some pretty awesome luck.

Well, this year has started rather interestingly. Let's see, I dyed my hair black, saw several old friends within a four day time period, was almost in a car wreck coming down from Keystone with Dad, and had a sticky situation about getting back up to UE from Lousiville. Let's just say that Lady Luck (or God, depending on how you look at it) is still with me. So thank you to the powers that be!

Anyway, I'm too tired to add in all the details.