First Week of Classes

First Week of classes:

This week, similar to every other week prior, flew by! It was the first week of classes and it went great! I’m enrolled in 5 classes:

Psychology Marriages and Families Worldwide: LOVE IT! We have to do 2 service hours a week for a project. I’m doing my service hours at the Raddlebarn Primary School in the nursery!

British Archaeology: From Rome to Britain: British teacher talks really fast….not going to be good.

Understand Business and Politics: Love the class cause I get to talk about my MANY opinions.

Intro to Film Studies: We watched portions of three different movies the first day of class. Enough said.

Drawing: Which I take a 30min bus ride to an old man’s house on the other side of Birmingham. There are 9 students in the class and we draw in his garden and in his studio! How cool!

After class was over on Thursday, 10:30am, my weekend started! Ashley and I took the 21 bus over to Harborne High Street. It’s a long street full of vintages shops, bookstores, yummy bakeries and café’s and more! We went into an Oxfam Bookstore. (Oxfam is one of the many charity shops along this high street; charity shops are very popular in Birmingham. Research oxfam.org.uk for more wonderful information about this GRRRREAT cause!)
Ashley and I were in the used bookstore for more than an hour. All the books in the store were donated by people in the area. The books are really inexpensive. The books that I bought are old hardcover books and very cool! I found old copies of: Beowulf, Oliver Twist, Canterbury Tales, Cinderella, Hamlet, and the Complete Plays of Bernard Shaw! I’m so excited! Although the walk back to tennis courts, about a 25 minute walk, sucked.

Thursday night we had a duvet film night with our British friends downstairs. We watched “Shaun of the Dead.” I LOVED IT! Last night was the end of Fresher’s Fest and we went out with a bang. It was a foam dance party at the Student Guild! It was a blast but all the foam made it very slippery and kind of icky, but it was still a fun fun time!

Today it’s really cold, windy and rainy! So I’m just staying in working on homework and hanging out. Later on tonight a bunch of our British friends and us are having another duvet film night and ordering some yummy pizza! OOH BABY!

Better go!

Cheers!
Kirsten