Friday, January 23, 2015
My Apologizes...
I have, unfortunately, not been keeping up with this blog as well as I would have hoped. My goal is to post about interesting events in general rather than like week by week. So enjoy!
Monday, January 5, 2015
Pre-Departure
Ever since selecting the University of New Orleans as my school to attend within the National Student Exchange I have been busy: making sure the classes I take at UNO will transfer back to USC, making sure that UNO will accept the prerequisites I have from USC, and making sure that the classes I get approved will schedule without any issues! Coordinating the class equivalents was by far the most difficult thing to accomplish due to the fact that I am still not able to enroll in three of my classes, which start less than a week from now...
On top of this, telling everyone that you won't see them for at least four months, if not more. :'(
Plus being worried about finding friends and fitting in there (basically being a freshman all over again), along maintaining friendships that I have at my home campus! How to balance school work, exploration, new friends, home friends (text, call, viber, skype), and sleep? And most important, staying true to myself while further developing.
Now all of this may should hectic or saddening, as it should; but it wasn't all bad by any means! Actually, Dan Harper, the National Student Exchange liaison has been super helpful with figuring out classes, and calming as his says not to worry if the classes won't add yet. Also on the plus side tuition, scholarship, housing, meal plan, and other things have been very easy!
AND... The excitement that I have had thinking about going to New Orleans for a semester has made the few difficulties seem negligible! Thinking about eating cajun food everyday (priorities), seeing the architecture, attending the festivals, and just the possibility of learning so much through embracing a completely different culture!
As of this moment, I am 3 hrs and 28 mins from my departure to NEW ORLEANS!!!
(I went to bed hours sooner on Christmas Eve!)
*DISCLAIMER: due to the stream of consciousness which these entrees will be typed (and lack of revisions), I am NOT responsibility any grammatical errors used--including but not limited to misspelling, run on sentences, common splices, "text typed emotions" i.e. smiley face", jumbled up thought process, unclear sentences, poor sentence structure, words wrongly used, slang, words that do not exist or placing shame on the English language in another way. However, I can assure you that no fowl language or inappropriate topics will be used in the creation of my blog updates.*
On top of this, telling everyone that you won't see them for at least four months, if not more. :'(
Plus being worried about finding friends and fitting in there (basically being a freshman all over again), along maintaining friendships that I have at my home campus! How to balance school work, exploration, new friends, home friends (text, call, viber, skype), and sleep? And most important, staying true to myself while further developing.
Now all of this may should hectic or saddening, as it should; but it wasn't all bad by any means! Actually, Dan Harper, the National Student Exchange liaison has been super helpful with figuring out classes, and calming as his says not to worry if the classes won't add yet. Also on the plus side tuition, scholarship, housing, meal plan, and other things have been very easy!
AND... The excitement that I have had thinking about going to New Orleans for a semester has made the few difficulties seem negligible! Thinking about eating cajun food everyday (priorities), seeing the architecture, attending the festivals, and just the possibility of learning so much through embracing a completely different culture!
As of this moment, I am 3 hrs and 28 mins from my departure to NEW ORLEANS!!!
(I went to bed hours sooner on Christmas Eve!)
*DISCLAIMER: due to the stream of consciousness which these entrees will be typed (and lack of revisions), I am NOT responsibility any grammatical errors used--including but not limited to misspelling, run on sentences, common splices, "text typed emotions" i.e. smiley face", jumbled up thought process, unclear sentences, poor sentence structure, words wrongly used, slang, words that do not exist or placing shame on the English language in another way. However, I can assure you that no fowl language or inappropriate topics will be used in the creation of my blog updates.*
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