Very exciting news *jumping up and down with grin covering my face*!!!!!! We found the most amazing grocery store yesterday. It is located, oddly, in the basement of a department store. You may be thinking, bug deal Kate, another grocery store. This is where I would wave my finger in your face and say "no, very big deal." That would be because I found some of the most amazing things. There were blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, pre-cored pineapple, oreos, swiss-cake rolls, baby spinach, and sour cream. The discovery of these things was enough to send us happily skipping down the isles. This is biggest grocery store that we have found, and it has the most variety. As an added bonus, its all in one place. Usually, I would have to go to multiple stores to find these items, but not at Billa, they are all in one place. Even better, it is several blocks closer to my apartment (which means my arms are significantly less likely to fall off my body from the heavy bags). Its a tad more expensive, but for the aforementioned reasons, I feel it is worth it.
Fast forward to today. I had my first midterm. This test is a full two weeks before the designated "midterm week," but my prof decided to move it up. Her reasoning was that the European Human Trafficking and Slavery awareness week is the same week as midterms. She did not want us to have multiple midterms, and speakers to attend, and documentaries to see all in one week. Thoughtful, I thought so. This also meant that there was less material covered on the midterm. Woot. I studied like mad because it was an essay exam, so I would have to recall the information, not just fill in a bubble. I felt very prepared, and I think I did alright (but I am an awful judge). There were only two essay questions and she wanted no more than one or two pages. Thus, it did not take terribly long.
In my other classes nothing terribly exciting happened. Just more lectures. I really miss the discussion based classes at Gustavus. I don't learn very well in a solid lecture environment, which regrettably, is how all of my classes are structured.
The next few weeks will be busy and involve more studying and less exploring. I have an Italian test on Monday, my law mid-term on Friday (scheduled on a make-up day, grrrr...), media mid-term the following Monday, and Italian mid-term on Wednesday. Plus I have two papers that I need to start working on. One is only 2000 words, so hopefully it won't take long, the other is 12 pages (still nothing compared to my 20+ pages for Rhetorical Criticism last semester). One thing is for sure, will all the research, typing, and studying, both my trusty laptop and myself will be fried at the end of these two weeks.
I leave you with inspirational words of Sam Ewing (former White Sox player c.1949) that I have often read during times when I feel like there are simply not enough hours in the day: "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." I intend to be the one who turns up my sleeves.
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