Spring Break Blues

Spring Break is only a few days away for us here at MSUM, and you can already feel the antisipation building to get outta here!

This week is full of midterms, final preparation for the break, and dreams of the warm, sandy beach of Florida, Mexico, or California. I have these dreams. Dreams of a sunny swim in the ocean. Walking along a beach as the sun sets (as cheesy as it sounds), and relaxing under a palm tree and let my mind drift away from school for a week.

Unfortionately, this dream is not one I can have, at least this year.

I have German class at Concordia next week while my friends sped time in Cabo, on a cruise, or in the mountains snowboarding their cares away. I want that!

Yes it is only one class all week, but its the fact of knowing I CAN"T sleep in, I HAVE to worry about school, and I CAN"T enjoy a litte free time.

Oh the frustration with Tri-College classes. Don't get me wrong, its a great program, but this no Spring Break thing bits a little. Maybe I can fullfill my dream next year by going on that cruise to the Bahamas, or visit family in California. We shell see.

I guess I can't complain too much because if it wasn't for my Tri-Colege classes at Concordia I wouldn't be going to Germany this summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deutschland, hier komme ich!

Stay Classy, and
Auf Wiedersehen

A Day in the Life of ME!

Today, I going to talk about 24 hours in the life of me, as a college student. I do want to say first and foremost I'm taking on all of these things and have realized what I'm about to talk to you about is all my doing. It is stressful as I will talk about, but this is not the typical student experience. I want to express how a student like myself may feel and expereince MSUM!

Sunday:
 This is the start of my school week, with reading I have to do for Monday classes. I bury myself in an article about colonialism in Africa and its affects on the world today. I can't help but wonder how such inequality was believe to be acceptable back then. After 20 pages of this article, I find myself working on my German homework, trying to figure out a puzzle, completely in German of course. I finish that and move on to more reading, this time about the background behind the state of Israel. i ask myself how important this country is to the world safety or destruction in the coming decades, but i continue. Bedtime happens to be around midnight.

Monday
Alarm goes off at 7:00 this morning, like most days. I get to class for German by 8:30, spend an hour and 10 minutes going over new vocabulary and the EU and Germany's influence in it, than off to MSUM's campus. I spend the next few hours reading more, this time from my Africa Textbook, dealing with Africa in WWII and the growing revolutions that took place then. Of to class by 12:30, to sit in a role playing history class, to laugh, to enjoy, and to instruct them on "proper" Ming China meeting etiquette. by 1:30 I walk into Africa in World history and take notes and discuss the reading for the class period. A meeting with my professor about my Model UN speech I'm working on, than its time to go home.

Next its time for homework. I had an article review and response to write. The article was about making social studies more enjoyable and understandable for your students. It also discussed many methods of doing this, which were very beneficial for me to learn as a future educator. Next came German, again. I worked my way through a computer program used to teach it, did some more reading and hit the hay by around midnight.


I hope this small sampling can help any of you still wondering what you life might be like as a student at MSUM, or any other university.

Time to go out and give a tour!

Stay Classy, and
Auf Wiedersehen