classes

So I just finished my first week of class. It was a really good class! The way classes work is we have one course for two weeks. This one is called sustainable community development. We have finished half of the class and we will do the other half after we get back from Samoa. Mick Duncan is our professor for that class and if you haven’t heard of hum m you should look him up online. He’s a great speaker with lots of stories that really made the class interesting. During the week the professor lives at the Old Convent with us and he is around pretty much all the time. It’s definitely a different experience eating lunch and dinner with your prof after class. We have class in the mornings from 9-12 and then again at night from 7-9. So we have all afternoon to do the readings and other homework. It’s a pretty crazy schedule, but nothing like real college. Sorry for those of you in real school, who can’t do their homework with 24 of your classmates in the same house with the most gorgeous view out every window and a personal chef. Not to mention instead of getting colder, it’s getting warmer here! I was sitting out in the sun today and it was amazing and warm! It’s still cold indoors, however. We’re having a swing dance session tonight! And line dancing on Thursday. This is reading week, by the way. That means we are all doing the course readings prior to our classes so that there is less to do during the week of class and the profs can just expect us to have read most of the material. I mean hey, we are actually taking a 4 credit class in two weeks, it’s gonna be intense. Later today I met head over to a lavender farm and eat lavender/honey ice cream! Yummy! Be jealous.