My morning began by waking up at 6:45 a.m. I knew that my class was at 8 a.m. but I wasn't exactly sure of the location and I didn't want to be late (I couldn't sleep anyway). I left at about 7:05 and soon discovered that it would only take me 15 minutes to get there. I waited until we were finally let into the room. Beginner kayaking is a class only held once a week on Mondays. This time will be used for instructions on how to kayak, safety, etc. There are about 90 people in that class, but we will be split into four groups, and each of these groups will have a different weekend in April. On that weekend, we will get to Kayak on the Coosa river and go camping in tents on Friday and Saturday! I'm so excited. The last time I went camping was when I was about nine- you could say it was an interesting experience. It began to pour down rain at about midnight while my family was in the tent, and Andrew had eaten way to many hotdogs. Andrew threw up in the middle of the night, all around my head. Thankfully I was so deep in sleep that I never woke up! I bet it was a rough night for my parents though, so we never went camping again. Now over ten years later it's time to give it another shot ;)
After kayaking class, biology was at 11 a.m. When I got into the classroom of about 300 people, I noticed that there were a few things sitting on a table. My organismal biology teacher had brought her pet corn snake, Corny, to class! She passed him around for everyone to hold. She says that she brings in organisms quite often (I can't wait to see what she brings next!). She was so enthusiastic and you could really tell that she loves her job. She was awesome to listen to and I'm excited for her class!
Then, I had to hurry and go to my Spanish class. It's been my smallest class so far- only 30 people! Whoop whoop! The teacher told us that he came from Africa, and that his first language was French, his second language was Spanish, and then his third language was English. So when he speaks in English he has a French accent with a little bit of Spanish. Confusing right? So it doesn't do him much good to speak English to us anyway. Everyone kept looking at each other during class and laughing because we had no clue what he was saying! I still can't help but to like him though- I can tell that he has a good sense of humor and really wants us to learn so I can definitely deal with the language barrier! He went around asking, "Te Llamas?" and we were supposed to say, "Me Llamo __" whenever it was my turn I said, "Me llamo Devin" he said, "Como Estas?" so I said, "Muy bien, y tu?" he suddenly got all excited that I knew this small amount of basic spanish and started talking really fast in spanish to where I had no idea what he said, but I know that he was asking me a question. I said, "uhhhh...." and the whole class bursted out in giggles! I think it's gonna be fun.
At lunch, I was waiting for my roommate, Leigh Ellen, to come eat with me so I was sitting by myself for a little while. A guy came right beside me and said, "Do you mind if I sit here?". I'd never seen this guy before. His name was Andrew, and we total strangers talked for about 30 minutes! And surprisingly it wasn't awkward at all. I wish I had the courage to just go up to someone that was sitting by themselves at lunch and bring up a conversation. I liked the company, and he was fun to talk to!
After lunch, I headed to my last class of the day... psychology. My teacher told us that he was the happiest man on campus and loves his career! There's about 90 people in the class but on Fridays we split in groups of 30. He seems like he'll be very interesting. I'm just so glad to have teachers this semester that care and are interesting.
Tomorrow I only have one class thankfully :)
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