Fun fact for today: I usually have lunch on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with Andrew, Robbie, Tommy, and Jing at 1:45...but I showed up at Foco at 12:45 today. So now I have a good solid 30 minutes to wait for them and I've already finished eating (by myself, mind you). Ah well, got some reading done in the mean time.

IMPORTANT NEWS: ERIN IS COMING TO VISIT.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am so excited that I can't even contain myself. I have to stop from telling too many stories about her and gloating to everyone that she is coming, I am just that pumped.

I have a feeling that this week is going to be a lot of sleep deprivation. I've gotten in the habit of writing out my schedule hour by hour every day to insure that I don't forget anything and it makes me realize how little time I have for random stuff. I still manage to fit in watching the NCAA finals or YouTube-ing awesome songs in Damaris's room, but I definitely spend a lot of my time doing work.

Recap of classes thus far:
CHEM 6--I love this class but I feel bad cause I don't do the reading on time since there is no way for him to check that we did the reading or problems (unlike my other classes). The prof is really into chemistry and a million times better than last term's. He answers questions and had the majority of people's names memorized on the first day (each teacher gets a roster with our ID pictures and names...but the class is like 120 people so he is CRAZY for already knowing so many people). I'm in Julia's class again and Karoline is with us too! Yaaaay. There are also a lot of random people in there so it's fun to watch people file in.

We had our first lab yesterday and it's funny how little things have changed. This time Jing is my lab partner and already that makes it super fun. Plus she is a million times more competent than my last partner. I have the same TA, the same two guys are across from me, and the same two girls are behind me. Only difference is that I'm not sleep deprived at 8 in the morning and just missing out on valuable homework time at 2.

GERMAN 2--I love this class! We have this method of teaching at Dartmouth called drill (it's only for languages) where you get in groups of 8ish and there is a drill master, a Dartmouth student who is fluent in the language and trained in this special Rassias method. Essentially they say a sentence like "Ich liege auf dem Bett" then say something like "der Tisch...Ich liege auf dem Tisch." Then they say a different word, point to someone, and you have to repeat the sentence, correctly changing it to fit the word they prompt you with. It's a lot cooler than I'm making it sound haha. But we do that 4 times a week for 50 minutes each and it's just a nice break from work. The class itself is so unstressful that I really like it. The professor is so cute and funny; she's slightly awkward but so into teaching that it makes up for it haha.

SEMINAR--This is the class that I'm not the fondest of. While I love love love having a class with Natalia, I am not a fan of 4 hours of work every night cause we have to watch a movie and then read 4 chapters in various books that need to be found. And then we don't even discuss in class and she just talks for 2 hours...kinda boring. The kids seem cool but we have like zero time to talk so I don't even know their names. I guess after having the best writing class/professor last term, it's hard to go back to something like this. And maybe also because we're starting with Richard III. WHICH IS SO BORING. Twelfth Night and Macbeth will be much better I imagine.

One day I will post about spring break...but for now, suffice it to say that I absolutely loved it!! Amazing hiking, views, and people. Can't get much better than that :)