I didn’t write yesterday because when too many people are in the computer lab, the internet doesn’t work, and I was getting really fustrated. Anyways, yesterday, I had three classes, all of which are incredibly amazing! First, I had European Literature. The books I will be reading in there are amazing! One of them, The Name of the Rose even has passages in Latin, because it is about Rome! I’m super excited! All of the books have this theory of “ONE” and “OTHER”. It means, if you are the majority, the superpower in a society, you become the “ONE”, and if you are the minority, or the weaker group in society, you are always the “OTHER”. For example, women are the “other” in society, because we are dominated by men. Whatever, the same goes for Race, Sexual Orientation, and Religions affiliation. And in this class, all the books we are reading, are from the point of view of the “other”, so we get to see a situation, from the opposite side, as we have seen in the past. Its really interesting, the first book we are reading is Anne Frank. We are going to Amsterdam this weekend, so I will actually see her house!
Cool piece of information: During World War II, Nazi’s took over this castle, the one I am living in! That’s why it wasn’t blown up in the war, THEY LIVED HERE! Scary huh? Also, there is this beautiful church down the street, and we found out that it is fairly new, because the original one was blown up in the war. I am surrounded by history, every little thing means something here, its hard to take in sometimes! I forget where I am!
My next class was Intercultural Communication. This class facinates me too! It is a four-hour long class, but it went by sooo fast. We had an interesting discussion, and then watched a documentary on Amish Country in America. I never made the connection that the Amish were Dutch, DUH! The video was half in dutch, half in English, and my dutch-speaking teacher was trasnslating the Dutch for us! And it was so funny because whenever they would speak in English, she’d translate it into English, not realizing that it was already English! It was so funny. We made fun of her, and she laughed too!! Everyone here has a great sense of humor.
And finally, I had Rennaissance and Reformation Thought! This class is going to be my hardest, but my favorite I think. My professor is young, not more than 25, he teachers college in a town about 45 mintues away in Nijmaegan. He is getting married in March, and going on a honeymoon, so we have to have Guest Lecturers during those weeks. He’s so cute though, he has a thick accent, but he really knows his stuff. In class, we talked about the history of Europe and how the countries each came to be! Its amazing! I love that stuff. We learned about the Roman Empire and how and why it fell. After that class, I am considering a minor in History as well. Maybe not right away, but something I can definitely see myself getting into.
At night, we all went to Sophies, the bar on campus. I had a heineken for 1 Euro. It was really fun though, just about everyone came, we sat on couches, talked, played cards, I read a little of my Anne Frank book. They have these awesome things here, that I got at Sophies! They are called Kinder-Surprises! It is a chocolate egg, and inside is a toy! Its Brilliant!!!!! HAHAHA. I guess they are german! They are so cool! That’s pretty much everything! The weather is perfect! Just warm enough that I don’t need a coat. Just a sweatshirt! Its wodnerful!
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