Revolution in the Classroom

So I have been telling you about this Scholars Program project that I applied for where three of us read the book Revolution and visit a seventh grade class once a week to discuss the book and assign homework and projects and what not. Well, Friday was the first day in the schools and it was so much fun! We have a group of 8 girls that are all very chatty and fun. All of them seemed very excited about reading the book, some had finished it and others were just dying to continue reading... I like that. I hope that this experience continues to be a positive one! :-)

Free Powder Day!

Moonlight Basin was nice enough to give everybody who works in the admissions office free ski passes yesterday. On top of free passes, they provided riding tours of the mountain and a complimentary breakfast of cinnamon rolls that were as big as my head! The day could not have been more perfect! It was snowing until about 11 and then the sun came out and it warmed up for perfect spring skiing weather! I skied for the second time in ten years and I nailed a tree-run which I was very excited about! I only really fell once and it was in powder up to my knees, so I didn't even feel it! Even the groomers had a few inches of powder on them!! Even though it was a weekend and a powder day, we never had to wait in line to be on a chair lift. That is one of my favorite parts about Moonlight. It's not crowded, always great snow, and they go out of their way to make your day awesome!

World Music

I realized, after reading through some of my entries, that I always talk about homework and extra-curricular activities but I have never really told you about any specific classes. Right now, I am in a world music class, which is one of my favorite classes this semester. In this class, we are studying all types of music from all over the world, focusing specifically in India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa, Indonesia, Latin America and Native America. We study everything from dance to instruments to theater and teaching practices, to religious music, music influences and past and present music. This class is not particularly difficult but it is interesting and I feel like I am learning a lot from it.

Tickets are booked!

So, over Spring break, my sister and I finally buckled down and booked our tickets to Europe. I am flying into Paris on May 18th and leaving from Venice on June 30th. I will spend one week in France, two weeks in England, a week and a half by myself doing what ever I want:-) (my mom's good friend lives in Norway so I might try to swing on up there!) and then two weeks in Italy with my sister. I am so excited! Booking the tickets was a disaster though. By the time we had our tickets booked and all straightened out, we had spent over 4 hours working on it. My advice now that I am smarter about all this = Call a travel agent before you purchase anything! they can walk you through what you want to do and then you can book the tickets yourself online, so you don't have to pay the fee for having someone else do it.
College is the time to travel! You have the freedom to be spontaneous and adventurous, PLUS, college students don't mind being broke (which is good because after a long expensive trip you will be!) Travel! Go on an adventure!

Snowed In

So, yesterday almost 500 of us gathered for my grandfathers funeral. It was a beautiful, warm spring day and the family all gathered at my Gramma's house afterwards. My cousin Britta and I were having so much fun hanging out with the family that we decided to stay the night in Billings and head back to Bozeman at the crack of dawn to make it back for classes this morning. Well, we made it to Park City (Just outside of Billings) to find ourselves in a white out, driving on slippery slush. We almost slid off the road. Two hours later, we were back at Gramma's, snowed in. My dad and siblings are driving back to Minnesota today and they also got snowed in, in North Dakota. Well, looks like I get to do homework today... and I have even better ways to procrastinate.

Life doesn't Stop

So, Spring break is not as relaxing as a thought it would be. While I am super glad that I don't have classes or work, guess where I am right now.... the library.. weird right? Well, my grandpa died this morning, so my mom left today to go to Montana, I have to miss the first part of next week for the funeral so I have extra work to do while I am here. But enough of the bad things....

Good things:

I brought my boyfriend home to meet my parents and so far so good!!!

I went to the Minnesota Science Museum yesterday and saw the King Tut exhibit and omni-theater movie and it was SO COOL!

The weather is getting warmer which means summer is coming!

My dad is taking us to Chino Latino tonight which could be the best restaurant in the world (but I haven't been to every restaurant so I can't judge)

My brother is home this whole week which is so cool because I never get to see him!

OK, enough procrastinating... I gotta at least get some work done while I am here:-)

SPRING BREAK

THANK GOODNESS SPRING BREAK STARTS TODAY!!!!!! I was beginning to get really crabby from how much I had to do homework and work and not play! but I have most of my homework done! (I will finish today) and I am already checked into the airport even though I am not leaving until tomorrow! I am so excited to be going home for break even though there is three feet of snow in Minneapolis and I am kinda over this whole snow thing!

Well I will do my best to keep writing... who knows how well I will do on that!