03 September, 2009

the school update


today is my last day of school for the week. phew. i'm exhausted!

and next week, i have monday and tuesday off.

the CSU school system has had to enforce a bunch of furlough days throughout the semester due to budget cuts. it's pretty insane. but a 4 day weekend won't be too shabby.

so here's the rundown on my tuesday/thursday classes:

french: my first day of french class - beginning french class - was conducted entirely in...what else...french. oh my gosh, it was so overwhelming. but it's gonna work! i can tell! my book for that class was $200 though. $200?!?! so ridiculous.

ballet: i have 10 minutes to get from french to ballet. it's a mile across campus. no joke. so that's pretty exhausting. and sweaty. if you follow me on twitter, you've already heard about all the sweating.

painting: i have 20 minutes to eat and get from ballet to painting all the way back to the other side of campus. that's another mile. painting is my most overwhelming class. i wish levi could do it for me. it felt like more of a foreign language than french. Lord, help me this semester!

yesterday was my first active day of my monday/wednesday classes - tennis and jazz.

one hour of tennis, including lots of drills and running.

followed by two hours of dance.

and you guessed it! i have 10 minutes in between those classes, and it's about a thousand degrees in the sun playing tennis before heading to the humid dance studios where i feel like i'm breathing sweat. so sore today.

part of me is wondering what on earth i was thinking. this semester might just kill me.

but i know i can do it. i know it!

but just in case you don't hear from me for a long time, it's most likely because i'm dead.

(p.s. last day to enter the giveaway)

26 comments:

  1. your classes sound so great, ballet, jazz and a painting classes?! i'm just stuck with stupid maths.

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  2. Sounds like fun even if it kills you! What are you majoring in? I'd love to take french and ballet
    (painting I wouldn't not do so good at)

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  3. Ouch! $200 for a textbook. Have you tried looking online for it? I can regularly get my textbooks for less than half the new price through online shops (half.com and amazon are good places to start)

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  4. my boyfriend is fluent in french-he went to a french school until he finished highschool-its a good thing to know; i would love to learn it, although i have no excuse, seeing as he can speak it. maybe i should take advantage of him and have him teach me some lol

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  5. oh you are so lucky...I miss dancing so very much! I hope that you love this semester, french was so hard for me!!!

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  6. Oh yay! This is so exciting and I'm sure you're overwhelmed but you'll fall in to a routine! Enjoy it. I miss school so much. I can't wait to go back for more.

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  7. ballet, tennis, jazz, and miles of walking/jogging in between? girl, you're nuts! good luck!

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  8. Well despite the hike in between classes, it sounds like school is amazing! I wish I could study French, ballet and jazz all day :)

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  9. 200??? Oh my gosh! That is just crazy...

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  10. wow, sounds like you're going to be in great shape by the end of the year!

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  11. you can do it! i have the same kind of crazy schedule at CSUF right now, with the 10 minutes to dash a mile or so across campus. we have the furlough days too, they are cutting so much and increasing fees, including the text book fees. i feel your pain!

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  12. Such a drama queen--you will be fine!

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  13. Oh, your classes sound like so much fun! I feel like a lot of my college experience was wasted on my youth. I had so many resources being an art director but not enough experience to really know my own point-of-view.

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  14. We see you're really busy, take care!

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  15. wow! i am so jealous of your classes. ballet, french? so lovely. good luck getting to and fro. the fall is almost here!

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  16. wow what fun classes!! you are going to have a very active semester!

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  17. oh my gosh. it sounds hard {and sweaty} but your classes sound AMAZING. can you teach me some of the french?? ooo and the jazz. heck, everything! it sounds brilliant. good luck jasmine... i'm sure you will do great!

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  18. Wow! Sounds more like some kind of liberal arts boot camp! Hope you can stick it, cos it all sounds pretty interesting to me. Good luck!

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  19. Oh my goodness! I thought of you yesterday, playing tennis in the heat. Glad you haven't died yet. PLEASE DON'T, ok? :)

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  20. i do not feel bad for your sweating because; #1 i'm in Phoenix where it is onemillionandthree degrees. #2 you have a dream class schedule. :)

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  21. why does school for you sound so fantastic!?! it's more fun than anything (: You're gonna be great, and I can't wait to see a painting you do! xoxo

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  22. yeah those classes sound amazing. i would kill to take ballet again! what is your major again? i must have missed that somewhere along the way...

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  23. im so excited to hear about your painting class! you will be fine!!!! just experiment...

    and if anything else approach it more as a relaxing part to your day rather than a hectic one... (and hopefully ur professor will play music)... that way it will seem a little less overwhelming and will reflect in ur overall painting.

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  24. i am so jealous of your class schedule! i would kill to be taking french and painting....

    instead i am stuck taking dental anatomy and radiography!

    keep us updated on your school year... can't wait for you to wow us with your french skills!

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  25. That's a crazy schedule, but your classes sound awesome. I wish I could take some fun things...

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