Classes

So. Pretty much all I do is school. Which means the only news I have is related to school. I'm sorry. However, I will try to give you the lowdown on my classes this semester:

-American Literature: Pretty much this is the hardest class I have ever taken in my life. For the test last week we had to identify the name and author of three passages we had read, identify the author of two passages we had not read, write two essays using information from everything we had read, and identify three dates chosen from a list of forty. In ninety minutes. It was probably the most stressful class I have ever taken. Also, American literature isn't really my favorite. Honestly, if it took people two hundred years to figure out what you were writing about, you made it too hard. I'll take Dickens over Melville any day.

-Literary Criticism and Analysis: Well, this class is pretty much a watered down version of A.P. English. The test is a little like American Literature though. Mostly we are learning about different types of literary criticism, like psychoanalysis or marxism. It's not fantastic, but it's not horrible either. Unfortunately, I have to get the basic classes out of the way before I can take the fun ones.

-Book of Mormon part II- I really enjoy this class. The teacher is, as one girl put it, "a doll." He's this really sweet grandpa with a love of dumb jokes. He has a talent for teaching, and the class is pretty interesting.

-Spanish 101: This class is every day. It does weird things to my mind because I leave for other classes and I'm trying to figure out how to talk to somebody in Spanish with my limited vocabulary until I realize that I can speak in English again. This class keeps me pretty busy because on top of studying I have to have about 2 tests, two hours of conversation, and one hour of lab every week. Thankfully the teacher is really sweet and does a good job of explaining things. I'm still pretty limited, but I'm getting better.

-Intro to Humanities: This class is much more my style. We sit in a lecture hall and learn about different kinds of art. So far we have done poetry, dance (from folk to modern), painting, and sculpture. Most of our homework involves going to things like dance performances or museum exhibits. I love just getting to sit there and soak up all the fun facts about these artists and styles.