So I've got some great, great, fantastic, marvelous, miraculous, bombastic news! My bedding is not lost, but it has indeed been discovered. I was given my mailbox key today, so I checked my box, and lo and behold there were two notices demanding that I pick up my box as soon as possible. Hooray! Let us all rejoice and dance in the streets! I shall sleep upon down this evening. I might even skip bowling just so I can curl up with my down comforter and watch a movie. Now I just await Snowy's arrival. How delightful.
In other news, we have brilliant sunshine following yesterday's apocalyptic weather. Katie and I seriously thought we were going to drown some horrific flash floods, if we weren't battered to death by hail stones first. Today, however, has been lovely since I first woke up to a flood of sunshine. What more could I ask for? I don't know how well the Swiss are taking the mess our little storm brought in, in terms of leaves and dirt being everywhere. I saw a man sweeping the sidewalks this morning with great urgency. They don't like things to be messy... Oh yeah, did I mention that I also got stuck in a thunderstorm yesterday? I went with a girl from Minnesota (named Aliesha, sp?) so that she could buy an iron in downtown at Migros (which went quite smoothly). After we left the store though, the skies looked threatening once again. We definitely got stuck in a thunderstorm on our way back up the hill, and I definitely had all of my clothes soaked through once again. I've never heard thunder like this here; it cracked, it didn't just rumble. And there was a lot of it. It lasted a solid thirty or forty minutes. Anyway, I made it back in time for my Orientation Group Dinner, but I was pretty darn damp. I started getting used to it though. I think the moral of the story is that I need a better, sturdier umbrella.
In other news still, I registered for classes today and I signed up for my Academic Travel trip. I decided to pass on Stockholm because I heard the trip is rather unstructured. It's a trip open to about 30 people, and the professor lets everyone sort of do his/her own thing--there's a lot of free time. And it's really expensive because the cost of the trip doesn't cover transportation and food for the most part. Then I was torn between Sicily and Vienna/Salzburg, but after meeting the Italian Professor who will be leading the Sicily trip I decided to go for it. (Plus, I've already been to Salzburg...) The Professor is really nice, and the trip has been cut down to 16-20 students, so we'll be able to do more cool stuff. So I'm excited about it; I think I'm going to have a really good time. If you're all wondering why I didn't do Greece or something, that's because a lot of trips were already filled up as freshmen get last pick. I did get my first choices for classes though; I just have to meet with Professor Hale (my academic advisor) today at 3:00pm to discuss my schedule and get his stamp of approval. Here are the classes I will be taking:
Introduction to German with Professor Vadilonga, 8:30am, MWF
Marketing in a Global Context with Professor Adams, 9:40am, MWF
Western Civilization Part I with Professor Silver, 10:05am, TTh
College Algebra with Professor Prisner, 1:15pm, TTh
Writing in the Humanities with Professor Matthews, 2:50pm, TTh
I tried to get out of the English 100 class, but they wouldn't let me skip it. So I'm stuck with that. I'm not 100% sure I'll be in the College Algebra class, it depends on my math placement result from today. If I don't take that I might end up taking History of Math or something; I'm not really sure yet. I think I left my calculator at home... The Marketing class is required for a business major, so I figured I take it and feel out the topic. And I'm taking Western Civ Part I, since they gave me a credit for WesCiv2 because of AP Euro; that way I'll be finished with my history requirement. Most of these are required core classes; I'm just trying to get them out of the way.
So it's been an exciting day so far. I'm just taking a break now, since my meeting is still a little ways away. Can't wait to pick up my bedding! I miss and love you all!
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Hey Ari! This is Arsha if it doesn't show up anywhere else. Laurie told us about your blog. The second I heard about it I know what to expect. A summary of everything exciting going on during your days in the awesome land of Switzerland. From Bedding to too much baggage. Sounds like a great time! Anways, sounds like you guys brought some huge storms with you, have fun with them! I really am going to try and come visit, not only is there a few things i want there, I really wanna come to Switzerland again.
Have fun!
Arsha
arghh another thing, I don't have your e-mail so I guess I can't e-mail you even through this! If you could send em a e-mail to Arsha.Khamenehi@gmail.com that would be awesome :D I downloaded skype too now :D
ARI!! who is katie??? omgosh. i wish i were there with you. it sounds like wayyyy tooo much fun. You better start working! How's the food? email me! <3 btw have you talked to david lately. and you should be expecting another present from Erin LAuren and I. IN the mail soon.
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