JCU

I am currently between classes chilling in the computer lab at JCU. I had my Italian 310 class, the class I am easily the most worried about, earlier today. It was supposed to be let out at 3:30, but we got out closer to 3 because it was a first class. Although I am worried about it, I feel a whole lot better now because the only people in my class (that showed up today, at least) were five Notre Dame kids who are at my level, one ND kid who took one more semester than us (though he may have to transfer out because it is a similar class to what he took last year), and one kid from University of Illinois-Chicago who didn't seem like he was too far past our level, if at all. The classwork is a bit daunting, though: we have two 1200 word essays to write, and the biggest Italian essay I wrote last year was probably about 700 words. Darn that.

So now I have a wait until 6:45 for my History of Economic Doctrines class that runs until 8 PM. I am thinking of switching out of it, because this is quite a wait. If I am allowed to take 3 classes here for my Italian minor, then I may take a class called Italian Cinema Since 1945, which runs from 5:15-8 on Wednesdays only. That way I would only have one class on Monday from 2:15-3:30, and my break on Wednesday would only be from 3:30-5:15 instead of running to 6:45. We'll see if I get approval from ND about that one.

As far as non-school things today, it has been very low key. Woke up early, got some caffe, then read a whole lot of a book about the building of the Vatican. It is a quick read, and it is not too information dense. Other than that, we are planning a trip to Venice for Thursday/Friday/Saturday. I booked the hostel last night. Color me excited, because that is my favorite city.