It's celebration time all round. School's starting up again and I feel good. I'm still trying to figure out my schedule though. I've dropped one class so far, so I could fit in one I wanted more, and I'm consdering that I'll drop another.
I was signed up for Religions of East Asia. It's a course on Taoism (or Daoism which can't be the name since the Chinese do not voice their consonants), Shintoism, Confucism, Buddhism, and Korean Shamanism. Which is all really interesting I'm sure, and I may still take the course. Hopefully, the prof will be more interesting than the prof that is teaching this term seemed the first day.
I'm also currently signed up for Ancient Greek. Which is all well and good, except, it seems that the students in that class are way behind in some areas comparted to the students in the New Testament Greek class that I was in. And so (oun) I'm considering switching back. It seems silly to me take a step back, although, because I spent last week making sure I knew what had been done during the first term in Ancient Greek, I'm a bit ahead of the New Testament Greek class as well. Oh well!
Meanwhile, the book that I'm writing continues to grow. Maybe in a year or two, I'll have the 60,000 words necessary to publish. :)
This is the first term (of 11 started so far) where I've decided I didn't want to take the course that I'm in at the beginning of the term. I switched back to New Testament Greek today. It's closer to something necessary for my program (NT Greek is more like the Byzantine Greek that was used during the middle ages).
The whole Religion in East Asia was also going nowhere fast. So much for that. Medieval Church History is, of course, closer to my program. The fun part is that my new schedule has only one prof on Tuesdays and Thursdays: Father James Wahl of St. Jerome's. All my classes on those days are with him, and they are at St. Jerome's.
Tomorrow night, my church has a speaker from Seattle visiting. It should prove interesting. I heard him on Sunday night, and he's the kind of speaker who just doesn't stop, and you don't really want him to. I'm looking forward to it.
Tests have started already this term in my language classes. The five minute Hebrew quiz was pretty straight forward. Even though it was open book, I didn't really use my books. Just looked up whether 'house' was masculine or feminine.
My first Greek Test is on monday. It's a little harder (and worth a lot more), and I'm not completely sure what to expect. I'm guessing the tests get harder in the second term...
In non-news, today is the day I celebrate my engagement. No, I'm not engaged, and I'm not married. But I do hope to be one day, and I see no harm in celebrating something before it happens.
It's freezing today. I walked home an hour and a half ago and my legs still haven't thawed out. And I have to leave in anouther hour and a half or so. :(
Got my marks from last term today. I'm not sure if it is that arts is easier, or I'm just plain working harder, or both, but my average from last term is higher than any final mark I ever got in my first undergrad. I hope I don't let this go to my head and let myself slack off...
One week into term 2
by alan on Fri 10th Jan 2003 1:50AM
It's celebration time all round. School's starting up again and I feel good. I'm still trying to figure out my schedule though. I've dropped one class so far, so I could fit in one I wanted more, and I'm consdering that I'll drop another.
I was signed up for Religions of East Asia. It's a course on Taoism (or Daoism which can't be the name since the Chinese do not voice their consonants), Shintoism, Confucism, Buddhism, and Korean Shamanism. Which is all really interesting I'm sure, and I may still take the course. Hopefully, the prof will be more interesting than the prof that is teaching this term seemed the first day.
I'm also currently signed up for Ancient Greek. Which is all well and good, except, it seems that the students in that class are way behind in some areas comparted to the students in the New Testament Greek class that I was in. And so (oun) I'm considering switching back. It seems silly to me take a step back, although, because I spent last week making sure I knew what had been done during the first term in Ancient Greek, I'm a bit ahead of the New Testament Greek class as well. Oh well!
Meanwhile, the book that I'm writing continues to grow. Maybe in a year or two, I'll have the 60,000 words necessary to publish. :)
All done.
by alan on Tue 14th Jan 2003 2:58AM
This is the first term (of 11 started so far) where I've decided I didn't want to take the course that I'm in at the beginning of the term. I switched back to New Testament Greek today. It's closer to something necessary for my program (NT Greek is more like the Byzantine Greek that was used during the middle ages).
The whole Religion in East Asia was also going nowhere fast. So much for that. Medieval Church History is, of course, closer to my program. The fun part is that my new schedule has only one prof on Tuesdays and Thursdays: Father James Wahl of St. Jerome's. All my classes on those days are with him, and they are at St. Jerome's.
Tomorrow night, my church has a speaker from Seattle visiting. It should prove interesting. I heard him on Sunday night, and he's the kind of speaker who just doesn't stop, and you don't really want him to. I'm looking forward to it.
Study
by alan on Sat 18th Jan 2003 8:05PM
Tests have started already this term in my language classes. The five minute Hebrew quiz was pretty straight forward. Even though it was open book, I didn't really use my books. Just looked up whether 'house' was masculine or feminine.
My first Greek Test is on monday. It's a little harder (and worth a lot more), and I'm not completely sure what to expect. I'm guessing the tests get harder in the second term...
In non-news, today is the day I celebrate my engagement. No, I'm not engaged, and I'm not married. But I do hope to be one day, and I see no harm in celebrating something before it happens.
Cold.
by alan on Thu 23rd Jan 2003 7:08PM
It's freezing today. I walked home an hour and a half ago and my legs still haven't thawed out. And I have to leave in anouther hour and a half or so. :(
Got my marks from last term today. I'm not sure if it is that arts is easier, or I'm just plain working harder, or both, but my average from last term is higher than any final mark I ever got in my first undergrad. I hope I don't let this go to my head and let myself slack off...
Oh, well, back to studying.
Cool.
by alan on Thu 30th Jan 2003 5:10PM
The weather has warmed up. At least, the robins I saw yesterday would suggest so.
In less happy news, I have a mid-term tomorrow. I really should go study. :)