Wednesday, Oct. 01, 2003

ladidadidi

Yesterday, Mikhail Gorbachev spoke here at our school . . . I had to leave my class a half hour early and run more than I'm capable of to see him, but it was worth it. I figure an opportunity like this is likely to come up only once in a lifetime, so screw all of my other obligations.

I dropped my french class, so theoretically I should have a lot less work to do, but you know i really dont' think I do, because 1. I never really did any work for my french class anyway and 2. I've occupied myself a lot more with death penalty and environmental work, which is all going pretty well this semester. As for french . . . There are a lot of reasons why I dropped it. I felt like I had just hit a wall. He expected us to read several 300+ page novels in a language I don't even speak (I barely know french well enough to read a novel like that . . .but joual? i.e. québecois) in a matter of weeks. I managed to read half of the easiest novel we're reading this semester, with the help of an english translation, in the same amount of time. I feel like my french will really not improve much at this point without actually going to a french-speaking country. Which is what I'm planning on doing this summer for a few weeks.

On friday I'm leaving for Chicago for fall break. I've never been there before. I've never been to the midwest at all before. To tell you the truth, I've never really had much desire to go to this region of the country, but Chicago should be exciting. I wonder if its exactly like Carl Sandburg described it.

Well, that's about all I can think of to say . . .someone told me that I should update more often, even if what I'm saying is just my mundane daily activities. I'll see what I can do.