Home again...

That fold-out couch in Lotte's room sleeps soooo nice! I'm realizing all over again how awful the one I have is, LOL... but yeah, what do you expect from Ikea...

Anyway, so where did I leave off? I went to the centrum with Lotte's mom and brother, and her mom is so nice - she bought me a new purse. I was looking at them and I picked one up, put it back, then went back to it again and said, "Misschien koop ik deze..." and she immediately snatched it from my hand and started marching to the counter, saying, "Dan krijg je hem van mij!" Haha... is that sweet or what? Anyway, so Lotte got home around 16.00 but then we didn't go to the Matrixx after all - we were tired and didn't feel like it. So we just hung out at her house and watched Idols and stuff. Alice is still in it, amazing... but I didn't agree with the decision to kick Ron out. I liked him, and I really felt that Erik should have been the unlucky one... he stank...

I've just realized something rather scary. That I'm probably going to graduate in spring 2005 instead of 2006. I was just checking my degree audit and I only have 4 more required classes for my major. Add a couple of major electives and a couple of GE things and Jess is done. Wow. I tend to forget that I'm not just over here hanging out with friends and having a good time - that these classes over here really are 'worth' something and they're not just to keep me busy. I've knocked off two major requirements and also a GE class without even realizing it. Of course, they don't show up yet - that won't happen until I've been home for a few months - but Albert Matheny has reassured me that I will indeed get the credit I think I'll get. Haha.

Anyway, so I changed my schedule slightly - removed one course and added two others. I have to register a week from tomorrow, and it now looks like this:

LIN 3201 Sounds of Human Language
LIN 3460 Structure of Human Language
MAC 1105 College Algebra
SYG 2430 Marriage and the Family
TSL 3370 Introduction to TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language)
PEN 1122 Swimming II

Total credits: 17. So yeah, sign language is gone (it would have fit, but 21 credits is just too heavy of a course load; I'd have to get special approval and all), but I've got space for it next semester. I really wanted to take the TESL course as soon as I could because teaching Wim has gotten me more interested in what a class like that would entail. (By the way, for those who don't know, I can pick up a TESL minor without taking any extra classes... I can swing it based only on linguistics classes... go me! LOL!) Like this, my schedule has several advantages... first, that I have extremely easy Tuesdays and Thursdays... second, that all my required classes are out of the way and I have more 'swinging room' next semester, and third, that I have eighth period free, so I can go hang out with the Dutch class... maybe audit it or something.

Cross your fingers that my Internet hangs on until Monday afternoon! LOL! I have to officially register online at 16.15... which means Dutch Present-Day Society will be skipped, but whatever. Stupid time difference. It's really 10.15 in the morning. Oh well. But if the Net does go down, mark my words... even you Americans will hear the explosion!

Okay, well, Internet Explorer has been kicking me off every five minutes, so I better highlight and copy this before I post it... and if you're reading it, then you know it's all worked out. LOL.

Hey, Tristan? When you finally get your butt down to Utrecht (LOL) can you take a look at my computer? I haven't installed anything new and I use Kazaa Lite so I shouldn't have spyware, but I've once again got weird toolbars and stuff in IE. You solved it for me last time, so... heel erg alsjeblieft??? LOL.